Cinema Canada (Oct-Nov 1974)

Forum of Young Cinema. Duddy also received a special jury award at the seventh Atlanta International Film Festival. Child Under a Leaf won a Silver Medal for Best Foreign Film at Atlanta. Canadian shorts also did well: a gold medal for Michael Mill’s The Happy Prince and Insight Productions’ Life Times Nine, and a bronze medal for Peter Sandler’s Little Mermaid. In TV categories Women won a gold medal and CTV won gold medals for The RussianGerman War and Police Surgeon, plus silver medals for Hear No Evil ... and Keep Out of the Reach of Adults. A Moreland-Latchford production, Cattle, won a gold medal and a special jury award. Four hundred films from thirtytwo countries participated. October 22 to 27 in Montreal will see the Fourth International Festival of Cinema in 16mm, featuring retrospectives and informative sessions as well as meetings with filmmakers. Organised by the Independent Filmmakers’ Co-operative, with support from the Canadian Festivals Office, Ministry of External Affairs, The Québec Ministry of Cultural Affairs, the Montreal Council of the Arts, and the National Film Board, the festival is non-competitive, although outside juries may give prizes. Pics are chosen on the basis of merits as creative statements in terms of concept, ideas, structures and form. Last year eighteen countries participated. The University Film Association Conference 28 was held in August at the University of Windsor. Theme was Ourselves and Others: Canada and the U.S.A., The Industry and the University. Workshops and screenings featured representatives from third world cinema, American TV, the NFB Challenge for Change program, Michael Spencer, Sam Kula from the Canadian Public Archives, Arthur Hammond, Gordon Noble of the CFI, and York University Film Head John Katz, as well as many others. c: Filmpeople/Random notes > You’re not Alone Department: A Canada Council study shows that the average income of Canadian professional musicians, actors and dancers in 1971 was lower than that of the entire Canadian labour force! Those interviewed worked as professionals over half their working time. Three quarters had secondary occupations in their particular art forms. Their unemployment averaged 16 per cent of the time. 9730 were questioned, and results showed a mean age of thirty-four, 65 per cent were Canadian and 26 per cent were American or British; mean income went from $4500 for those in dance to $7500 in music, and males earned $2000 more than females! The Canadian Association of Motion Picture Producers (CAMPP) held elections recently. Chalmers Adams was elected president, Al Waxman _ vicepresident, David Perlmutter treasurer, and John Vidette secretary. Bennett Fode will continue liaison work with allied organisations toward reviving the Canadian Film Awards, Larry Dane and Dick Schouten are co-chairmen of the media communications group, and a special committee was established to deal with labour organisations. ... Jack Gray, chairman of ACTRA’s Writers’ Council and ACTRA’s CCFM rep, has a new duty. He was elected President of the International Writers’ Guild at its Third World Congress in Monte Carlo this summer. He’s working on a new play now. ... ACTRA Toronto Branch held elections, and new president is writer Ben Nobleman. Ben Lennick is vice-president, Rex Hagan secretarytreasurer. Other council members are Barbara Franklin, Ken Kavanaugh, Aileen Taylor-Smith, Gino Morrocco, Marvin Goldhar, George R. Robertson, and Ratch Wallace. ACTRA is circulating a petition deploring CBC budget cuts, especially in radio, and asking that funds be restored and added to for further growth. Luke Rombout took over Suzanne Rivard-Lemoyne as head of the Canada Council’s Visual Arts and Film Section. He has background in museum, art gallery and university areas. ... Peggy Gale, formerly with the Art Gallery of Ontario, has been appointed Assistant Film and Video Officer at the Canada Council — Penni Jacques’ right-hand... Senior Arts Grants were awarded by the Council in July, and recipients included filmmakers Claude Jutra, Jean-Pierre Lefebvre, Don Shebib, and Walter Wright. ... The CFDC announced staff additions and changes. Paul Beaupré is now consultant on distribution. He has experience in the university circuit and has done research in administration of live theatre and art exhibitions in Quebec. Carole Langlois has _ been named Co-ordinator of French-language projects, to be assisted by Mme. Jocelaine Amiot-Mont. Ted Rouse will do the same for English-language efforts, assisted by Ms. Denise Mulvey. Jacques Dick, formerly the corporation’s accountant, is now Chief of Administration, Mlle Madelaine Grise is secretary to members of the Corporation. And Mlle Suzanne Huard is secretary to the Executive Director.... Incidentally, the main complaint about low-budget submissions is script quality, so the CFDC now has limited funds available for re-writes. ... The CFDC will also involve Famous Players head George Destounis in judging shorts, and FP will show ten per year as selected by Destounis at the script stage. Ontario censor board head O.J. Silverthorne officially retired in September, and his replacement is CBC radio broadcaster Don Sims. ... ACTRA is bringing out a directory of its 1000 member writers contingent, mainly because of the success of the actors directory, Face to Face with Talent. ... Sharon Keogh is working on a CBC special for next year to feature Pauline Julien, Maureen Forrester, and Sylvia Tyson. ... Sylvia Spring is directing Nightmusic for OECA in Ontario, a program about music and communication. ... Joe Silver, who played his first major film role as Farber in Duddy Kravitz, has been signed for two -more Canadian movies on the basis of that role, including The Parasite Complex. Before he appeared mainly in commercials in New York. ... Bob Clarke, director of Black Christmas, has become a full partner in Vision IV, the others being Dick Schouten, Harve Sherman and Victor Solnicki. ... Peter Rowe (Neon Palace, Good Friday in Little Italy) most recently production manager for Peter Bryant’s low-budget feature The Supreme Kid, has moved to Vancouver. He is currently co-writing a feature script as well as shooting travel films in northern B.C. ... Ty Haller is still hiding out in the Yukon, finishing a comedy feature script about Golden Agers. Jack Christie has finally gotten the censors’ restriction taken off Voulez-Vous Couchez Avec God? and is now working in Ottawa with Howard Alk (The Murder of Fred Hampton)... Peter Pearson’s Along These Lines, a theatrical short produced for Bell Canada by Immedia Inc. of Ottawa is the only Canadian film to be accepted by the 12th Annual New York Film Festival.A two-day symposium entitled The Cinema Canada 9