Cinema Canada (Apr 1976)

FILIMINEWS Larry Fineberg, John Lapointe, Robbie Malenfant, John A. Turn bull... Norman Klenman and A.M. Louis Portugais received Senior Arts Grants in Film from the Canada Council... Canada Council Explorations Program grants were awarded for film projects to L.A. Ewasshen of Creston, B.C. for a Doukhobors film; P.A. McDonnell of Regina for a film on children’s playgrounds; Martin Heath of Toronto for a mobile cinema/theatre to tour isolated areas; Vortex of Toronto for a film exploring different facets of man’s relationship with space; Love Films Animation of Montreal for research for a film of a picture of Montreal through the language of its people; Raoul Volant of SeptIles for a video documentary of the Montagnais people... The Video division of the Council awarded grants totalling $220,000 to groups and individuals. Organizations include Vidéographe of Montreal, Art Official of Toronto, Teled Video Service Association of Halifax, Metro Media Association of Greater Vancouver, Sonographe of Montreal, and Institut d’art contemporain of Montreal. Individual recipients include Richard Boutet of Montreal, Howard Alk of Ottawa (director of Crawley’s Janis), Helen Goldwin of Vancouver, Kim Andrews of Toronto, le Group Télécap of Montreal, and Christian Chazel of Montreal. Aid Request: The B.C. Early Film Project, funded by the Ca nada Council Explorations pro' gram, is looking for information about any film made in B.C. before 1939. The goal is to catalogue the films, not acquire them. Any guage is being sought, even home movies. Researchers will visit if you contact the Project at Box 171 Saanichton, B.C. VOS 1M0 or (604) 652-2719. Literati: The Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa has published the third volume in the series cataloguing Canadian Feature production. This part covers 1964-69, and was compiled by Piers Handling... Eleanor Beatie’s revised Handbook of Canadian Film is due soon... Bob Fothergill’s thematic examination of Canadian film was to have been published by Peter Martin, but has been postponed indefinitely... Martin Knelman has left the Film Critic position at the Toronto Globe and Mail; he wants to concentrate on freelancing, his column in 8 /Cinema Canada Weekend and theatre articles for Saturday Night. He’ll be replaced by Robert Martin, who now covers rock music for the paper... The Toronto Star brass, defending the paper’s coverage of the arts to a group of theatre people, stated that space allowed has been increased by three columns. And an examination will verify that claim. Of course, all the new copy is right off the Associated Press wire and covers American entertainment news. Appointments and _ Honors: Claude Jutra_ celebrated his birthday in March on a CBC set where he’s filming Ada on location in Toronto. Time was 7:30 a.m. and official guests included Don Shebib, Natalie Edwards and Joe Medjuck.... Harry Boyle is officially head of the CRTC, with his term running to 1980... Norman Jewison has been made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in Toronto. Only fourteen filmmakers have been so honored since the origin of the Academy in 1880... CBC producer Harry Rasky (Tennessee Williams, Chagall, Jerusalem) was himself the subject of a one-hour ETV show in New York... CTV has appointed Vicki Blake as manager of _ its Educational Film Distribution Department... Lionel T. Remillard is the new Director of French Programming in_ the Educational Media Division of OECA... Norman McLaren was the subject of a film retrospective at the Ontario Film Theatre this winter; his drawings were also displayed... Film musician Charles Hoffman is Artist-in-residence at the Alberta College of Art. His program consists of a series of demon strations with the overall title of Exploring the Audio-Visual Arts. Here and There: CTV’s Olympic series has been purchased by the BBC. ...The Neptune Factor was shown on ABC on March 12th, and for TV was, retitled The Neptune Disaster ... Jack Webb is developing a potential TV series on the RCMP. Of course, it will then be bought by a Canadian network ... Harris Kirshenbaum reminds you all that he is accepting films for the CFI-NFB New York programs of showings of independent filmmakers’work to gatherings of distributors. Contact him at the Canadian Film Institute, 75 Albert St., no. 1105, Ottawa K1P 5K7... Actor Robert Silverman was seriously injured by a car driven by a drunken driver in Toronto recently. He’s still in hospital and will take a long time to mend... Sprockets returned to CBC Thursday at 10:30 p.m., now that the Peep series is over for this year. Sebert Productions’ Just Lather, That’s All, was shown March 11, and the March 25 show featured Julius Kohanyi’s Rodin and John Gould’s Ancestors ITI. If you’re already counting the loot from your film sale to Canadian TV, it would be best to cancel the villa in Spain and cut the yacht down to a rowboat. Rough estimates for prices paid are as follows: For a half-hour show CTV pays $1500-2500 and CBC $2500-4000. An hour show will bring $3000 5000 from CTV and $5000 8000 from CBC. A feature sale produces $10,000-40,000 from CTV and $8500-12,000 from CBC. For example, CTV purchased several showings of Why Rock the Boat? for a reported $30,000. Stuart Gillard in Why Rock the Boat? Canada Firsters Take Note: A full-page ad in a recent issue of the show biz bible Variety trumpeted a feature as a “100% American Action Picture” with stars Stuart Whitman, John Saxon, and Gayle Hunnicut. It added that the picture was filmed entirely in New York, Montreal and Toronto. And in the centre was a photo of an Ottawa police badge. Stephen Chesley ONTARIO THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD Regional Production Centre is still in process, but certain guidelines are appearing, most of them influenced by budget, which in this case is tight indeed. Work will be done in Super 8, 16mm, and in threequarter-inch color video. The goal is to involve as many freelancers as possible, and to keep equipment purchases, besides editing, at a minimum. And to try and finance the films on a sponsored level. Head Don Hopkins is currently travelling back and forth between Toronto and Montreal setting things up, and no final decision has been made yet as to space acquisition. So the April 1st start date is obviously not going to be met. THE LAW has not been idle lately. Representatives of the guardians of our public morals have tramped through the snow of Ottawa to pull the film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from the hardtop Rideau Theatre and the Brittania Drive-In. Lest corruption spread, the Rideau replaced Texas with Jaws, and the Brittania put in a porno flick... And in Sarnia the manager of the local movie palace showing The Story of O The Story of O was told by the police to find more suitable fare. The manager had received one complaint about the film, and the police declined to give reasons for the order to withdraw the film. The manager didn’t like the picture anyway.... The long arm of the law had its fingers slapped in a court case, though. Action had been brought against the former late show on Toronto’s CITY TV, The Baby Blue Movie show