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toronto’s super§ festival increasingly professional
by andrew dowler
photo: Vivienne Kugler
Chairman of the Grants for Super 8 panel discussion, James Blue (centre) introduces panel members Gunther Hoos, Super 8 Sound, Massachus
This year’s festival seemed to settle it; the S8 community is going professional. But differences of opinion and of experience persist, and the filmmakers at the Funnel are still the loyal opposition.
setts: Catherine Wyler, National l:ndowment for the Arts, USA: and Francoyse Picard, Canada Council, Ottawa
The fourth Toronto Super Eight Film Festival was held at Harbourfront from April 6th to 8th. In common with previous festivals, it featured screenings, craft workshops, glimpses of S8 activity from other countries and hordes of people talking shop and making contacts. Different from previous festivals, it featured prescreening of entries, cash and equipment prizes and seminars devoted to S8 as a money-making proposition. This is a reflection of the S8 community. Surprisingly, this professionalism was not universally lauded. We shall hear more of that later.
The centrepiece of this aspect of the festival was Saturday afternoon’s panel discussion: Grants for S8 Funding the Independent. James Blue, filmmaker, workshop giver and festival committee member, chaired the discussion and introduced
the panel members to a full house in Harbourfront’s main hall. They were Eldon Garnett, a Toronto filmmaker who is thoroughly opposed to grants for S8; Francoyse Picard, head of the Canada Council’s film program; Catherine Wyler, the assistant director for media of the American National Endowment for the Arts, and Gunther Hoos, S8 consultant to Cambridge.
Picard began by announcing that the Canada Council wants to fund S8 production and that she gets far fewer applications than she can handle. The crowd responded with a sudden hush and then the rustle and click of notebooks and tape recorders
Andrew Dowler is a York film graduate who has worked ona variety of film projects and is presently a freelance writer.
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