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‘A PIE IN THE SKY’:
10 MELLION DOLLARS
to foster Canadian feature films
By TED LEVERSUCH
The ten million dollars which is supposedly being offered by the Federal Government to aid the Canadian Film Industry, can be rather like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for almost every would-be feature film producer in this country. There are many film makers who are now sitting back patiently awaiting the day when the financing of their pet project will cease to be a problem. If the government aid ever does happen, the procedure will be something like Robin Hood in reverse, only the government will then rob the poor (public) and give to the rich (producers of sponsored documentaries and T.V. commercials). Who else has any Canadian track record for filming other than these people. All those waiting to jump on the bandwagon have heralded their praises to the press of the long awaited government gesture, in the attempt to bring about serious film making in Canada. Every hole in the wall producer and Bolex owner can now see a new horizon with Canada at least having a feature film industry of its own. Don’t believe it, the ten million bucks is ‘pie in the sky’, and is a long way from reality. Even the few who may be capable of turning out product glibly talk about budgets ranging from half a million to a million and a half dollars. Canada unfortunately is far from ready for such projects.
It should be remembered that all the countries with any sort of film industry started their production in very modest ways, in fact all of them have gone through the stages of low costing productions, some good, some bad and some indifferent. If we are to achieve anything worth while, we probably have to