Cinema Canada (Oct 1979)

Page scan 0001 from Cinema Canada

Record Details:

Title:
Cinema Canada
Date:
Oct 1979
Volume:
Cinema Canada (Oct 1979)
Leaf #:
0001
Language:
English
Collection:
Global Cinema, Canada, and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library, Canadian Media Magazines Project, Conorr Norquay, Paul Moore and Jessica Whitehead
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:

Cinema Canada

Earlier Title: Canadian Cinematography (1961-67)

Cinema Canada (1967-89) was the primary trade journal for film and television production in Canada. The magazine originated as Canadian Cinematography (1961-67), published by the Canadian Society of Cinematographers, but was renamed to appeal to a wider readership and to recognize a degree of maturity of the national film production industry. Cinema Canada hosted a new slate of stridently nationalist film critics, scholars and writers. The magazine’s emergence coincided with a threshold, of sorts, when a national cinema became recognizable in character as having an independence from Hollywood genres, even if output remained relatively small in quantity. The publication’s archives are housed at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Film Reference Library.

– Paul Moore, 2024

Date Added:
May 23, 2025
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aa CANADIAN FILM <> TELEVISION ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DE CINEMATELEVISION CFTA TAKES INITIATIVE ON PAY TELEVISION CFTA has joined. the other major film and television producer organizations in the formation of a Policy Committee to study pay television and to develop an industry-wide position which they will recommend to government. The Committee will be comprised of representatives from five leading professional associations: The Alberta Motion Picture Industry Association (“AMPIA’), l’Association des Producteurs de Films du Quebec (‘“APFQ”), The Canadian Animation Producers Association (“CAPA”), The Canadian Association of Motion Picture Producers (“CAMPP”) and the Canadian Film and Television Association (“CFTA”) More than 400 members are reprensented by these associations, and collectively they will produce this year over $100,000,000.00 in feature films and programmes for television, in both the English and French languages. The Policy Committee has begun to examine all current proposals for a pay television system in Canada and will develop a model which takes into account primarily the needs of the consumer and the programme producer. The result will be the presentation of a brief to the Federal Minister of Communications, to The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTTC) and to interested provincial authorities. The formation of the joint committee is the result of the shared belief that, for Canadian consumers and producers, the selection of a model to programme pay television wil be the most important decision made in the communications industry in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Canada’s film and television producers also believe that a successful model will provide a platform for launching our production industry in the international market place. The work of the pay television Policy Committee will be independently financed by CFTA, AMPIA, APFO, CAPA and CAMPP. The Committee intends to publish its views early in the new year. CFTA members are encouraged to present their views in writing to the CFTA office. CFTA members may obtain copies of the Policy Statement on Broadcasting made to the CFTA by Minister of Communications David MacDonald on October 4, 1979 in Ottawa, by contacting the CFTA office.