Cinema Canada (Apr 1976)

de films (FIAPF). It’s the objective of the fest to further development of animation as an art and as a business. An international jury -— there’s no pre-selection jury — will see all the films entered and will set its own regulations for which films will be shown out of competition. Categories will be, announced; this year an additional category, animation for commercials, has been added. The daily program will include morning and afternoon retrospectives, out of competition screenings, study sessions, and, during the evenings, competition screenings. Improved projection facilities will be installed in the Arts Centre in time for the fest. Festival Director is Wayne Clarkson; Frederick Manter is Executive Director of the CFI, and Harris Kirshenbaum is Director of Public Relations. AMATEUR FILM. The Canadian International Amateur Film Festival will be held in Ottawa July 21-24, and entries are invited. Deadline is May 1, and judging will take place during June, with finalists to be screened during the fest, and the winner announced and shown on Awards Night July 24. A tour of some of the films will follow. Three of the judges have been announced: Movie Maker editor Tony Rose, Mrs. M. Conneely of Chicago, and Jack W. Ruddell of Toronto. For more info write Mrs. Betty Peterson, 4653 Dundas St. West, Islington, Ontario M9A 1A4. Les Films Québec Love CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY and Quebec Love Films are organizing Canadian Animated Film Week at Cinéma Elysée in Montreal from July 4-10. It’s to be part of the festival of Canadian films running at the cinema during July. Deadline for entries is May 1, and any frameby-frame film for cinema or TV in 16 or 35mm is eligible. Write 842 de Lagauchetiere est, Montreal H2L 2N2. REFOCUS is the biggest student-run photography, film and video festival in the U.S., and it’s held at the University of Iowa in the spring and fall. This April 16-25 will feature a strong Canadian contingent, along with the regular American efforts and _ premieres. Claude Jutra and Don Shebib will appear in person, and among the Canadian films shown will be Second Wind, Goin’ Down the Road, Between Friends, Bikers, Good Times Bad Times, all by Shebib; Pour le meilleur et pour le pire, Mon Oncle Antoine, Wow, Kamouraska, A tout prendre, and selected shorts, all by Jutra; and Wedding in White, Duddy Kravitz and others... The Toronto Public Libraries sponsored a free Canadian Film Festival at various branches from March 15-19. Shown were Peter Pearson’s Paperback Hero, Allan King’s A Married Couple, Legend, Bloodsugar, and La tendresse ordinaire... La tendresse ordinaire At Hemisfilm 76 in San Antonio, Texas, during February, Mon Oncle Antoine gathered three Awards: Olivette Thibault for Best Actress, Claude Jutra for Best Director, and Jacques Gagnon for Exceptional Juvenile Performance... Rory MacLean’s The Photo Arts Centre has been selected for showing at the 1976 Los Angeles International Film Exposition... Peter VanUum of Vancouver won first place in the Advertising and Sales Category, Best Cinematography, and overall best in the show at the 17th Annual Industrial Photographic Awards in New York. The film he entered was Because It’s Home, made for the B.C. Government. The All-American Press Association, a New York-based group of foreign and domestic journalists, held their 17th Awards recently, and named Lies My Father Told Me as Best Foreign Film and Jan Kadar as Best Director... Mean while Lies has received an Oscar nomination for Ted Allen’s screenplay... And the film has been given the Christopher Award by the U.S. Roman Catholic assembly. Random Notes The Council of Canadian Filmmakers has submitted a brief to the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration. It summarizes the Rocca situation and the recent application to the combines investigation, and concludes, ‘““We would like you to consider the market system of the film industry in Canada because we believe it is an outstanding example of corporate concentration which excludes independent Canadian participation and operates contrary to the interest of the Canadian filmmaker and exhibitor, and, by extension, to the public interest.” On another High Level, the Nova Scotia Government will definitely appeal the Gerald McNeil decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. Watch the big time lawyers gather, paid for by the taxpayers... On the Highest Level, the top brass at the CBC, ever adventurous, pulled Michael Tait’s Fellowship from its scheduled Sunday evening spot, and gave it to individual stations to program as_ they wished; CBLT in Toronto made it a late show. Despite protests by John Hirsch and Tait and other drama workers, the Brass felt the content to be too risqué. Directed by Paul Almond, it’s about an Anglican Church breakaway sect that worships evil, and features a crucifixion scene and a scene where a defrocked priest is seduced by a young girl. The keen observer would note that (a) it is based on a true story (b) it was performed on stage at Stratford last year, in prime time (c) on the same night the announcement was made about the change, on the CBC’s House of Pride, in prime time, viewers witnessed, and were corrupted by, a scene between a couple, unmarried, lying in __ bed, wherein he, who is a newcomer to the country, offers an exchange: he’ll teach her about sex if she teaches him English. More CBC Notes: The Corporation was subjected to a series of rotating strikes in mid-March, as CUPE signalled their disapproval at the lack of contract negotiations. Negotia FILIYI NEWS tions quickly resumed. But soon after, they broke down, both sides remaining at an impasse. The CBC is offering 12.5% and 11.5% in each year of a twoyear contract, while the union accepts factfinder Stanley Hartt’s proposal of 17% and 8% with a cost-of-living increase in the second year. 4500 employees are affected... CBC: internal rating surveys, done by canvassing twenty thousand households, show a_ drop in Performance viewers from 1.2 million to 750,000 as well as a much lower ‘Enjoyment’ rating in general for the series. King of Kensington, on the other hand, boasts over 900,000 viewers and an enjoyment rating higher than that of Phyllis, which has twice the number of viewers. This ‘Enjoyment’ rating indicates how many in the audience liked the show, and it’s a more important way of measuring success, because the CBC is not after numbers, but success with the audience a given program is aimed at. But surely the index is a misnomer: you can ‘appreciate’ a heavy drama without ‘enjoying’ it, and the index results reflect this... Contests: The Second CBC TV Drama Writing Contest for College Students is now on. Onehour video scripts — not film — should be submitted by June 30. Judges John Hirsch, David Helwig and Bena Shuster will award three prizes: 3rd is $500, 2nd is $750, and Ist is $1000, which is an option for a year to produce the winning script. Send entries to College Writing Contest, CBC TV Drama Department, Box 500, Station A, Toronto M5W 1K6. Meetings: The Canadian Society of Cinematographers held their March Toronto meeting with guest Ed Malec, a Technical Sales Rep for Kodak, and reminded members that the deadline for nominations for the executive for out-of-towners is May 8 at the Annual General Meeting... The Toronto Filmmakers Co-op sponsored two evenings in February on the topic Income Tax and the Filmmaker. Guests answered questions on film financing and personal income tax. Grants: The Ontario Arts Council has announced its annual Screenwriters Grants, worth up to $3000 each for an individual. Thirty applications were received for this round, and seven were awarded: Ernest F. Boggs, Peter Cooke, Brian Damude, April 1976/7