Cinema Canada (Nov 1981)

el f Ontario new software office for film, vir TORONTO — Larry Grossman, Ontario’s minister of Industry and Tourism, has announced the creation of an Office of Film Video and Software Develop ment in his ministry's indust-’ rial division. In his opening speech to the Trade Forum of the Festival of Festivals, Grossman said the Office would have a mandate to establish an in eas, and mentioned the impor tance of the emerging pay television networks. Grossman said the office would create a new information technologies capability within the industry division and seek to provide support for the promotion and marketing of Ontario as a film production location. He added that the office will also extend to exist dustrial focus in the above ar ¢C A OW & A D A Publisher: Jean-Pierre Tadros. Editors: Connie Tadros, Jean-Pierre Tadros. Associate Editor: Teri Coburn. General Manager: Del Mehes (Toronto). Staff reporter: Bruce Malloch Researcher: Yves Gagnon. 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Published with the financial assistance of the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. Second class mail registration no. 3083. ISSN 0009-7071 Administrative and. editorial office: 834 Bloomfield Ave., Montreal 1i2\'3S6, Telephone (514) 272-5354. Toronto office: 67 Portland St. Toronto MSV 2M9, Telephone (416) 366-0355. Mailing address: P. O. #8ox 398, Outremont Station, Montreal H2V4N3. ing marketing and promoting services in the video and soft. ware industries. : The Office of Film, Video and Software Development will participate in the design of the software programming for Ontario’s new $11 million Videotex support program, which recently purchased 2,000 Telidon terminals. Grossman estimated that by the end of the decade, Videotex services in North America will be worth over $75 billion, much of which will be in software programming. “There is still a great deal of uncertainty about the idea of culture as business, although I suspect that in the future, this concept could become more commonplace as more and more of us will depend upon the information and entertainment industries for our livelihood,” said Grossman. He claimed that the nation’s single most important economic activity now revolved around the production, dissemination, and use of information. Many of the filmmakers of the seventies, said Grossman, would be the ‘software’ developers of the eighties. He added that the TV and video industries were so totally related with the new high technologies that “their future cannot be assessed in insolation with these developments.” _ Grossman did not announce who would head the new office, but said Ontario Film Officer Brian Villeneuve would be working in conjunction with it. No. 79 — November 1981 Cover: The picture of innocence ? Hardly. Marie (Monique Spaziani) stars in Francis Mankiewicz’s controversial film Les beaux souvenirs. (See page 34.) Photo: Takashi Seida. Editorial: A political choice ....-. beet rece ernest cess eeees 18 Opinion : Time well spent? by Daniel Hausmann ........ 18 Letters... 0. ccc cece ce te renee ence rene se ee en senseeeuns 19 CineMag Trade News....... Mee A National Pay TV proposals .......-+-++++++erereeee ¢ ae Cae 10 Banff Festival echoes.............-+-+++:: See 13-17 In TranBiti, 2.0. sei beac cede bes suet ee ewes cs eden tn ee 7 Production Guide os occ ve dec cosine tele bwe hace du win sles earn 40-43 Box Office GroSS€S .......... cece eee cece e eee cern ereene 44-45 Interview Jean Lefebvre : On the fine art of festivals, by Teri Coburn ..... 20 Features Toronto festival : bonanza beats all, by John G. Harkness... 26 Mexico — doubletake : Better late than never, by Philip E. Hudsmith ....vas Manana never comes, by’ Rudy Wrench. ........-.Ber Docu strikes home, by Jacqueline Levitin.............--+-30 In Progress “Dreamworld” : High-voltage glamour, by Lyn Martin....... 32 “Till Death Do Us Part” : Mansion of the macabre, by Greg van Riel .......-.-------33 Film Reviews Francis Mankiewicz’s ‘Les beaux souvenirs” by Anne-Reiter «: 2.0.0.2 500s fac cee lua caches Gale ort aea 34 Richard Pearce’s “Threshold” by Stephen Zoller. ..........35 Holly Dale/Janis Cole’s “P4W : Prison for Women” by: Maurice Yacowar.. 2.2.00... .wsses 6 i+ ten 36 Bonnie Sherr Klein’s “Not a Love Story —a film about pornography”, by Maurice Yacowar, Kate Jansen..........36 Short Film Reviews Sturla Gunnarsson’s “After the Axe”, by Gary Lamphier..... 38 Angelo Stea’s “Exposure”, by Christopher Lowry .......-..38 . 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