CineMag (May 5, 1980)

OTTAWA — The Canadian Film Institute will hold its Third International Animation Festival, to take place at the National Art Centre in Ottawa from Augiist 25-30, 1980. Electronic. and computor animation will be included in this year’s festival agenda for the first time. There will be competitive categories for animation especially produced for television, and workshops and demonstrations to enable participants to try out some of the latest in animation equipment. So far, response to the festival has been overwhelming, report the organizers; 28 countries Box 477, ae Sk, f 8Lee 905.9 16th Yorkton Inter. Film Festival FESTIVALS have already pledged films, and participants from over 30 countries have announced their intention to attend. International cooperation plays a major role in the Ottawa _ Fest. It offers animators from around the world an opportunity to exchange ideas and techniques. on the craft. Organizers hope participants will return to their countries with fresh insights into the animation developments taking place elsewhere. This year’s program includes internationally-adjudicated competitive events, innovative retrospectives, tribute programs, and other specialized sessions A Competition of | Best Canadian Short Films —WORKSHOPS —FILM MARKETING —PUBLIC SCREENINGS —INTERNATIONAL FILM DISPLAY Rules, Regulations and Entry Forms .available March 15,1980. FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Sheila Harris, Exec. Sec. Yorkton, Sask: S3N 2W4 We ieee Celebrate Saskatchewan” CineMag designed to advance the Art of Animation. Due to a special arrangement with the University of Ottawa, those attending will be able to stay on campus for reasonable rates, only a short walk from the NAC. The deadline for entry forms is June 15, 1980. Toensure that all entries are on time for the pre-selection by the international jury, the deadline for film/video entries is July -1. Details on the Festival’s rules and regulations, etc., can be obtained fram Frederik Manter or Kelly O’Brian, “Ottawa 80,” c/o The Canadian Film Institute, 1105-75 Albert St., Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5E7. Yorkton Shorts In Competition For Gold Sheaf YORKTON — The 16th Yorkton International Film Festival will be held from November 39, 1980, marking its second year as a special Canadian forum for short film competition. An exhibition of award-winning international shorts will also be screened. The 1 980 festival will be particularly significant because Saskatchewan will be celebrating its 75th anniversary as a province. Plans include an emphasis on the distribution of short films. A ‘Filmmart’ will be organized as a central showcase for Canadian short films. Filmmakers, distributors, buyers, ‘educators, and interested groups can assemble there to discuss and view, in a non-competitive milieu, what is available on the market. Festival awards will include : The Golden Sheaf Award for the Best Film of the Festival, smaller replicas of the Golden Sheaf for each Category Award, an award of $500 for the Best _Childrens Film (sponsored by the Queen City Junior Film Society and International Year of the Child), Special Awards instituted by the Festival Committee at its discretion, and special commendations awarded by the judges. The film. categories are: Documentary, Animated, Television-Drama, Television Public Affairs, Travel and Adventure, Educational/Informational, Nature and Wildlife,. Sports and Recreation, Promotional, Experimental, Arts, Childrens, Science and Technology, Short Dramatic (under 30 min.), Health and Safety, Visual Essay, Business and Labour; and also, Direction, Picture Editing, Sound Editing, Cinematography, and Performance. cont. on p. 73 TORONTO — oe leona trade forum of seminars on film — packaging and marketing is planned as part of the 1980. Festival of Festivals scheduled provinces ha from September 4-13 inTorontosetup be to. run for six days — September 5 to 10 — or two days longer than -_ Seana _ This year’s trade session will and Frank have, the ‘first-ever’ trade forum in At the social: 1979, Again the Canadian once again, will be Film Development Corpora-— tion, the Ontario Ministry of film ‘diac Industry and Tourism are spon“now trying to obtain soring. | \ for a. Organizer Hana Frank — conjunction’ who put together last. year’s successful agenda along with Anna Stratton — says the forum will accomodate about 300 industry professionals, up 100 or — so. from 1979. Seminars and ~ workshops will take place down — the street from last year’s site, at the Park Plaza Hotel. | Frank sayS various industry; co ng Banff 1981 : Bigger, Better) BANFF — The Second Banff International Festival of Films for Television is slated for Sept. 24 to Oct. 4, 1981. By-passing a festival this year, director Cary Hunter hopes to secure the solid support needed to insure long term survival for the festival. ; ““We have the moral support of the Alberta government and a verbal commitment forfunds,” reports Hunter. Although the audit is not final, she pegs the 1970 deficit at about$200,000. This is still, she feels, amadnage able deficit. ‘The festival was more successful than weever thought possible,” she comments. Requests to participate in the next festival have come from every Eastern European country and Great Britain has showed enthusiastic interest. Many Canadian counsulates are receiving requests for information about Banff. | “We got better press abroad than we did at home, and that was unfortunate,” she says, in sisting that next year more attention will be paid to domestic publicity. Structurally, the Board = | . Directors will spend more time this year on the festival, and the Banff Center has freed up Pat Judge, its development officer, ‘to work halftime for the festival. Hunter is about to start out on an intensive campaign to raise funds, Fil Fraser, president of the New West Foundation which, along with the Banff Center and the province of Alberta, caused -the Festival to happen, com| mented that the success of the first festival encouraged everyone concerned, *“Now we want to operate at another level which will take more money than we first anticipated.*” According to Fraser, costs for next year may reach $500,000, a healthy amount for a festival which takes place far from a large urban centre. _ ‘We want to keep the mood, the spirit of last year’s festival. The warmth and the enthusiasm is what people remember, and what’ makés us want to do it again,’ confides Hunter. Disappointed that funding was not in place in time for 1980, Hunter looks forward to next year with optimism. — AMPIA Fest _ EDMONTON — The Seventh Annual Alberta Film Festival Will be held this year in Calgary on November 15, says AMPIA likely be held in the Kinsmen | Center and would feature the Fil Fraser and directed Dalen, and Parallels, pecan by Edmonton’ s Jack Wynter. the increasing number of Alberta-backed and Alberta-made features, the showcase a will be feature —_ films.