Cinema Canada (Nov-Dec 1978)

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powerhouse presents In Montreal, there was another festival, less passionate, perhaps, than Vancouver’s Feminist Festival, but important as a show place for Canadian women’s films. Jane Dick gives a short report. A selection of films concerning women’s issues and made by Canadian women filmmakers was shown at Montreal’s Le Cinéma Paralléle October 10-14, presented by Powerhouse Gallery. The main emphasis of Powerhouse is to provide a centre which reflects the trends of women artists. The Jane Dick is a free-lance writer living in Montreal. photo: Chris Holland 28/Cinema Canada Kay Armatage was among the filmmakers on hand to discuss film by Jane Dick film festival was conceived as an extension of this. Femmedia and Studio ‘D’ of the National Film Board also assisted in the festival. Seventeen films were presented, most of them from Montreal and Toronto and they played to packed houses every night. Proceeds were shared 50-50 between Powerhouse and Le Cinéma Paralléle. Most of the films were documentary though there were a few animated films, including three by Veronika Soul, and two fiction films — Lois Siegel’s Recipe to Cook a Clown and Nesya Shapiro’s Passages. Among the documentaries were several portraits of individual women. Patricia’s Moving Picture (Bonnie Klein) talks with a west coast woman Cross-country skiing isn’t what it used to be in Lois Siegel’s Recipe to Cook a Clown