CineMag (Oct 27, 1980)

oe ) ere : October 27, 1980 CineMag — CFTA Joins With Academy To Present Single TV /Shorts Awards TORONTO — The Academy of Canadian Cinema (ACC) and the Canadian Film and Television Association (CFTA) have Joined together to present the Canadian Television and Short Film Awards in October 1981, the Board of Directors of both the Academy and the CFTA has announced. This coproduction, uniting the various ‘sectors of the nontheatrical and television industries into one, single high profile event, will honour outstanding achievements in television and short film programming and crafts. Previously, both the Academy and the CFTA had similar overlapping jurisdictions resulting in two independent annual award events celebrating non-theatrical filmmakers. Now, the entire industry, both public and private, ‘ will be eligible for this co-operative awards competition. Adjudicated by juries from across Canada, the Awards Pre sentation will include such cate gories as Television Drama, Television Variety, Documentaries, Animation, Commercials, Corporate and Industrial Films, Audio-Visual presentations and others. tion of Canadian film award competitions, the ‘“‘non-feature”’ Genie Awards previously scheduled in conjunction with the Genie feature film awards, will in the | future be a separate showcase event. Two categories, however, Outstanding Theatrical Short MPIC To Support ACC As Clipping Service Moves TORONTO — The Academy of Canadian Cinema has announced its plans to provide a press clipping information service for members of the film industry and other interested parties. Originally initiated and administered by the Motion Picture Institute of Canada (MPIC), for its Associate Members, this service will now be maintained and expanded by the Academy of Canadian Cinema with the financial assistance of the MPIC. Beginning November, 1980, subscribers will receive a comprehensive, monthly set of articles and clippings, compiled from pertinent publications concerning current news, programmes, activities and developments in the film industry today. . — MPIC President Bill Soady reports that this move is in keeping with the original philosophy of the Institute. ““From the beginning, we saw ourselves as a group which would initiate activities, and then turn them over to interested people to continue. We have neither the staff nor the desire to maintain a broad range of permanent acti Vities.”’ . The MPIC-will continue to 7 support the ACC clipping services as the former organization winds down (but not out) its activities. Subscriptions to the press clipping service are available through the Academy offices. Originally, the Canadian Motion ° Picture Distributors Association had offered to maintain the clipping service and correspondence with the associate members for the MPIC. | Films and Outstanding Docu mentary Films produced primarily for the theatrical market, will be awarded during the Genie feature film awards presentation, scheduled for March 12, 1981. All films in these categories must be commercially released before December 31, 1980 to be eligible. , 5 SQSSGRSRBGRBRARBSRBSBRBSSSSBSBRSSESRBRBSBBRERBSBSESHSBRRBSCREBRERRBSERBBEBRBaRaeEeaeReBeeseeseseseseseaeses Fruet Films In Georgia With Argosy TORONTO — Bill Fruet is setto go Nov. 3 in Georgia with Chatwill’s Verdict, a $2 million film about a cuckolded man who seeks revenge against his wife’s lover, a county welfare worker. Producer of the film, which will be made with Canadian Film Development Corp. (CFDC) assistance, is Herb Abramson, a partner (with Martyn Burke) in Toronto and Los Angeles based Argosy F ilms. Associate producer is Pat Doyle. Chatwill’s Verdict stars Henry Silva, who has seen recently in Hatful of Rain, but before that he has played the perennial Spanish punk juvenile in T.V. and movies (Viva Zapata, Johnny Cool and The Manchurain Candidate). Another lead, the actors and crew will all be Canadian, an Argosy spokesman says. As a result of this re-organiza Trade Winds WARSAW — Krystof Zanussi (Camouflage), | mitters operating at 30 kw, but such improvements | one of Poland’s leading directors, is now shooting | would eventually result in$5 million a year savings | a film on the life of Pope John Paul II. The film, | in power costs. From a Faraway Country, is being produced by an Italian film studio using Polish, Italian and British actors. The film will end with the Pope’s last year return visit to his native Poland. The film is} COPENHAGEN — Adults here going to see | expected to be more than a reverent history of the | The Empire Strikes Back needn’t worry about | | } | uk former Cardinal Karol Kojtyla. Zanussi is a} being bothered by the unrestrained enthusiasms caustic social commentator and many of his past films have skewered corrupt political figures. ee HOLLYWOOD — Mary Crosby, the breezy blouseful from Dallas, who also happens to be -Bing’s daughter, recently told a reporter that while her father and Bob Hope went on the road together to Singapore, Zanzibar and Morocco, they seldom had any time for each other when they got back home. Bing, his daughter says, “didn’t even like Bob Hope very much. On screen and in front of the TV cameras they were always joking with each other. They appeared to be the best of friends. But in reality, they seldom saw each other... I can remember the Hopes coming to our house just once.” ye ok NEW YORK — A Public Broadcasting System (PBS) report proposes procedures to drastically improve the performance of UHF TV transmitters. But the price tag for individual stations for of rapt pre-schoolers. The Empire Strikes Back, like Star Wars, Close Encounters and Star Trek before it, has been restricted to viewers over the age of 12 by Danish censors. ‘“‘Children are not allowed to see a film that desensitizes them to violence and suffering,” | says a Danish professor of psychology and film } censor. ‘‘They must not see a film if we feel they | will get (from it) less ability to feel pity.” Sex is generally not a rationale for restricting films for children in Denmark. Unless the sex is | presented in an unseemly manner, the censor | says. “T don’t think children will be harmed if they | see two adults going to bed with each other. But | only if they express love for each other and do | what they do-with feeling,” he says. Denmark eliminated film censorship for adults in 1969. Film censorship for children comes in three categories: children under 16, children under 12 and parental wamings for children | under 7. a Quebec Decision cessary step before a film can receive a visa for exhibition in the province. | Caligula was produced by the publisher of Penthouse, Bob Guccione. It was originally directed by Gore Vidal but Vidal was fired from the shoot and Guccione finished the film himself, reports the distributor. Currently, there is no“‘director’ named on the film’s credits, Caligula Appeals (cont. from p. 1) the improvements could cost as much as $130,000. | NEW YORK — Columbia Pictures has rejected The suggested innovations include realigning | a multimillion dollar takeover offer from Metro| and tuning external cavity klystron tubes, installing | Goldwyn-Mayer Film Co. Columbia also rejected | a pulser which provides bursts of power and lower| a separate proposal from MGM’s biggest stock| ing the ratio of aural power from 20 to 10 percent | holder, millionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian to _of visual power. The use of wave guides instead | increase his stock in Columbia. Columbia reports of transmission lines on antennas is another sug| that it received a merger proposal with MGM in gested improvement which PBS would also result “exchange for 55 million MGM shares, an offer of in power savings. s about $454 million. When that offer was turned UHF stations in the U.S. now operate at ERPs | down, Kerkorian proposed to buy 1.25 million up to 5,000 kw. with power costs running to | shares, which would have raised his stake in the $100,000 or more a year. PBS predicts it would | company from 24 to 36 per cent. Columbia, initially cost $10 million to alter their 129 trans| nowever, also rejected the private bid. Over the course of a year, Guérin said that about 72. films failed to be classified after their initial screening, At that point, distributors either re-cut the films or appealed the initial judgement. In the end, Guerin stated, only 5 or 6 films “failed to be exhibited in Quebec”’ because of the Board’s failure to classify. Classification is the first, ne Syucre Sound Ltd . Ee STUDIO « EDITING ROOMS e 16/35 MIXING & TRANSFER — STEENBECKS VOICE BOOTH KEM XENON PROJECTION MOVIOLAS 67 PORTLAND ST. TORONTO MS5V 2M9 AREA 416 PHONE 363-9421