Business screen magazine (1967)

rig tit off ttie llth International San Francisco Film Festival On October 20-29 ''r Dates for the II 111 annual San Francisco international Film Festival have now been confirmed by its directors and sponsor, the Greater San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. The festival will be held October 20-29 and will again be non-competitive. Its program includes competition, however, for sponsored and documentary motion pictures shown on the "Film as Communication" program. .Ml Festival activities will be held at the San Francisco Masonic Auditorium. They begin on a weekend evening and will present 1 8 feature motion pictures plus a special Friday first-night attraction. Stanley Mosk is general chairman for the 1967 event; Stewart Macondray. vice-president of W. A. Palmer Films in San Francisco, will direct the "Film as Communication" program. For entry details and forms contact iMr. Macondray at Palmer headquarters. 611 Howard Street in San Francisco. Entry closing dates have not yet been disclosed but further details will be carried in a subsequent issue. • * * * Leading Canadian Film Groups Sponsor National Awards Sept. 23 : Combined efforts of the Association of Motion Picture Producers and Laboratories of Canada, the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and the Directors' Guild of Canada are being made to promote high standards of film making in that country. Encouraged by recent federal government legislation on their behalf, the groups will help honor recent outstanding Canadian films and their makers at a special presentation during the Canadian Film Awards in Toronto on September 23rd. The competition has been modified as recommended by the producers" association. Panels in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa will adjudicate films in eight categories. Beyond the formal recognition given feature length pictures, experimental films, etc., awards will be given the best public relations, sales and promotion, sports and recreation, general information and films for television. The Canadian Cinematography Awards for both black and white and color cinematography will be judged by a panel of distinguished film makers in Toronto. Members of the Directors' Guild will select the best director and best editor. The Canadian Film Awards competition is sponsored by the Canada Foundation, the Canadian Association for Adult Education and the Canadian Film Institute. The presentation of awards, as last year, will be arranged by the Association of Motion Picture Producers and Laboratories of Canada. This Centennial year is regarded as especially noteworthy in the history of the program. • * « * University Film Producers to Meet in Vermillion Aug. 20-26 ir Theme of the 2 1 st annual conference of the University Film Producers Association, slated for the campus of the University of South Dakota at Vermillion, S.D. from August 20 to the 26th is "New Faces, New Facets." Sanford D. Gray, director of film production at the University is host for the meetings, which will bring together some 400 active and associate members of this scholastic film group. Dr. Raymond E. Fielding, president of UFPA, and Marshall Lovrien, I of the University of Iowa, are gram chairmen. As the leading organizatioi the U.S. concerned with film | duction and film instruction American universities, the assol tion's roster lists more than mi ber institutions. It recently nounccd the establishment of il annual scholarships for niotl picture studies. DeLuxe, Movielab Co-Sponsonl of a N.Y. "Career Fair" ExhiT ir To stimulate interest of yoij people in the motion picture zl television sciences, two of the il tion's largest professional fil processing organizations are sp soring a joint exhibit at the WCE TV Career Fair being held the fil two weeks in May in cooperatil with the New York City BoaT of Education. Movielab, Inc. and DeLu Laboratories. Inc. are join it hands to show in actual operati the machinery and equipment us in a motion picture film processi plant. Phases to be shown inclu printing, developing, editing, spli ing, cleaning, projection, chemii analysis, control, mechanics, ai maintenance of lab equipment. JET STOCK "T^OOTAGE *JET/PISTON/HIST0RICAL AIRCRAFT 35 MM/16 MM COLOR and BLACK & WHITE Free film provided to producers for authentic airline sequences UNITED AIR LINES Publicity Department Atlanta 523-5516 Chicago 726-5500 Denver 398-4535 Detroit 963-9770 Honolulu 510-171 Los Angeles New York Pittsburgh San Francisco Seattle 482-3300 922-5225 391-5152 397-2620 682-3731 Washington 737-6830 Write for catalog; tTNITED AIR LINES FILM LIBRARY Suite 230. Statler Center 900 Wilshire Boulevard Los Angeles. California 90017 ■Jet mockups for interior filming — New York City and Hollywood United Air Lines BUSINESS SCREEh