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unreleased feature Come on Children* (a drama-documentary about teenagers living on an isolated farm) is unclear. King himself is considering giving up active filmmaking and going into teaching. Among Montreal-based English-language productions, George Kaczender has completed shooting, in the city, on U-Turn*, a film about “a lawyer searching for his dream girl before he settles down to marriage with someone else”. The $420,000 picture is largely financed through Harold Greenberg's Bellevue-Pathé labs and is to be distributed by Cinépix (who are also distributing Wedding in White*, as well as Larry Kent's seventh feature — Keep It in the Family*). The screenplay is by Douglas Bowie. Work is likewise proceeding on Godsend*, a $500,000 picture (based on a short story by Joan MacKenzie) to be shot this winter in Northern Ontario by Potterton Productions (Don Brittain directing). Potterton are also shooting (this time with Gerald Potterton himself directing) The Rainbow Boys*, starring Kate Reid, Donald Pleasence, and Don Calfa (of Putney Swope and — most recently — Greaser’s Palace). The film, budgeted around $500,000, is a tale of the Cariboo gold rush days, and brings together an old prospector, the divorced wife of a professor, and a young New Yorker — all of them in search of a long-abandoned gold mine. TWO NEW CANADIAN FILMS OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL On the French side, in Montreal, Gilles Carle has now completed the 35mm colour film, La mort d’un bicheron*, a Carle-Lamy/Les Films Mutuels coproduction (budgeted at $250,000), that stars Pauline Julien, Marcel Sabourin, Daniel Pilon, Willie Lamothe, and Denise Filiatreault. Roger Frappier (who directed Le Grand Film Ordinaire) has completed shooting on Allo Toulmonde*, a documentary feature on poet Raoul Duguay and composer Walter Boudreau. Louis-Georges Carrier has begun shooting (on video-tape for later conversion to 35mm) on the feature Le P’tit Vient Vite, an adaptation of a Feydeau farce, being produced by Mojack Film. And Denis Héeroux (whose J’ai Mon Voyage, scheduled for a March release, has CFDC financing) has now completed Pour Quelques Arpents de Neige*, (starring Mylene Demongeot, Christine Olivier, Frédérique de Pasquale, Jean Duceppe and Daniel Pilon). On the Vancouver front, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (which was to have been directed by Daryl Duke) has now been postponed indefinitely, and The Double Hook, which was to have been shot this past May, has now been put off to August of next year. On the brighter side, that city’s Adam _ Productions (headed by actor, director, producer, writer Tony Mayger) is going into production on Bourke’s Liquidators, an adventure story (by New Yorker James Anthony Scott) that pits left-wing students against, right-wingers in an attempt to take over world government. The picture; withza budget of’over $1 million, is the first of five to be made ° by Adam for distribution by Futurama International of Studio City, California. And finally, Gordon Sheppard has now ~ announced that he will have Eliza’s Horoscope* (which he has been editing for almost two years) ready for the distributor — Warner Bros. —. by December. The Band will be doing the music. Stop Press: In the CFDC’s special high-risk investment program (budgeted at $600,000 per year) for films costing less than $100,000 apiece, it has been announced that four films (out of 40 or so requests submitted) have been promised CFDC investment (of about $60,000 each). The first four lucky recipients are: Tu bridles, tu brales (dir.: Jean-Guy Noél, for the Association coopérative des productions audio-visuelles). Bar-salon (dir.: André Forcier, for les Ateliers du cinéma québécois). Rosedale Lady (script and dir.: Don Owen). Peep (script & dir.: Jack Cunningham). 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