Take One (Nov-Dec 1972)

and edited here. When we began life seven-and-a-half years ago, we were this country’s only film magazine; today there are not only Motion, Canadian Film Digest, and Cinema Canada but the excellent newspaper That's Show Business. Obviously there just isn’t that much Canadian film news to go around (less this year than in the heyday of the industry a couple of years back), so each of us is coming to concentrate in areas where we think we can do the best and most valuable job. With our international scope and readership, we feel that Take One can be of most service by putting Canadian experience into geographical and temporal perspective; thus the recent interview with independent filmmaker Ivan Reitman and the comprehensive overview of the Challenge for Change program. Futsre issues will include material (some of it quite explosive) about the early days of the Film Board and a number of more theoretical pieces on the Canadian film aesthetic. Plus, of course, reviews of as many important and/or interesting feature films as we can find. Sure we're Canadian! But our first commitment is — and always has been — to produce as interesting a magazine as our meagre resources permit. On most days, thank God, we can be Canadian and interesting too. — Ed. FESTIVALS AND COMPETITIONS The Fifth International Experimental Film Competition, organized by the Royal Film Archive of Belgium, is to be held December 25, 1974 through January 2nd, 1975. Sound or silent films, in 16mm or 35mm, may be entered and there are interesting prizes. Deadline is Sept. 1 of 1974. Entry forms from the Secretariat at: Palais des Beaux-Arts, 23 Ravenstein, 1000 Brussels. Independent filmmakers from anywhere in the U.S. are invited to submit their films (16mm or Super-8) for the Seventh Annual Brooklyn Film Festival — deadline is July 21. There are entrance fees anda Grand Prize of $100. For a complete list of rules and regulations, write Brooklyn Arts & Culture Ass’n., 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11238 (212-7833077). Entry deadline is April 2 for films (on all aspects of human sexual experience) submitted for The Human Sexuality Film Festival, co-sponsored by the Baltimore Film Festival and Johns Hopkins University. For further information on the festival(which is to be held May 3 and 4), contact Harvey Alexander, Baltimore Film Festival, 3536 Greenmount Avenue, Baltimore, Md. 21218. The International Film Festival to be held this year at Cannes May 9 through May 24 has announced that, as a_ special official presentation of the Festival, it will pay homage to the American independent film movement. Non-invited filmmakers who wish their works to be screened ought to contact Frederick A. Keller, Festival International du Film, 71 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, France, for information concerning the possible inclusion of their films in the Festival. For the American filmmakers selected for representation, it will mean an opportunity to have their films screened by the largest group of international producers and distributors to be assembled annually anywhere in the cinematic world. April 10 is the deadline for entries in the Geneva College Film Competition, which is open to student-made films in 16mm, 8mm or super-8. Questions? Write: Dr. Norman Carson, Geneva College Film Competition, Geneva College, Beaver Falls, Pa. 10510. An International Symposium on Science Media is to be held in Rochester, New York May 21 through 24. More information about the meeting — which will deal with current applications of film and tv in the areas of science and technology (education, research, reporting) — can be had from The American Science Film Association, 7720 Wistonsin Ave., Bethesda, Md. 20014 (301-654-6864). There are $3000 in cash awards at this year’s (the twelfth annual) Independent Film-Makers’ Festival, held’ May 15 through 19. Any 16mm film produced between January 1973 and April 1974 may be entered at an entry fee of $7.50 per film (deadline is May 3). Entry form available from the festival at: Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, Calif. 94022. Something a little different is Cinephilia Stockholmia 74, a stamp film festival to be held in connection with the International Stamp Exhibition in Stockholm this year (the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Universal Postal Union). Anyone who has made a film on stamps can enter it for the judging (the jury includes Lindsay Anderson) by writing: Cinephilia Stockholmia 74, Box 360, S-101 24 Stockholm 1, Sweden. The International Film & TV Festival of New York is to be held November 4 through 8 this year, encompassing all aspects of commercial film production (from filmstrips through industrial films to tv programs and promotional films). Details and entry blanks: The International FTF Corporation, 251 West 57th Street, New York, N.Y. 10019 (212-2469133): April 3 through 7, the Ontario Film Association will be holding its fifth annual Film Showcase at Geneva Park, near Orillia, Ontario. Anyone involved in booking or buying 16mm films can obtain more information about this screening of films from Wayne Cunningham at 705-7281951. The British Film Institute’s 1974 Summer School will be held at the University of Stirling (Scotland) July 27 through August 10. Aimed primarily (but not exclusively) at film teachers and students, this school will examine “Critical Theory and Film Analysis’. Course fee (including all accommodation, food and tuition) is about $130. Further information from: Summer School Secretary, British Film Institute, 81 Dean Street, London W1V 6AA, England. Films must be in Zagreb by April 15 in order to be considered by the selection committee of the second World Festival of Animated Film — to be held June 10 through 15. The festival is generally considered an excellent place to sell foreign rights (especially to television), and the directors of all films selected for the festival will be invited to stay in Zagreb for the festival at the festival’s expense. Either write the festival itself at ZagrebFilm, 41000 Zagreb, Vlaska 70, Yugoslavia, Or one of the foreign coordinators: Charles Samu, 49 Victory Place, East Brunswick, N.J. 08816; and Clare Kitson, 4 Horn Park Lane, Lee, London-SE12. The Ninth Tokyo International Amateur Film Contest is to be held this fall (entry deadline August 31) and is open to 8mm and 16mm films produced since January 1972 by non-professional filmmakers (films must be less than 20 minutes in length). Addresses are: The Japan Foundation, Daito Building, 3-7-1, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan; or, c/o Japan Society Inc., 333 East 47th Street, New York, N.Y. 10017. on