N A T I O N A L F I L M B O A R D O F C A N A N D A O F F I C E N A T I O N A L D U F I L M D U C A N A D A
Ottawa, Septernber 1997
The Honourable Sheila Copps Minister of Canadian Heritage
Ottawa, Ontario
Minister:
I have the honour of subrnitting to you, in accordance with the provisions of section 20(1) of the National Film Act, 1950, the Annual Report of the National Film Board of Canada for its fifty-eight year, ended March 31, 1997.
The report also provides highlights of noteworthy events which occured during the fiscal year.
Respectfully,
Sandra Macdonald Government Film Cornrnissioner and Chairperson
NFB’s Profile - Management Committee - 6
Members of the Board of Trustees I
Chairperson’s Message
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Highlights
A Few Figures g Productions
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Summary of Activities - Production
Summary of Activities - Canadian Distribution
Summary of Activities - International Distribution
Financial Statements
NFB Offices and Partners -- 53
The National Film Board of Canada is a unique centre for the creation of audio-Lisu- al materials. Its mandate remains to produce and distribute films and other audio- visual works intended for Canadian audiences and foreign markets, in order to increase vieLvers’s knowledge and understanding of the social and cultural realities of Canada.
Its films are produced in both official languages through its English and French programs, b y in-house and independent filmmakers across the country. The NFB mairitains production facilities in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal. Moncton and Halifax.
The NFB has a network of distribution partners, the majority of which are public libraries, to provide access to NFB films and videos, thus ensuring the NFB’s pres- ence in al1 provinces and territories. NFB productions are often aired by convention- al and specialty broadcasters alike, and Canadians can easily purchase NFB videos seven days a week, by calling its toll free-number. Internationally, the NFB has offices in London, Paris and New York.
The NFB is an integrated production and distribution organization, with an exten- sive film collection, a conservation laboratory, post-production, and research and development facilities located at its operational headquarters in Montreal. Its Corporate Affairs service operates from Ottawa, while Communications, Human Resources, Administration, Planning and Evaluation services are principally located in Montreal.
Sandra IVlacdonald Govcirnment Film Commissioner and Chairperson
Barbara Janes Director Generai English Program
üoris Girard Director Generai French Program
Maryse Charboiineau Director Administration
René Villeneuve Director Technical Services and Informatics
Guy Càaiithier Director Human Resaurces
JoanneLeduc Director International Program
Claude Parent Director Planning, Program Evaluation and Audit
Sandra Macdonald Government Film Commisioner and Chairperson
Patricia R. O’Brien Adjunct Professor Memonal Universitj. of Nefl,foundland St. John’s, Newfoundland
John Douglas Keniiy Vice-Chairperson Photographer Vancouver, British Columbia
Franpis N. Macerola Exccutive Director Teiefïim Canada
Michelle Courchesne Gencral Managcr Orcheïtrc sj,mphonique d e Montréal Montreal, Quebec
Carolyn Foui’ieros Writcr and Journalist Sudbury, Ontario
Michele S. Jean Dep~ty Ministcr Health Canada
The Board of Trustees of t h e National Film Board of Canada consists of eight mem- bers. Six members represent the people of Canada, while the çeventh member is the Executive Director of Telefilm Canada. The Government Film Commiçsioner actç as Chairperson of the Board.
During the period covered by this annual report, Michèle S. Jean completed her three-year term on August 8, 1996. Also, the appointment of Michelle Courchesne for a terrn of three yearç was announced on December 5, 1996. As in the paçt year, there were two vacancies on the Board.
An overview of the past fiscal year would have to include diverse and often difficult images as we consider the momentous changes faced, and ultimately addressed, at the National Film Board of Canada. The financial constraints we absorbed brought with them a dramatic transformation in not only the NFB’s interna1 operations and client services but also in the long-established culture of the agency. Nevertheless, the NFB has done very well this year, and its ability to produce and distribute euem- plary productç despite various setbacks is encouraging as we look to the future.
But first to the review at hand. Our annual record of the year past presents the NFB English Program and French Program productions completed between April 1, 1996 and March 31, 1997, lists the numerous and varied awards garnered by NFB produc- tions and personnel during the fiscal period, summarizes the highlights and includes the financial statements.
Following a thorough açsessment of how the NFB should best deal with the current round of budgetary restrictions, the agency implemented its restructuring plan at the beginning of this fiscal year.
The changes notwithstanding, both English and French programs continued to pro- duce and release audio-visual productions distinguished by their high standard of information, innovation and entertainment, and cultural observers continued to laud NFB filmmakers. The Québec government recognized Jacques Giraldeau’s lifetime of achievement in al1 facets of filmmaking and hiç outstanding contributions to cine- matic cultiire by according him the province’s highest distinction for cinematic achievement, the Albert-Tessier Award (cinema).
Major Canadian honours were given to several NFB productions and co-produc- tions. Place of the Boss: ütshimassits directed by John Walker and produced by NFB Atlantic Centre in co-production with John Walker Productions and Triad Films, won the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s Donald Brittain Award for Best Documentary Program. The Mind of a Cbild, directed by Gary Marcuse and produced by Face To Face Media in co-production with the NFB Pacific Centre, won the Academy’s Canada Award.
At RendeT-vous du cinéma québecois, Pierre Hébert’s La Plante humaine, the first feature-length animation film produced by the NFB, was awarded the prize for Best Feature Film by the Quebec film critic’s association and Québec’s cultural develop- ment agericy. The Gémeaux prize for best documentary was won by Marquise Lepage’s The Lost Garden - the Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché, and for his work on Le Sort de l’Amérique, Jacques Godbout collected the Hot Docs! award for Best Direction of a Documentary.
Among achievements for animation shorts, Janet Perlman’ç Dinner For Two/Dîner intime took the Grand prix des Amériques for Best Short Film at Montreal’s World Film Festival; animator Richard Condie completed his comic opera La Salla, pro- duced by NFB Prairie Centre, in time for the Fall festival season and saw its acclaim build through to last February when it was nominated for an Oscar@, the NFB’s 61st nom in a t ion.
Millions of Canadians see NFB productions on television every year. Viewership fig- ures available to us are very conservative, however, since many of Our broadcast partners do not release ratings data. That considered, English Program productions accrued well over 34 million viewers in 1996-97. French Program calculates its pro- ductions and co-productions were seen by approximately five million people. Large numbers of Canadians are also seeing NFB films in the cinemas. Four of Our short films were paired with a number of U.S. and foreign feature films in the past year
while a handful of NFB feature documentaries had theatrical runs, for a total audi ence of about three million.
As the next millennium approaches, the NFB continues to adapt to the communica- tions preferences of tomorrow, ensuring we retain a strong brand name among local and international film and television audiences and build top-of-mind awareness in the l~urgeoning on-line community.
1 have already outlined a small portion of our big and small screen accomplishments, but we have made gains in other media as well. In December, English Program made a quantum advance with the launch of the NFB Kids website as an adjunct to the main NFB site. NFB Kids’ (http://www.nfb.ca/kids) main attraction is The Prince and 1, a fun , interactive production to encourage children to improve their literacy skills. in general, activity on the NFB’s Internet site has been impressive. Launched in 1995, it was completely renovated in 1996 and won the Grand Prix Boomerang 1996 in the Corporate Internet Site category at an interactivity day organized by Les Éditions Info Presse in collaboration with Vidéotron, Apple and Qukbecor Muli.imedia. Each day, the site hosts an average of 3,000 visitors (and that number is growing!) who browse through some 120,000 pages, investigate 10,000 film titles with accompanying photos and detailed data, 100,000 filmographies and 78 sections. Our site visitors don’t hesitate to use this new communications tool to communicate with the NFB -the proof is in the more than 1,600 e-mail messages we received during the year.
Ne\+ media are already delivering new audiences to the NFB and we intend to hold their attention by working with strategic partners - including, among others, fello\k federal institutions such as the National Archives and the National Library - to cre- ate clynamic multimedia and Internet-based projects.
The National Film Board of Canada has been through a year of dramatic change and has now become much more than its name suggests. Honoured by the International Documentary Association las1 Fall for Our efforts to preserve, archive and catalogue O u r çizable film collection, the NFB is now also strengthening its ability to inform and entertain from a Canadian perspective in several exciting new media. Nol con- tent simply to maintain Our existing audiences, we are building awareness of the agency, Our substantive products and potential among the younger age group, with a view to sharing out- point-of-view with more and more media consumers both for now and for tomorrow.
Santira Macdonald Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson
The beginning of the 1996 fiscal year brought with it the early phases of the implementation of the current round of budgetary restraints. Every sector of the NFB faced cuts in personnel and interna1 services and began to re-structure operations accordingly. Certain external services were also poised to disappear.
A number of NFB films were invited to participate in the prestigious INPUT conference, held in Guadalajara, Mexico. French Program films featured in the official selection included the Rights from the Heart - Part 2/Droits au c e u r - Volet 2 collection of seven animated shorts, produced by Thérèse Descary. From English Program, Joseph Viszmeg’s In My Own Time - Diary o f a Cancer Patient was included in the pre-selection group.
More than three years after it \vas first ielecast in Canada, the mini-series The Boys of St. Vincent won a Peabody Award May 6 in New York City. The Peabody is considered to be the most prestigious prize offered by the American broadcast and cable industry. Conceived and initiated by Sam Grana and John N . Smith at the NFB, the two-part series was directed by Smith, written by Des Walsh, Smith and Grana and produced by Claudio Luca for Les Productions Tblb- Action inc. and Grana for the IVFB.
Ratings bvere outstanding for a May 30, 1996 broadcast of When Women Kil l , a co-production with Morag Productions Inc. and directed by Barbara Doran, which achieved an audience of 1.6 million on Britain’s Channel 4. Early in 1997, La Grippe, co-produced by NFB French Program and Les Films d’Ici of Paris, achieved even higher ratings: two million viewers tuned in for the January 23 broadcast on France 2.
The NFB certainly made a strong impres- sion in Canadian theatres: 1996-97 saw numerous NFB titles exhibited on the “big screen”, mith at least three million viewers enjoying our productions. While NFB animation shorts - screened ahead of feature films - accounted for the bulk of the audience, many filmgoers also turned out for a variety of NFB documen- tary features, both in Canada and abroad.
As part of an agreement with Fanious Players theatres, and with the coopera- tion of various feature film distributors, NFB animated films hitting the theatres included: hlunro Ferguson’s How Dinosaurs Learned To Fly (with ib’ission: /mpossible:i; Craig Welch’s How Wings Are Attached to the Backs o f Angels (with Crash); Richard Condie’s La SaDa, the NFB’s 6 ls t Oscar@ nominee (with Secrets and Lies, Shine and Marvin’s Room); and Cordell Barker’s The Cat Came Back (with Jungle 2 Jungle).
Several NF B feature documentaries had theatrical runs, in some cases being held over more than once! From English Program, two productions from Ontario Centre hacl extended runs, Peter Lynch’s Project Grizzly and Ann Kennard’s The Powder Room. From French Program, Anne Claire Poirier’s final NFB film, Tu as crié LET M E GO played to critical acclaim on several screens in the Quebec capital and in the Montreal area; mean- time, Pierre Hébert’s La Plante humaine and .Jacques Godbout’s Le Sort de l’Amérique both received favourable reviews for their screen time in Quebec, and each t-iad a theatrical release in France. Le Sort de l’Amérique was also a big hit when the UFB hosted a special screening in Ociober, 1996 for about 350 people at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Godbout, along with collaborator Philippe Falardeau, took questions froni the audience following the screening.
This year, to mark the centenary of cinema, Canada Post created a series of 10 commemorative stamps; three honoured NFB films including: Hen Hop, a 1942 film by Norman McLaren, Pour la suite du monde, directed by Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault and released in 1963, and Claude Jutra’s 1971 master- piece Mon oncle Antoine.
John Grierson’s homeland saluted his contributions to the first 100 years of cinema by erecting a plaque in his hon- Our in the foyer of the MacRoberts Arts Centre at the University of Stirling in Stirling, Scotland. It reads: John Grierson (1898-î972j, Pioneer of the documentarj film, founder of the National Film Board of Canada.
The NFB retrieited filmmaking gold from its archives and made available, for the first time on home video, six acclaimed films by the late NFB filmmaker Bill Maçon. The collection screened in a cross-country tour during the month of May. a celebration of Maçon’s work, his passion for the canoe and his dedication to environmental conservation. The collection included the Oscar-nominated Paddle to the Sea as well as Song of the Paddle and Death o f a Legend.
Productions and co-productions submit- ted to the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival gathered seven Golden Sheaf Awards, including Best of the Festival, Best Documentary Over 30 Minutes and Best Original Music for Place of the Boss: Utshimassits. Directed by John Walker, Place of the Boss: L‘tshimassits was produced by the NFB Atlantic Cenlre (Mike Mahoney, producer), in co- production with John Walker productions (John Walker, producer) and Triad Filins (Peter d’Entremont, producer). Other Yorkton awards included: a Special Jury Award for Joseph Viszmeg’s In My Own Time - Diary o f a Cancer Patient, produced for the NFB North West Centre by Jerry Krepakevich, Graydon McCrea and Viszmeg; Best Children’s Production for the animated work The Reluctant Deckhand, directed by Jan Padgett and produced by George Johnson for the NFB Pacific Centre: Best Animation for JoDee Samuelson’s The Sandbox, produccd by Marilyn A. Belec out of the NFB Atlantic Centre; and the Best Multicultural/Race Relations award went to The Mind o f a Child, a co-production directed and produced by Gary Marcuse for Face To Face Media. NFB Pacific Centre producer was Svend-Erik Eriksen.
The annual Banff International Television Festival featured an NFB NorthWest Centre film in competition in stellar com- pany. Glynis Whiting’s The Sterilization of Leilani Muir competed in the Best Social & Political Documentary category alongside such celebrated films as Oscar winner Anne Frank Remembered from the Jon Blair Film Company and Lauderdale Productions’ Rettirn to the Dying Roomç.
French Program played a “best support- ing” role in celebrations of the centenary of cinema mounted by Pointe-a-Calliere, the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History. One of the key features of French Program involvement \vas the weekly screening of André Gladu’s film La Conquête du grand écran (co- produced with Nanouk Films Ltd.), a project which traces the progress of Quebec filmmaking over its first 100 years. The film loops in the exhibition’s six modules were produced by the NFB in cooperation with Pointe-a-Callière, the Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History, and Nanouk Films. The fact that one entire module \vas dedicated to the NFB in Quebec is proof of the agency’s central role in a century of filmmaking.
NFB films were also toasted at the Sunny Side of the Doc festival in Marseille (France) in June where more than 2,000 industry professionals from around the world gathered for the 7th Euro- Canadian Co-Production Forum. The NFB delegation took the opportunity to explore co-production opportunities for certain NFB titles and presented, among others, Jean Chabot‘s Sans raison appa- rente, Marquise Lepage’s Le Jardin oublié - La Vie et l‘Oeuvre d’Alice Guy-Blaché fThe Lost Garden - The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blaché), Une vie comme rivière by Diane Cailhier and Alain Chartrand, and Philippe Baylaucq’s Lodela. English-language films basking at the Marseille festival included Alanis Obomsawin’s My Name is Kahentiiosta, The Passerby by Don McWilliams, Anatomy of Desire by Jean-Francois Monette and Peter Tyler Boullata, and David Vaisbord’s Mischa.
The 1996 summer solstice saw both English and French programs acknowl- edging the importance of enhancing development of aboriginal filmmakers. English Program launched its Aboriginal Filmmaking Program, a three-year initia- tive encouraging aboriginal directors from across Canada to produce or co- produce film o r video projects. Under the AFP, filmmakers propose productions to the NFB; French Program, meantime, named René Sioui Labelle as the second candidate t o join its “cinéaste autochtone“ program. Begun in 1995, this endeavour allows one emerging filmmaker each year to spend a year within the French Program building filmmaking skills, developing and eventually producing the documentary project outlined in his or her application for the program. As an esample, the first candidate selected in this program, Joséphine Bacon, shot the film inastikuashu (Le Grand Petit Européen) during the summer of ‘96, and she expects to release it during 1997.
English Program appointed two members of what would become a three-person team of “cultural diversity” producers. Attached to the English Program docu- mentary program, these producers are responsible for helping to ensure that NFB filmmakers and productions reflect the diversity of Canadian Society.
The 1996 Summer Olympic Cames in Atlanta, Ga. featured some NFB “Canadian content” as Baseball Girls stole bases and athletes’ affections at screenings in the Olympic Village. Lois Siegel’s film from the NFB Ontario Centre arrived just in time for the debut of women’s softball as an Olympic medal sport. Baseball Girls extended its road trip from North America to Europe where it competed in the International Sports Film Festival in Palermo, Italy in November. The film scored a hit, collect- ing the Diploma from Palermo City for the “novelty of the point of view through which the history of the female role in American baseball has been reconstructed”.
As the summer lengthened, public and industry audiences gathered in Montreal for the 20th World Film Festival and saw the NFB join the official competition, festivities and market to screen 14 pro- ductions and co-productions. These included two animated shorts, I’m Your Man by Roslyn Schwartz and Dinner for Two/Dîner intime directed by Janet Perlman, in the main competitive catego- ry. Perlman’s film won the Grand prix des Amériques (First Prize) in the Best Short Film category. in official selection, outside of competition, was Jacques Godbout’s final NFB film, Le Sort de l’Amérique. The bulk of NFB presentations screened in the Panorama Canada section - a title truly reflective of the NFB selections in ‘96. This sector included four animated shorts: Les Drew’s Shyness, director Robert Doucet’s The Legend of the Flying Canoe, John Weldon’s Scant Sanity and Gayle Thomas’ Quilt. NFB documentaries included Ginette Pellerin’s Évangéline en quête (Evangeline‘s Quest), Renée Blanchar’s Vocation ménagère and Sans raison apparente from director Jean Chabot; Dorothy Todd Hénaut contributed You Won’t Need Running Shoes, Darling and Ann Kennard took viewers inside The Powder Room. Co-productions rounding out the NFB contingent were Paul Carrière’s Maman et Ève (Mum‘s the Word), co-produced by Médiatique Inc. and The Un-Canadians by Len Scher (Co-produced by Joanne Smale Communications Ltd.).
Hundreds of fans of NFB animation crowded the parking lot of Toronto’s Citytv on each of four Wednesday evenings in August for the fifth annual Street Screens presentations. The NFB Ontario Centre worked with the broad- caster to produce TV promotions, print advertising and on-screen trailers for the one-hour screenings, free to the public. Audiences could be heard singing along to the likes of Derek Lamb’s 1 Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly and Cordell Barker’s The Cat Came Back, holding candles aloft during Richard Condie‘s The Big Snit and tapping toes to Christopher Hinton’s Blackfly.
Throngs of cinephiles forgot about back- to-school in September and converged on Toronto theatres instead for the 21st Toronto International Film Festival. NFB titles - productions and co-productions - accounted for nine entries in the Perspective Canada program. Peter Lynch launched his ”Canadian Northern” feature documentary Project Grizzly while Ginette Pellerin brought the English version of her lateçt film, Evangeline’s Quest. Directors Philippe Baylaucq and Richard Condie treated Toronto audiences to world premiere screenings of their shorts, Lodela and La Salla respectively. The NFB co-produced five titles in Perspective Canada, including: the world premiere of the first feature animation made by the NFB, Pierre Hébert‘s La Plante humaine (Co-produced by Arcadia Films, France); Magnus Isacsson’s feature documentary Power (Co-produced by Cineflix 1nc.J; Maman et Ève (Mum’s the Word) (Co-produced by Médiatique Inc.) from Paul Carrière; Serge Giguère’s 9 St-Augustin (Co-produced by Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc inc.); and The Road Taken (Co-produced by Selwÿn Enterprises Inc.) by director Selwyn Jacob.
The Canadian arts specialty TV Channel, Bravo!, aired a six-week series of pro- grams featuring new animation from the NFB. Entitled The National Film Board 1996 Animation Festival: Short Animated Canadian, the series inter sperses cleverly crafted interviews with 13 ne\v animated shorts and a ”signature” segment featuring old footage of the NFB’s father of animation, Norman McLaren.
The NFB established a new record for the number of its films invited to the Atlantic Film Festival as 23 productions and co- productions screened. Among the NFB productions in attendance, six had their world preniieres in Halifax: Bronwen and Yaffa: Moving Towards Tolerance, directed by Peter d’Entremont, Norway’s Lofoten Cod Fishery from director Nigel Markham, John McGreevy’s The Danger Tree (al1 from NFB Atlantic Centre), along with Love Taps, a film by Annie O’Donoghue (NFB Pacific Centre), Loretta Tocld’s Forgotten Warriors (NFB North West Centre) and Packing Heat, directed by Wendy Rowland and produced at the NFB in Montreal. A varied slatr of French- and English- language, animation and documentary films and videos rounded out the NFB’s extensive presence at the Atlantic Festival.
The French Program production Épopée, from filmmaker Hermenégilde Chiasson, collected the prize for Best Documentary at the Festival d e Namur in Belgiuni in eariy Octoiier. Évangéline en quête (Evangeline’s Quest), directed by Ginette Pellerin, alco n o n a special mention from the jury at the same festival.
The NFB Ontario Centre kicked off cele- brations of‘ its 20th anniversary with the September launch of a 13-week series on TVOntario. The NFB Showcase series - which was repeated in the spring of 1997 - originally aired Thursday evenings on the provincial broadcaster and featured some of the best documentary and drama productions of the Centre’s first two decades. Selections included Barry Greenwald’s dissection of the canadian immigration system, Who Gets in?, Sturla Gunnarsson’s dramatic coming- of-age chronicle focusing on Canada‘s autoworkers’ union, Final Offer and director David Adkin’s Out: Stories of Lesbian and Gay Youth.
Every two years, the Ottawa International Animation Festival gathers growing and full-grown talents in the Canadian capital at a festival as much about artistry as moving pictures. The NFB presence in 1996 involved nine celebrated productions along with retrospectives of the oeuvres of two long-time NFB animators, Kaj Pindal and Derek Lamb. In the competi- tion, Robert Doucet’s The Legend of the Flying Canoe won the Viacom Canada Prize for Best Canadian Production and Paul Driessen’s The End of the World in Four SeasonsLa Fin d u monde en qua- tre saisons captured honours as the Best Production between 10 and 30 minutes as well as the Best Music/Sound Award for Normand Roger’s score. Outside the competitive ranks, screenings included such NFB classics as Two Sisters by Caroline Leaf. Claude Cloutier’s Overdose, David Fine and Alison Snowden’s Bob‘s Birthday, Strings by Wendy Tilby, Cordell Barker’s The Cat Came Back and Sheldon Cohen’s The Sweater. A special presentation featured Pierre Hébert’s full-length feature, La Plante humaine.
NFB New York made arrangements to allow Encore Cable Network to distri- bute NFB titles to 138 Ronald McDonald Houses in the United States, where residents will be able to see Our pro- grams via closed circuit television. Ronald McDonald House is a non- profit organization which provides a short-term “home away from home” for families with seriously il1 children.
Festival fever continued on into October as the NFB presented nine productions and co-productions and a total of two world premieres at the Vancouver International Film Festival. John Forrest’s short documentary (NFB Pacific Centre) on the natural history of crows, Seven Crows A Secret, and Teresa MacInnes and Penny Wheelwright’s Under Wraps (produced by Starry Night Productions in association with the NFB Pacific Centre) both launched at the Vancouver festival. In addition, five other documentaries and two animation shorts entertained west Coast audiences - including Richard Condie‘s La Salla, which won the prize for Best Animation.
Toutatis, a film by director Catherine Fol, captured the Ministry of Culture and Communications P r i x awarded to Quebec’s Best Science Film at the TéléScience Festival. This medium- length documentary combines virtual imagery and fascinating ruminations on our planet’s destiny.
The NFB participated in two particularly interesting, bilingual television events this year. The film Referendum - Take Z/Prise deux, a unique production created through the collaboration of 23 filmmakers from both English and French programs, al1 led by “director in charge” Stéphane Drolet. The production was broadcast in English on CBC Newsworld on October 27 and presented in French on Canal D on the 29th. A week earlier, the NFB hosted a screening of the film at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa before an enthusiastic crowd of 300. A number of the filmmakers who worked on the production attended along with producers .Adam Symansky and Jacques Vallée. The productions were released one year after the 1995 Quebec referendum on whether Quebec should reniain in Canada or negotiate nationhood.
Another project linking the two Programs, and one which also met with great success, invoived the compilation Children First! and Les Enfants d’abord!, produced by the NFB in association with UNICEF (Canada), Reader’s Digest Canada and CBC. These productions, created to help promote the 50th anniversary of UNICEF, were both televised nationally on December 15 - designated by UNICEF as International Children’s Day of Broadcastitig - with Children First! airing on CBC and Les Enfants d’abord! on SRC.
French Program chose the Festival du Cinéma intcrnational en .4bitibi- Tcmiscamingue as the venue for the unveiling of the first film in Droits au cœur - Volet 3/Rights from the Heart - Part 3. The film receiving its world premiere at this northern Quebec festival w a s Cilia Sawadogo’s short animation, Le Joueur de CoralThe Cora Player. Droits au cmur/Rights from the ffeari features short works of animation aimed at reminding audiences of the need to respect the rights of children, no matter their cultural o r social status.
The National Film Board’s exemplary work in “conserving, archiving and cataloguing the thousands of films in its collection” earned the agency the pres- tigious Preservation and Scholarship Award from the International Documen- tary Association (IDA). NFB Chairperson and Government Film Commissioner Sandra Macdonald and acclaimed film- maker Colin Low accepted the award on behalf of the NFB at a gala ceremony November 1 in Santa Monica, California. Based in Los Angeles, the IDA represents appi-osimately 1,500 memberç from around the world.
In November, Les Journées cinémato- graphiques d’Orléans paid tribute to the filminaking career of Pierre Perrault. Several of his films were scrcened and noted filmmakers Bertrand làvernier and Michael Lonsdale attended and participated in discussions following the presentation. In addition, the Musée d u Jeu de Paume also organized a retrospective of Perrault’s work.
Doris Girard was appointed Director General of French Program in mid- November. Formerly Assistant Director General, Production, in the French Program, Ms. Girard had preLiously served as Executive Producer in that Program’s drama studio and worked in the production milieu in the private sector.
An NFB co-production, Maman et Ève (Mum’s the Word), won the Genie Award for E5est Shori Documentary as part of a presentation held in Toronto and broad- cast nationally on CBC Television. The Genies celebrate the highest achieve- ments in Canadian filmmaking, specifical- ly films exhibited theatrically. Maman et Ève \vas directed by Paul Carrière and co- produced by Danitle Calor. of Médiatique Inc. and Jacques Ménard of the French Program Studio documentaire Ontario/Ouest.
The NFB played a key role in an interna- tional drama set in the dense jungle of Myanmar when an NFB director, Garth Pritchard, and his cameraman, Daron Donahue, joined a Canadian team sent to South-East Asia to recover the remains of an RCAF airplane and its six-man crew. The film resulting from that trip will help to explain why the Dakota C-47 crashed in what was then known as Burma, in 1945, and how the wreckage remained undetected until first seen by a native hunter in 1990. The documentary, Lost Over Burma, is set against the back- drop of the final months of World War II , and includes footage of family and friends of the victims as well as the burial cere- inonies in far-away Myanmar. Lost Over Burma will be released in 1997.
In December, the 1996 Quebec Awards paid tribute to filmmaker Jacques Giraldeau and his body of work by iiam- ing him recipient of the Albert-Tessier Acvard. Jacques Giraldeau, who recently retired froni the NFB, produced 165 short, medium and full-length films during the course of his career, most of which he spent at the NFB.
Long a centre of technological innovation and achievement, the NFB has enhanced its reputation for achiewment and public service with the launch 11995) and subse- quent renovation (1996) of its Internet site (http://www.nfb.ca). The site boasts no fewer than 120,000 pages, inforins in detail on 10,000 film titles, provides 100,000 filmographies, and includes a total of 78 sections! And the world is watching: by autumn of 1996, the site hosted an average of 2,000 visitors a day (this number had risen to 3,000 by the end of March 1997) and had \von the 1996 Boomerang Grand Prize in the Corporate Internet Site category at an interactivity day organized by Les Éditions Info Presse in collaboration with Vidéotron, Apple and Québecor Multimedia. The site iç naturally a tremendous reservoir of‘ infor- mation - a favourite among University film students - but it also alerts iisitors as to how they can access or purchase O u r videoç o r interactive titles. The NFB’s Research and Developnient section pro- vided original technical debelopment, with content furnished by Communications; in 1996, Communications led the restruc- turing and reorganization of the site.
The National Film Board unwrapped an early Christmas preçent for children with its December 11 launch of the NFB Kids site on the Internet. Reflecting the NFB’s reputation for innovating, entertaining and educating, the site’s main attraction is a fun, interactive production entitled The Prince and 1. The Prince, a non-reader, encourages site viçitors to enhance their literacy skills and help him out in any number of challenges and quandaries. The Prince and 1, on the Internet at http://www.nfb.ca/kids, is enjoyable and instructive for children of differing ages and skill levels. The production was directed by André Lauzon, produced by Pierre Lapointe, with Isobel Marks as executive producer. French Program Studio jeunesse began developing a French adaptation of thiç site, entitled Le Prince et moi, which will be launched in the Fall of 1997.
French Program extended the utility of the NFB Internet site early in January by inviting viewers of the January G broad- cast of Bébé Bonheur to “chat” with numerous people connected to the film following its broadcast on the TVA Network. Viewers could go to the special site - www.onf.ca/bebebonheur - to get in touch with a sexologist, a comedian, a participant from the film and director Jeannine Gagné.
NFB Paris collaborated in the official opening of the Canadian Cultural Centre in the French capital on January 22. Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, NFB Commissioner Sandra Macdonald and representatives from several other cultural institutions attended the inauguration.
The long-distance video-on-demand project, CinéRoute, developed by the NFB and tested last year thanks to a partnershig agreement with Vidéotron Telecom Ltd., saw its network extended with the addition of the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. Initially, the CineRoute project involved only the University of Quebec at Montreal and McGill Uni,versity. Students and teachers at UQAC can now use the Internet to study the NFB film titles available a t the NFB’s CineRobotheque location in down- town Montreal; they can then download and transmit the title they choose, via a fibre optic network established by Vidéotron Telecom, and see i t at their auditorium in Chicoutimi
February I l , 1997: the National Film Board celebrated its Glst Oscar@ nomina- tion from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences as Richard Condie’s comic opera La Salla (NFB Prairie Centre) was nominated for Best Short Film - Animated. The NFB took advan- tage of the film’s high profile to arrange for the short to screen ahead of three Oscar-nominated features: Marvin’s Room, Secrets 8 Lies, and Shine. In addition, the prized nomination brought a great deal of news and current affairs attention to the film, in al1 media and across Canada.
The NFB and OXFAM-Canada jointly saluted International Women’s Day with a six-City launch of the feature documentary Zandile dans la lumière d e I‘Ubuntu (Zandile, in the Light o f Ubuntu). Michel Régnier directed this profile of Zulu Zandile Gumede, described as “the lead- ing light of Amaoti, an immense district on the outskirts of Durban, South Africa’s third-largest City”. Zandile leads other women in struggles which continue despite thci end of apartheid, battling against ignorance, violence, chauvinism and other social ills. Screenings of the film began in Halifax at the end of February and continued through the first part of March in St. John’s, Vancouver, Victoria, Ottawa and Montreal.
International Program completed a major sale of more than 50 NFB anima- tion titles to the U.S. Cartoon Network, which boasts a subscriber base in the U.S. of some 40 million homes. The cable spe- cialty service programmed the shorts for broadcast in a weekly half-hour time slot as part of its “Big Wednesday” lineup. Entitled O Canada, the series was intro- duced each week with a special rendition of Canada’s national anthem sung by Canadian folk artiçts Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Broadcasts of O Canada commenced March 5 and included such titles as The Cat Came Back, Strings, Blackfly, Cactus Swing, Bob’s Birthday and La Salla. The NFB also closed a major sale of 29 animation titles to Britain’s Channel 4.
Three NFB productions and co- productions took prestigious awards at the annual Gemini Award celebrations for excellence in Canadian television, held this year in Toronto. Place o f the Boss: Utshirnassits triumphed with the Donald Brittain Award for Best Documentary Program. Directed by John Walker, the film was produced by the NFB Atlantic Centre in co-production with John Walker Productions and Triad Films. Joseph Viszmeg, director of In M y Own Time: Diary o f a Cancer Patient, added to a string of awards with the Gemini for Best Direction in a Documentary Program. This year’s Canada Award, wnhich celebrates productions promoting multiculturalism, went to The Mind of a Child, produced by Face To Face Media in co-production with the NFB Pacific Centre.
Two NFB IMAX productions had extensive theatrical exposure this year. The First Emperor o f China screened in Singapore, Portland (Oregon), Seville (Spain) and Denver (Colorado); meanwhile, Mystery of the Maya drew audiences at theatres in Paris, Vienna, Hong Kong, Washington, Albuquerque, Baltimore and Cocoa Beach.
Three NFB films were given the nod at the closing ceremonies of the 15th edition of the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in March. Pierre Hébert’s La Plante humaine, his first feature-length anima- tion film, won the A.Q.C.C.-SODEC prize for the best Quebec feature film. The prize for the best medium-length film went to Jean Chabot’s Sans raison apparente, while J’aime, j’aime pas, by Sylvie Groulx won two prizes - Lucie Laurier, the film’s lead actress. received the Luce Guilbault prize for most promising young actor, and the SARDEC prize was awarded t o Sylvie Groulx and Jacques Marcotte for best screenplay.
The NFB brought lots of sizzle to the 4th Annual Hot Docs! festival in Toronto, scoring a record 20 nominations for its productions and co-productions. English and French program productions stood tall following the gala awards evening, taking home the following prizes: Best Director of a Documentary t o Jacques Godbout for Le Sort de l’Amérique; Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold, from director Danièle Lacourse and co- produced by Alter-Ciné Inc., won in the Best Feature category and shared the Best of the Fest prize with Donka, the X-Ray of an African Hospital; Loretta Todd’s Forgotten Warriors - still warrn from an appearance at the Native Forum at the Sundance Film Festival - won in the Best Biography/History category; director Don McWilliams thanked more than one mentor, including Norman McLaren, as he captured the Best Cultural documentary award for The Passerby; Lodela added to director Philippe Baylaucq’s honours by winning for Best Short; and Jeff Warren was selected for Best Editing (picture) for his cvork on John Walker’s Tough Assignment, a co-production with Orbit Films
On March 26, an audience of more than 350 gathered at the National Gallery in Ottawa for a celebration of the NFB’s successes at the Oscars - Our animation successes, in particular. The program for the evening included Our 1997 Oscar nominee, Richard Condie’s La Salla.
Native filmmaker Loretta Todd won the Best Short Documentary Program p r i x for Forgotten Warriors at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco and, for Hands of History, Todd won a Gold Apple Award from the National Educa- tional Media Network Competition in Oakland, California. Additional Gold Apples from Oakland went to Arkelope, from animator Roslyn Schwartz and l3ab.y Business, directed by Judy Jackson and co-produced with Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc. Al1 in all, the NFB, along with its îilmmakers and productions, won more than 100 awards during the year.
For sheer number and diversity of awards, Lodela stands out. Philippe Baylaucq’s acclaimed production echoing Norman McLaren’s classic, Pas d e deux, won the following this year: special mention by the NFB John Spotton Award jury selecting the Best Short Film at the Toronto International Film Festival; Award of Excellence for the Best Film o r Video Under 60 Minutes at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax; award for Best Choreography for the camera at the Moving Pictures Festival in Toronto; award for Best Canadian Film at the International Art Film Festival in Montreal; Best Short Film prize from the Canadian lndependent Film Caucus’ Hot Docs! awards; and the prize for Best Photography at the international Visual Arts Festival (Mediawave) in Gyor, Hu n g ary.
Our marketing personnel counted many important successes, including the popu- lar decision to package on video, for the first time, six of the wonderful films by NFB filmmaker, canoeist and environmen- talist Bill Mason, including Paddle to the Sea. Sales have been strong, reach- ing nearly 300 units of the six- video package entitled The Bill Mason Collection. Another very successful package has been A Kid’s View of Canada which sold more than 4,000 copies by year-end. Among high sellers in the video market, Alain Chartrand and Diane Cailhier’s Une vie comme rivière did very well with sales in excess of 2,200 copies, while Jacques Godbout’s Le Sort de l’Amérique had sold more than 1,800 copies by the end of March. 1997. We also had outstanding success with the bilingual joint venture co-production from the NFB and Reader’s Digest Canada cele- brating the 50th anniversary of LINICEF. The English film, Children First!, sold 8,500 copies while the French filni. Les Enfants d’abord!, sold 3,500 copies.
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Telecasts in Canada 3 967
Film and video rentals and b a n s (NFB and partners) 234 600
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I O 0 DESSINS DI~SSOLJS 46:35 video Director: Robert Awad Producer: Jacques Vallée
Compilation of animated shorts with French original shooting produced by the NFB (French Program/Documentary - Montreal) with the collaboration of the Société Radio-Canada
'49 - UN soiJi-iu IIE c:oi-Èi?i: From the CSN . cinq t cmps d'un niouic~rnc'nt co l lec t io n 5128 video Director. Sophie Bissonnette Producer: Claude Cartier and
Marcel Simard iLcï Fiin15 L'irayei, Nicole Lamothe ( N F B I
French original documentary produced by Les Films Virage in co-production with the NFB (French Program/Docu- mentary - Work and the Workpiace), with the financial participation of Télé- Québec, Gouvernement du Québec (Tax Credit Program), Telefilm Canada, SODEC, The Cable Production Fund. Government of Canada (Tax Credit Programl and the Université du Québec a Montréal
À L'ONIBRE/ LJNDEH THE WEATHER
6:lO 35 mm, video Director: Tali Producer: Pierre Hébert, Yves Leduc
Multilingual original animated short produced by the NFB (French Programi Animation)
BARBED WlRE AND MANDOLINS
-riil: AIR WI: I~RI:A-I-I~IE 48:4fi video Director: Jim Hamm Producers: Jim Hamm
IJinini Hamni Productions Ltd.1, George Johnson I Y t B i
English original documentary produced by Jim Hamm Productions Ltd. in co- production with the NFB (English ProgramiDocumentary - West - Vancouver)
AS KING DI FFER E N'r
SCIITNCE From the As I f People Mattered series 51:OO 16 mm, video Directors: Gwynne Basen, Erna Buffie Producers: Merit Jensen-Carr
QuEs-rioNs: WOMEN AND
(Artcmis 2000 Films Inc.), Signe Johansson, Margaret Pettigrew, Ginnv Stikemann IYFB)
English original documentary pro- duced by Artemis 2000 Films Inc. in co-production with the NFB (English Program/Docurnentary - East - Montreal), with the assistance of Gouvernement du Québec (Tax Credit Program), The Discovery Channel (Canada), Industry Canada, The Cable Production Fund, CFCF 12, The Canadian Film Development Corporation and The Canadian Independent Filin and Video Fund
BAR 13 If I I WI R II AN D MAN DO 1-1 N S 48:OO video Director: Nicola Zavaglia Producers: Sam Grana. Don Haia
English original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/ Documenta- ry - East - Montreal) in co-production with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
THE BARRENS Q u w r 44:07 video Director: Peter Blow Producerç: Peter Blow (Bar Harbour Films Inc.),
Martin Harbury (Lindum Film5 Inc.), Daniel Zuckerbrot ICBCi, Peter Starr lNFBI
English original documentary pro- duced by Bar Harbour Films Inc. in association with Lindum Films Inc., in co-production with the NFB (English Program/Documentary - Ontario) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in association with CFCF 12 and the
Saskatchewan Communications Network, with the assistance of the World Wildlife Fund Canada, with the participation of the Canadian Television and Cable Production Fund
BOR N Ii IJTTEK ITE 5 2 1 3 video Director: Bryan Smith Producers: Dale Phillips, J im Warner
and Bryan Smith IRlach Hat Production\ Inc.), Francis Damberger Inamberger Film arid Cattle Coriipdny), J e r r y Krepakevich and Graydon McCrea ( N F B I
English original documentary pro- duced by Black Hat Productions Inc. in co-production with the NFB (English ProgramiDocumentary - West - Edmonton), with the participation of Telefilm Canada, in association with TVOntario, CFCF 12 Montreal, CFCN 3 Calgary, Knowledge Network, CFRN Edmonton, CKY TV Winnipeg and S as kat c hew an Commun i cations Network
1-A CARIZSSE II'UNIS RIDE 38:59 16 mm, video Director: Diane Létourneau Producers: Josée Beaudet, J o a n n e Carr iè re
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/ Documenta- ry - Culture and Experimental)
CHI LDR 1 3 4 1-1 RST! 5 6 2 7 video Director: Jacques Vallée Producers: Adam Symansky,
Compilation of animated shorts with English original shooting produced by NFB (English Program/ Documentary - East - Montreal and French Program/I>ocumentary - Montreal) in collaboration with Selection/Reader's Digest and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Jacques Vallée, Don Haig
BRONWEN flr YAFFA (MOVING TOWAHDS TOLERANCE)
CHII~DRIiN 0 1 ' JERlJSAI-EM - Cà ES HO From the Children of Jerusalem series
27:16 video Director Peter d 'Entremont Producers Marilyn A. Belec, Don Haig,
English original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/ Documenta- ry - East - IHalifax)
Mike Mahoney
CANADA'S VISUAI,
CANADA EN INIAGES cd-rom
Direcior: Denis Daigneault Producers: Denis Daigneault and
HI sro iw cii is'roi R E 11 11
Isobel Marks INFBI, Frank Corcoran i C m a d i a n Muieum of (:i\iIimhnnl
Multilingual original CD-ROM pro- duced by NFB (English Program/ Animation, Children, Interactive - East) in co-production with the Canadian Museum of Civilization
CHII,I1IiEN OF JERUSALENI -
23:02 16 mm, video Direclor: Beverly Shaffer Producers: Don Haig, Beverly Shaffer
English original documentary produced by NFB (English ProgramiDocumentary - East - Montreal)
CHI 1-D R E M S PEAK 9:18 35 mm, video Directors: Bozenna Heczko,
Georgine Strathy Producers: Barr ie Angus McLean,
Marcy Page
English original animated short pro- duied by NFB (English Program/
East)
24:42 16 mm, vide0 Director Beverly Shaffer Animation, Children, Interactive - Producers Don Haig, Beverly Shaffer
English original documentary produced by NFB (E.nglish Program/ Documenta- ry - East - Montreal)
LA CONQUI% DU GRAND ECRAN 107:43 Director: André Gladu Producers:Anouk Brault ( N a n o u k k i l i m Itbei,
Nicole Lamothe IUFBI
French original documentary produced by Nanouk Films ltée in association with the NFB (French Program/ Docu- mentary - Work and the Workplace), with the financial participation and the collaboration of the SODEC, Telefilm Canada, Télé-Québec, Cable Production Fund, Gouvernement du Québec (Tax Credit Program), TV5 Quebec Canada and TFO - TVOntario
CRAZY, QUll-T From the 19.96 NFB Animation F'e5tival: Short Animated Canadian series 27:11 video Director: Donald McWilliams Producers: Barr ie Angus McLean,
Compilation of animated shorts with English original shooting produced by NFB (English Program/Animation, Children, Interactive - East) in association with Bravo!
David Verrall, Marcy Page
CLJRIOUS COSMOLOGIES From the 1996 NFB Animation Festival: Short Animated Canadian series 28:55 video Director: Donald McWilliams Producers: Barr ie Angus McLean,
Compilation of anirnated shorts with English original shooting produced by NFB (English Program/Animation, Children, Interactive - East) in association with Bravo!
David Verrall, Marcy P a g e
DANCE AND CINEMA 59:OO video D i r a [or Gilles Péloquin Producer: Gilles Péloquin
Compilation of films with English origi- nal shooting produced by NFB (French Procjram/Culture and Experimental)
DANSE II'I' CINEMA 55:OO video Director: Gilles Péloquin Producer: Gilles Péloquin
Compilation of films with French origi- nal shooting produced by NFB (French Program/Culture and Experimental)
IMSI-IAN - AMBASSADOR TO CHINA'S FlJNNY BONE 50:OO video Director: Guy Nantel Producers: lolande Cadrin-Rossignol,
Joanne Carr ière
English original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Culture and Experimental), in associ- ation with Bravo!
DAVID WITH F.A.S. 4436 video Director: Cil Cardinal Producers: Gil Cardinal and
Dorothy Schreiber IKdiiatn Productions Inc 1, Jer ry Mclntosh ICBC Newsnorld), J e r r y Krepakevich and Graydon McCrea IYFR)
English original documentary pro- duced by Kanata Productions Inc. in co-production with the NFB (English Program/Documentary - West - Edmonton) and CBC Newsworld
LA DÉIVIOCHKïIE AU POlJVOIR 13:20 video Director: Daniel Frenet te Producers: P ie r re Lapointe, lsobel Marks
French original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/Animation, Children, Interactive - East) with the financial participation of Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada/Secretariat d'Etat and the Secrétariat d'Etat (Canadian Heritage), and with the collaboration of the Groupe de recherche La Nation
LE DERNIER DES FRANCO- O NTAR I ENS 57:56 video Directors: Jean-Marc Larivière,
Producers: Michel Cloutier and Marie Cadieux
Cather ine Mensour (Nunaconi inc.1, Doris Gi rard (hI-Bl
French original documentary produced by Nunacom inc. in association with the NFB (French Program/Documentary - Ontario -West), with the financial par- ticipation of Telefilm Canada and the Société de développement de l'industrie cinématographique ontarienne (OFDC), with the collaboration of the TFO - TVOntario Fund Documentaires ontariens
DjNNER FOR TWO/ DINER INTIME From the ShowPeace series 7:15 35 mm, video Director: Jane t Per lman Producer: Barr ie Angus McLean
Multilingual original animated short produced by NFB (English Program/ Animation, Children, Interactive - East) in association witlî UNICEF
DINNER FOR TWOmNER INTIME
FENNARIO - HIS WORI-11 ON STAGE
mi: DREANIS OF THE NI CXEANERS 46:30 video Director Leila Sujir Producers Leila Sujir ILRS Productions
Sara Diamond (The Bdni t Cenier for the Arts), Jerry Krepakevich and Graydon McCrea (NFB)
Enalish oriainal documentarv mo- duced by LgS Productions Lid: in co-production with the NFB (English Program/Documentary - West - Edmonton) and The Banff Centre for the Arts
LES ENFANTS D’ABORD! 62:47 video Director: Jacques Vallée Producers: Jacques Vallée, Adam Symansky
Compilation of animated shorts with French original shooting produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Montreal and English Program/ Documentary - East - Montreal) in collaboration with Selection/Reader’s Digest and the Société Radio-Canada
EPOPÉE 53:19 35 mrn, video Director: Herménégilde Chiasson Producer. Pierre Bernier
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Acadia)
ERNIE’S IDEA 1246 35 mm. video Directors: Claire Maxwell, Peter Vogier Producers: Svend-Erik Eriksen,
Barbara Janes
English original animated short pro- duced by NFB (English Program/ Animation, Children, Interactive - West - Vancouver)
46:03 video Director: N e c G. MacLeod Producers: Mark Zannis, Don Haig
English original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/Documentary - East - Montreal), in association with Bravo!
LE FEU SACRE 77:42 16 mm, video Director: André Gladu Producers: Marcel Giroux IGPA Films inc.),
Yves Rivard and Nicole Lamothe INFB)
French original documentary produ- ced by GPA Films inc. in co-production with the NFB (French Program/Docu- mentary -- Work and the Workplace), with the financial participation of Telefilm Canada, SOGIC, Radio-Québec and Gouvernement du Québec (Tax Credit Program)
LES FILLES AlJX ALLlJM ETTES From the CSN : cinq temps d’un mouvement collection 51:30 video Director: Patricio Henriquez Producers: Marcel Simard and Luc Vanda1
I Les F i l m Viragel, Nicole Lamothe INFBI
French original documentary produced by Les Films Virage in co-production with the NFB (French Program/Docu- mentary -- Work and the Workplace)
47:50 video Director: Daniel Prouty Producers: Kent Martin, Don Haig
English original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/Documentary - East - Montreal)
FLY P A S cd-rom
Director: Denis Daigneault Producer5: Denis Daigneault, lsobel Marks
English original CD-ROM produced by NFB (English Program/Animation, Children, Interactive - East) in co- production with the National Museum of Aviation and Canadian Heritage Information Network
LE FRANCAIS AUX CHEVEUX ROUGES 26:45 video Director: Monika Ille Producer: Colette Blanchard
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Montreal)
LE GRAND TUMULTE From the C S N : cinq femps d‘un mouvement collection 51:30 video Director: Magnus Isacsson Producers: Marcel Simard and Claude Cartier
(Les Films Virage), Nicole Lamothe (NFB)
French original documentary produced by Les Films Virage in co-production with the NFB (French ProgramiDocu- mentary - Work and the Workplace)
LA GRIPPII 75:55 video Director: Bruno Carrière Producers: Eric Michel (UFBI,
French original documentary produ- ced by NFB (French Program/Docu- mentary - Society and Science) in co-production with Les Films d’lci and France 2
Yves Jeanneau (Les Films d’lci)
IiOW WINGS ARE ATTACHIZD TO -riil: RACKS OF ANGIILSI CONIMENT LES AILES soN-r ATTACHEES AU DOS DES ANGES
11:05 35 mm, video Director Craig Welch Producers: Barrie Angus McLean,
Marcy Page
Ij- &RIT DElJX 1-01s UNE ELEC’I’ION 55:23 16 mm, video Director: Yves Bisaillon Producers: Mikale-Andree Joly,
French original documentary produced by NFB (French ProgramfDocumentary - Ontario - West)
Jacques Menard
IN TIiE ANINIKïOR’S EYE - CO IiQIIDIIlUIAN Froni the In the Anirndtor’s E j c series 50:20 video Dire( tor isabelle Turcotte Producer Thérese Descary
Conipilation of animated shorts with English original shooting produced by NFB (French Program/Animation)
A C~ONJlJRER’S TAI-ES -
LE JARIIIN II’kCOS/ THE GARDEN OF ECOS 10:45 35 mm, video Director: Co Hoedeman Prodiicer: Thérèse Descary
LE JOUEUR IIII C:ORA/ THE CORA PLAYEH From the Droits au cnwYRights from the Hear7 collection 7:05 35 mm, video Director: Cilia Sawadogo Producers: Gaston Kaboré
ICinecoiii Pmductionl, Françoise Wera i<)prdcornl, Thérèse Descary INFBi
Multilingual original animated short produced by Cinecom Production, in association with Opracom and NFB (French Program/Animation), with the financial participation of the Canadian Embassy in Burkina Faso, the Agency for Cultural and Technical (ACCT) Cooperation, the United Nations Association in Canada - Quebec chapter, the Swiss Developinent Cooperation (SDC) and the Burkina Faso State Television, with the support of Canadian Heriiage, UNICEF International, PREMIERE Medien GmbH & Co. KG., Télé-Québec and TFO - TVOntario
KKI’HI-EEN SHANNON: ON FILM, FlINllNlSNl & OTIiER DHEAMS
Multilingual original animated short produced by NFB (English Program/ Animation, Children, Interactive - East)
Muliilingual original animated short procluced by NFB (French Program/ Anirnat i on)
Frorn the faikrng 14’on-icn scries 49:53 video Director: Gerry Rogers Producers: Signe Johansson, Ginny Stikeman
English original documentary produced by NFB (English Prograni/Studio D)
LA SALLA 8:11 35 mm, video Director: Richard Condie Producers: Ches Yetman, Richard Condie
English original animated short pro- duced by NFB (English Program/Ani- mation, Children, Interactive - West)
LEGEND & LANGUAGE From the 1096 NFB Aninmtion Fesîivûl: Short Animatt,d Ciinadiün series 2856 video Director: Donald McWilliams Producers: Barrie Angus McLean,
English original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/Animation, Children, Interactive - East) in associa- tion with Bravo!
David Verrall, Marcy Page
10:35 35 mm, video Director: Robert Doucet Producers: Bill Pettigrew, Marcy Page,
Barrie Angus McLean
English original animated short pro- duced by NFB (English ProgramIAni- mation, Children, Interactive - East)
LISTENIMG FOR SONII_THING ... AUHIENNE I?ICH AND DIONNE BRAND IN CX~NVERSATION From the T,ilking Il’ornen series 3558 16 mm, bide0 Director Dionne Brand Producen Signe Johansson, Ginny Stikeman
English origi by NFB (Eng
na1 lish
documentary produce Program/Studio D)
LA SALLA
I-ODEI,A 26:22 video Director: Philippe Baylaucq Producer: lolande Cadrin-Rossignol
English original artistic video produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Culture and Experimenial) in collab- oration with the National Centre for the Arts
1-0 DE LA
2249 video Director: Annie O’Donaghue Producers: Jennifer Torrance,
Svend-Erik Eriksen
English original docuinentary produced by NFB (English Program/Documentary - West - Vancouver)
26:22 35 mm, video Director Philippe Baylaucq Produwr lolande Cadrin-Rossignol
French original artistic video produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Culture and Experimental) in collab- oration with the National Centre for the Arts
NIAN OVEHBOAR D 77:20 video Director: Murray Battle Producers: Julia Sereny (Sienna Films Inc 1,
Adam Symansky INFBI
English original documentary produced by Sienna Films Inc., with the partici- pation of Telefilm Canada, Ontario Film Development Corporation, NFB (English Program/Documentary - East - Montreal), The Cable Production Fund and Rogers Telefund, in associa- tion with TVOntario, Knowledge Network, CFCF and the Saskatchewan Communications Net w or k
MASC:AKAS/MASQUI_S/NIASI<S From the Droits au cnwr/Rights from the Heart collection 8:12 35 mm, video Director: Elisa Rivas Producers: Norma Martinez IICAIC),
Multilingual original animated short produced by El Instituto Cubano Del Arte E lndustria Cinematograficos (ICAIC) and NFB (French Program/ Animation). with the support of Canadian Herilage, UNICEF International, PREMIERE Medien GmbH & Co. KG., Télé-Québec and TFO - TVOntario
Thérèse Descary BI
NIEXI<:O VIVO O MUEI?TO 52:50 video Director: Mary Ellen Davis Producers: Nicole Lamothe, Paul Lapointe
Spanish original documentary pro- duced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Culture and Experimental)
NION C:OI:UR E s r -rÉMOiN... AUX PAYS DES FENIMES DES MONDES KI1 USU IMANS 80:57 35 mm, video Director: Louise Carré Producers: Albanie Morin and Marcel Simard
(Le\ F i l m Viragel, Louise Carré (La biaison des quaire), Nadia El Fani (L’yeux noirs rnovies), Nicole Lamothe and Yves Rivard INFR)
French original documentary produced by Les Films Virage and La Maison des quatre, in co-production with the NFB (French Program/Documentary - Work and the Workplace) and Z’yeux noirs movies, with the participation of SODEC, Gouvernement du Québec (Tax Credit Program), Ministry of Culture (Tunisie), Agence de coopération cul- turelle et technique (Tunisie), Centre de recherche. d’études, de documentation et d’information sur la femme (CREDIF - Tunis), Vues d’Afrique, Governement of Canada (Tax Credit Program), SRC, TV3 Quebec, Canada, ERTT (Etablisse- ment de radio télé tunisienne), 2M - Sorrrd (Maroc)
NOKWAY’S I-OlWTEN COD I=ISIi E KY 21:16 video Director: Nigel Markham Producers Mike Mahoney, Marilyn A. Belec
English original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/Documentary - East - Halifax)
CI’S I ENI 53:42 video Director: Gillian Darling Kovanic Producers: Gillian Darling Kovanic
r iamarin Producticinr Inc.1, George Johnson ( K F R )
English original documentary produced by Tamarin Productions Inc., in associa- tion with NFB (English Program/Docu- mentary - West - Vancouver), Vision TV, Knowledge Network, CFCF-12 Ti/, CHCH-1 1 TV, Saskatchewan Communi- cations Network. North-West Territo- ries Government (Department of Education, Culture and Employment), with the assistance of BC Film, The Cable Production Fund, Rogers Telefund and the North Shore Arts Commission
LA MINE D’ART - LES LEGENDES DE I-’ENCHAN’rEUI? - COHOEDEMAN collection
NAKCO 13 1-LI ES/ NARKOB LlJ IIS From the Droits au caw/Rights from the ! k a r t
From the La Mine d’art çerieç 5 0 2 0 video Director: Isabelle Turcotte Producer: Thérèse Descary
Compilation of animated shorts with French original shooting produced by NFB (French Program/Animation)
8:14 35 mm, video Dircctors: Bretislav Pojar, Ivan Vit Producers: Michal Podhradsky IAlF Studio),
Multilingual original animated short produced by AIF Studio, with the collaboration of Ceska televize, in co-production with the NFB (French Program/Animationl and with the sup- port of Leciva as . , Magistrat hlavniho mesta Prahy, Canadian Heritage, UNICEF International, PREMIERE Medien GmbH & Co. KG., Télé-Québec and ‘TFO - TVOntario
Thérèse Descary (NFBI
MASCARA s
OI~YSSÉIE SONORE 73:43 video Director: Louis Ricard Producers: Paul Lapointe, Joanne Carrière
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Culture and Experimental) in collabo- ration with the Société Radio-Canada
ON AVOIDING EXTINCTION From the 1996 NFB Animation Festival: Short >4nimated Canadian serieç 30:OO video Director: Donald McWilliams Producers: Marcy Page, David Verrall,
Compilation of animated shorts with English original shooting produced by NFB (English Program/Animation, Children, Interactive - East) in association with Bravo!
Barrie Angus McLean
/MASQUES/MASKS
ON BI~INC; HUNIAN From the 1996 NFB Animation Fwtival: Short Animatc,ci Canadian series 27:25 video Director: Donald McWilliams Producerç: Marcy Page, David Verrall,
Compilation of animated shorts with English original shooting produced by NFB (English Program/Animation. Children, interactive - East) in association with Bravo!
Barr ie Angus McLean
IViC:I<I NG Ii E N 4958 video Director: Wendy Rowland Producerç: Sally Bochner, Wendy Rowland,
Engliçh original documentary produced by NFB (Engliçh ProgramiDocumentary
~ East - Montreal)
Don Haig
LII I~ARLI~MENT A l ~ A l ? L l ~ 13343 video Director: Daniel Frenet te Producers: Pierre Lapointe, lsobel Marks
French original documentary produced by- NFB (English ProgradAnimation, Children, Interactive - East) in collabo- ration \)v i t h Citoyenne te et Immigration Canada/Secrétariat d'Etat and Canadian Heritage
1-1- PAYS I?&E 92:31 35 mm, video DireLtor Michel Moreau Producers lolande Cadrin-Rossignol,
Joanne Carr iè re
French original documentar) produced b y NFB (French ProgramiDocumentary - Culture and Experimental)
PENDANT CauE -roiuiBEN-r LES ARBRES troin the CSiV : cinq temps d'un rnouwmenf collection 51:24 cideo Direclor: Sylvain L'Espérance Producers: Marcel Simard and Luc Vanda1
l :.es Filin5 Viragcl, Nicole Lamothe i i i t ~ i
French original documentary produced by Les Filins Virage in co-production with NFB (French Program/Docu-men- tary - Work and the Workplace)
PI~RSPIIC>I'IVES IN SCII3KE - VOLIJIVIII II - AIR Froin the Pcnpectivei in Science ~ Volume I I scricç 50:18 video Director: Tim Latchem Producers: Tim Latchem, Julie Stanfel,
Floyd Elliott, lsobel Marks
English original documentary produced by NFB (E:nglish Program/Animation, Children, Interactive - East)
IXACIZ OF ï ï i E BOSS: UTSH 1 lVl ASS ITS 48:46 video Dircctor: John Walker Producers: John Walker ili-idd tiliii production^
Ltd. and .John Walher Producii!ins Lid.1, Mike Mahoney, Peter d 'Entremont and Marilyn Belec iNFB)
English original docuinentary pro- duced by Triad Film Productions Ltd. and John Walker Productions Ltd. in co-production with the NFB (English Program/Documentary - East ~
Halifax), in association with CBC, with the participation of the Nova Scotia Filin Development Corporation
PLlJ NI l31J NI CON 1J N DI? 1J NI 1126 35 mm, video Director: Michael Fukushima Producers: David Verrall,
English original animated short pro- duced by NFB (English Program/ Animation, Children, Interactive ~
East) in association with Health Canada, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and Hurnan Resources Development Canada
Barr ie Angus McLean
'I'IiIE IWWDER ROOIUl
4 9 3 5 16 mm, video Dircctoi-. Ann Kennard Produwrs: Michael Allder, Dennis Murphy
E ng I i s h or i g i n ai d oc u i n e n t ary pro du ced by NFB (English PrograrrdDocuinentary - Ontario)
Gerry Flahive, Louise Lore
:KING HEA'ï
IWWIER 76:31 video Director: Magnus Isacsson Produccrs: Glen Salzman and
Katherine Buck i(.ineflir Produciion',), Mark Zannis and Don Haig INFB)
English original documentary produced b y Cineflix Productions, with the partic- ipation of Telefilm Canada and The O n t ari o Fi I m Develo p m en t Corporation , in association with the NFB (English Program/Documentary - East - Montreal), Roger's Telefund, TVOntario, Vision TV, Access Network, CFCF-TV, The Knowledge Network, Saskatchewan Cornmunications Network (SCN) and Television Northern Canada
-riiE PRINCE AND I Internet interactive production
Director: André Lauzon Producers: Pierre Lapointe, lsobel Marks
English original interactive production produced for Internet by NFB (English Program/Animation, Children, Interactive - East)
72:OO 16 mm, video Director Peter Lynch Producer5 Emmet Sheil, Michael Allder,
English original documentary produce by NFB (English Program/Documentar - Ontario)
Gerrq Flahive, Louise Lore
d 'Y
Ca 1J 1 I~T//cO 1J RTE 1 ' 0 1 NTIE
6:37 35 mm, video Direc tor Gayle Thomas Producers: Marcy Page,
Multilingual original animated short produced by NFB (English Program/ Animation, Children, Interactive -
Barrie Angus McLean
East)
I?ÉI-I~RENDIJNI - PRISE DEUX/ TAKE 2
76:35 video Director-coordinator: Stéphane Drolet Producers: Jacques Vallée, Adam Symansky
French original documentary produced RAPII: A CRIME OF WAR by NFB (French Program/Documentary
- Montreal and English Program/ 59:05 video Director Shellq Saywell Documentary - East - Montreal) Producers Silva Basmajian, Cerry Flahive,
R131=ERENDlJNI - ‘IAI<F, ‘,/PRISE I3EUX 76:35 video Director-coordinator: Stéphane Drolet Producers: Adam Symansky, Jacques Vallée
English original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/Documentary - East - Montreal and French Program/Documentary - Montreal)
SEVEM CROWS A SECRET 28:32 35 mm, video Director: John Forrest Producers. George Johnson, Barbara Janes,
English original animated short pro- duced by NFB (English Program/Ani- mation, Children, Interactive - West)
Don Haig
ROAD TO SADDLE RIVER 109:38 video Director: Francis Damberger Producers: Francis Damberger
iD;irnberqer Filrri and Calile Companyl, Arvi Liimatainen (Saddle R n e r Filnis Ltd 1, Dale Phillips and Graydon McCrea INFBI
English original documentary pro- duced by Damberger Film and Cattle Company and Saddle River Films Ltd., in co-production with NFB (English ProgramiDocumentary - West ~
Edmonton), with the participation of Telefilm Canada and Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation, in association with Kicking Horçe Productions Ltd.
2128 35 mm, video Director: John F. Weldon Producers: David Verrall,
Barrie Angus McLean
English original animated short pro- duced by NFB (English Program/Ani- mation, Children, Interactive - East)
9:26 35 mm, video Director: Les Drew Producers: David Verrall,
l3arrie Angus McLean
English original animated short pro- duced by NFB (English Program/Ani- mation, Children, Interactive - East)
SONlI3OME TO ‘TALK TO - PEER
26:56 video Director: Annie Ilkow Producers: Judith Merritt, Wolf Koenig,
English original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/Documentary - East - Montreal)
Don Haig
1-13 SORT 131: I..’ANI~RIQlJli 90:02 35 mm, video Director Jacques Godbout Producer Eric Michel
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Societi, and Science)
SI LE TRAVAIL RII’ÉTAIT COMTÉ ... AUTRENIIINT! From the C 5h cinq tenip5 d’un niotii ement 5eries 5 1 2 2 video Director Marcel Simard Producers Marcel Simard and
Claude Cartier il es Filni5 L’irdqel, Nicole Lamothe I N ~ B I
French original documentary produced by Les Films Virage in co-production nith VFB (French Program/Documen- tary - Work and the Workplace), with the financial participation of Téle- Québec, Gouvernement du Québec (Tay Credit Program), Telefilm Canada, SODEC, Cable Production Fund, Government of Canada (Tax Credit Program) and Université du Ouébrc a Montréal
SEVEN CROWS A SECHET
THE SPEI-L OF THE YUKON 43:lO video Director Rita Roy Producers Rita Roy, Sam Grana, Don Haig
English original documentary produced by NFB (English ProgramiDocumentary - East - Montreal)
THE STEKlLlZATlON OF LEILANI NlUlR
46:56 video Director Glynis Whiting Producers Jerry D. Krepakevich,
English original documentary produced by NFB (English ProgramiDocumentary - West - Edmonton)
Graydon McCrea
TlME ON EARTH 5050 video Directors: David Mortin, Patricia Fogliato Producers: David Mortin and
Patricia Fogliato (Eiiigniaticc Films Inc.), Jerry McIntosh (CBC Ncwworldl, Michael Allder, Cerry Flahive and Louise Lore I N F B )
English original documentary produced by Enigmatico Films Inc. in co-produc- tion with NFB (English Program/Docu- mentary - Ontario), in association with CBC Newsworld and with the financial participation of Rogers Documentary Fund and The Cable Production Fund
-ro LJ'I'A-1'1s 48:25 video Director Catherine Fol Prodiicer Eric Michel
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Society and Science)
TU AS CRIE LET NIE C à 0 96.30 35 mm, video Director Anne Claire Poirier Prodtiw-5 Paul Lapointe, Joanne Carrière
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/DoLumentary - Culture and Experimental)
UN TOUR DE VILLE 13:56 video Direcror: Tina Viljoen Producers: Pierre Lapointe, lsobel Marks
French original documentary produced by NFB (English Program/Animation, Children, Interactive - East) with the financial support of Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada and Secrétariat d'État (Canadian Heritage) and with the collaboration of the Groupe de recherche didactique La Nation
THE UN-CANADIANS 72:OO video Director: Len Scher Producers: Joanne Muroff Smale
Uoanne Srnale Communications Ltd.1, Michael Allder, Dennis Murphy, Gerry Flahive and Louise Lore i h F B i
English original documentary produced by Joanne Smale Communications Ltd. in co-production with NFB (English Progi-am/Documentary - Ontario), in association with Citytv and with the assistance of The Cable Production Fund and Rogers Telefund
UNIEH WRAPS 5555 video Director: Teresa Maclnnes Producers: Teresa Maclnneç and
Penny Wheelwright IStarry N i g h t Productionsi, Jennifer Torrance INFB)
English original documentary produced by Starry Night Productions, with the participation of Telefilm Canada, in association with NFB (English Program/ Documentary - West - VancouverJ, British Columbia Film, TVOntario, Knowledge Network, Great North Releasing Inc., Life Network, VanCity Savings Credit Union and Saskatchewan Communications Network
lJNE HISTOIRE UE CONSTITUTION 2223 video Director Tina Viljoen Producers Pierre Lapointe, Içobel Marks
French original documentary produced by NFB (English ProgramiAnimation, Children, Interactive - East) with the financial support of Citoyennete et Immigration and Secrétariat d'Etat (Canadian Heritage), with the colla- boration of the Groupe de recherche didactique La Nation
1- US I N E 53:45 vide0 Directors: Michel Murray, Richard D. Lavoie Producers: lolande Cadrin-Rossignol,
Nicole Lamothe
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Culture and Esperimental)
VILLAGE NIOSAIQUE 50:25 bide0 Director: Lucie Lachapelle Producers Joanne Carrière, Josée Beaudet
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Society and Science)
VO<:RïI O N M ÉN AG i:H E 51:36 35 mm, video Director Renée Blanchar Producer Pierre Bernier
French original documentai-) produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Acadia) with the financial collabora- tion of the Société Radio-Canada - Moncton
WANTIID: DOC‘rOR ON I-IORSE- BACK 48:13 video Director: Claire Helman Producerç: Sally Bochner, Claire Helman,
Don Haig
E ng 1 i s h or i g i n a I d oc u nient ar y prod u ced by NFB (English ProgramlDocumentary - East - Montreal) in association with Vision TV
WAHHIOH SONGS: KING GlfSAR 57:40 video Director: Renée Blanchar Producerç: Lesley Ann Patten,
Michael Betcherman and Tom Perlmutter (Great Easlern Cine Productions I.td.l, Cécile Chevrier ILeç Productions du Phare-Est inc.), Marilyn Belec ( N F B )
English original documentary produced by Great Eastern Cine Productions Ltd., in association with Les Productions du Phare-Est inc., in co-production with the NFB (English Program/Documen- tary - East - Halifax), with the partici- pation of Telefilm Canada, in associa- tion with Bravo!, The Nova Scotia Film Development Corporation, Film New Brunswick, Vision TV. CFCF-12 Montreal and cvith the financial support of the Cable Production Fund and Rogers Telefund
ZANDILE. IN THE 1
WHAT’S YOlJR I~I,EASlJRI-I. From the 1996 N F B Animation Festival: Short Animatcd Canadinn series 28:lO video Director: Donald McWilliams Producers: Marcy Page, David Verrall,
Barrie Angus McLean
Compilation of animated shorts with English original shooting produced by NFB (English ProgramiAnimation, Children, Interactive - East) in association with Bravo!
11:07 35 mm, video Director George Geertsen Producer Barrie Angus McLean
English original animated short pro- duced by NFB (English ProgramIAni mation, Children, Interactive - East) with the support of The National Literacy Secretariat of Canada
ZANDILE, DANS LA LUMIÈRE 1) Ii L’lJ B 1J N’TU From The Greatcr Halt‘ of the LVorld collection 88:36 video Director: Michel Régnier Producer: Jacques Vallée
English original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Montreal)
ZANDII,E, IN THE 1-IGHT OF IJBlJNTU From the La Plus Grande itfoitit du mondc collection 8836 video Director: Michel Régnier Producer: Jacques Vallée
French original documentary produced by NFB (French Program/Documentary - Montreal)
100 DESSINS DESSOUS 57:22 video Director of the original production and the version: Robert Awad Producer of the original production and the version: Jacques Vallée
TV version of compilation with French original shooting 100 Dessins Dcssous, produced by NFB with the collabora- tion of Société Radio-Canada
CE SERA PAS 'rOUJOlJRS FACI LE 26:21 video Director of the original production and the vcrsion: Jean-Thomas Bedard Producer of the original production and the version: Colette Blanchard
Abridged version of French original documentary La Travers& d e la nuit, produced by NFB
CHILDREN OF ~JI~RlJSRI-EM - GIiSHO 24:43 16 mm, video Director of the original production and the version: Beverly Shaffer Producers of the original production and the version: Beverly Shaffer.
Hebrew version of English original documentary Chiidren of Jerusalem - Gesho, produced by NFB
Don Haig
DASI-IAN - 1JNE IiISTOIRE D'li 1J MOU H 50:OO video Director o f the original production and the bcrsioii. Guy Nantel Producers 0 1 the original production and the \ e r w n
French \ ersion of English original doc- umentarg Da5han - .4mbassador to China's Funny Bone, produced bg' NFB in association with Bravo1
Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol, Joanne Carrière
LES ENFANTS IYABORD! 57.50 \. ideo Dircctor of the oriqiiial production
BASEBALL GIRLS dnd the \ersion Jacques Vallee Producers ot the original production and the iersion Jacques Vallee,
BASE BALI- G I H LS 48 02 16 mm, video CES I'EIMIUIES QlJl TlJl~NT Director of the oriqinal production 47338 video and the \ersion Lois Siegel Director of the original production Abridged \ersion of the compilation Producer of the oriqinal production 14 ith French original shooting Les
Enfants d'abord' produced bh NFB LI ith and the bersion Silva BasmaJian
Abridged version of English original the collaboration of Reader's Digest, Societe Radio-Canada and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
documentar) Basebal2 Girls, produced bv NFB
Adam Symansky
and the version Barbara Doran ProdtJcei 5 of the original production
Barbara Doran iM»raq Produciion\), Annette Clarke dnd Siane lohansîon i N k K I
TH E BI 0130 NI 1, AIIVE NTlJ R E 52:02 video Director of the original production: Bernard Gosselin Produccr of the original production: Paul Lapointe Director of the version:
Producer o f the version: Camille Laperrière
Jacques Vallée
English version of French original documentary L'Archc d e verrc, produced by NFB
__. Prnducer of the version
Barbara Doran i Mordq Produitions1
French version of English original doc- umentary When Women Kill, produced by ILlorag Productions Inc. in co-pro- duction mith YFB, with the financial participation of the Development Funding frorn the Women's Program - Secretary of State and the Société génkrale des industries culturelles - Quebec (SOCIC) in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Newsworld
CES FEMMES QUI TUENT
53:37 video Director of the original production:
Ginette Pellerin Producer of the original production:
P ie r re Bernier Director of' the version:
Camille Laperr ière Producer of the version:
Jacques Vallée
English version of French original documentary Evangéiine en quête, produced by NFB
FRENCH NIAN, NATIVE SON 26:45 video Director of the original production and Lhe version: Monika Ille Producer of the original production and the version: Colette Blanchard
English version of French original documentary Le Français aux cheveux rouges, produced by NFB
1 CEWAR R I O I~ 52:31 video Director of the original production:
P ie r re Perraul t Producer of the origi?al production:
Eric Michel Director of the version.
Camille Laperr ière Producer of the version:
Jacques Vallée
English version of French original documentary Cornouailles, produced by NFB
JE NI'APPEI-LE KAIi ENTI IOSTA 29:51 video Director of the original production and the version: Alanis Obomsawin Producers of the original production and the version: Alanis Obomsawin,
French version of English original documentary My Name is Kahentiiosta, produced by NFB
Don Haig
THE LAST 01- THE FRANCO- ONTARIAN 57:57 video Directors of the original production and the version: Jean-Marc Larivière,
Marie Cadieux Producers of the original production and the version: Michel Cloutier and
Cather ine Mensour (Vunacorn inc 1, Doris Girard INFBi
Engliçh version of French original documentary Le Dernier des Franco- Ontariens, produced by Nunacom inc. in association with the NFB, with the financial participation of Telefilm Canada and the Société de développe- ment de l'industrie cinématoqraghiaue ont tioi Do
10:35 35 mm, video Director of the original production:
Robert Doucet Producers of the original production:
Bill Pettigrew, Marcy Page, Barr ie Angus McLean
Normand Roger
Marcy Page
Director of the version:
Producer of the \)ersion:
French version of English original animated short The Legend of the Flying Canoe, produced by NFB
NIEXICO DEAD OR ALIVE 52:50 video Director of the original production and the ~ e r s i o n : Producers of the original production and the version Nicole Lamothe,
English version of Spanish original documentary Mexico Vivo O Muerti produced by NFB
Mary Ellen Davis
Paul Lapointe
1-II MEXIQlJIi IVIORr OlJ VIF 52:50 video Director o f the original production and t h e version: Producers o f the original production and the version: Nicole Lamothe,
French version of Spanish original documentary Mexico Vivo O Mcrerto, produced by NFB
Mary Ellen Davis
Paul Lapointe
ON S'EN 0C:ClJPE 25:34 video Director 0 1 the original production:
Claudette Jaiko Producer of the original production:
Chantal Bowen Director of the \ersion:
Camille Laperrière Produccr o f the version:
Jacques Vallée
French version o f English original doc- umentary Takiny Charge. produced by NFB (Federal Women's Film Program) with the participation of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Status of Women Canada, Huinan Resources Development Canada, Justice Canada, Health Canada and Canadian Heritage
LA PLANTE IilJMAINE 78:09 35 mm, video Director of the original production and the version: Pierre Hébert Producers o f the original production and the version: Yves Leduc,
Freddy Denaës
English version of French original animated long feature filin Lü Plante humaine, produced by NFB and Arcadia Films
LE VOL DES DINOSAURES
1'13 O J ECl' Cà 13 1 Z Z 1-Y 52:03 video Director of the original prod and the version: Peter L! Producers of the original production and the version: Emmet Sheil,
Michael Allder
Abridged version of English original 4825 video documentary PPject GrizziY. Produced Director of the original production by NFB and the version: Catherine Fol
Produccr of the original production and the version: Éric Michel
SACREE 'rELi
-ro iJ-rA-ris
SACREE -rÉi-E 21:39 video Director of the original production:
Annie O'Donoghue Producers of the original production:
J o h n Harrison, George Johnson
Camille Laperrière
Jacques Vallée
Dire( to r o f the version.
Producer of the version.
French version of Englisli original drarna Live TV, produced by NFB in association with Family Violence Pre\,en t ion Division, Heal t h Canada, and with the assistance of Department of Canadian Heritage
1-E SORT DII 1-'AIVIÉRIQUIE 81:28 video Direc tor of the original production and the version: Jacques Godbout ProdJcer of the origi;ial production and the \ ~ r s i o i i : Eric Michel
Abridged version of French original dociimentary Lc Sort dc l'Amérique, procluced by NFB
English version of French original doc- umentary Toutatis, produced by NFB
1-1- VOL DES IiINOSAlJRES 5 : 5 8 35 mm, video üirector of the original production:
Producers of the original production: Munro Ferguson
David Verrall, Isobel Marks
Camille Laperrière
Jacques Vallée
üireclor of the Lersion:
Producer of the \ersion:
French version of Englislî original anima t e d s h o r t ff O w Din os;i tirs L ea 1-12 ed To Flj', produced by 'IFB
WAITING 32:53 video Director o f the original production and the version Marie-Claude Harvey Producer ot' the original production aiid the version: lolande Cadrin-Rossignol
English version of French original doc- umentary Attendre, produced by NFB
PRODUCTION
Original Productions Original films in English Original films in French Original films - multilingual Original videos in English Original videos in French Original videos - multilingual Multimedia productions in English Multimedia productions in French
NFR Productions 15 8 5
26 15 1 1 O
Co-productions 1 2 3
15 8 O 1 O
Total 16 10 8
41 23 1 2 O
Versions and Adaptations
Multimedia productions - multilingual O 1 1 Total 71 31 102
NFB Productions Co-productlons Total English versions of French original productions 7 French versions of English original productions 7 Multilingual versions of original productions 1 Abridged versions of English original productions 2 Abridged versions of French original productions 4 Total 21
Filins froin the iiidepeiiclent sector which receivecl assistance from the NFB
Filmmaker Assistance Program (FAP - English Program) Aide au cinéma indépendant (Canada) (ACIC - French Program) Total
9
8
1
2
4 24
185
77 262
SUMIUARY OF ACTIWTiES
CANADIAN DIS'TRIBIJTION
Television
Theatrical Bookings
Non-theatrical
English telecasts French telecasts Total
NFB Cinemas Repertory and Commercial Cinemas IMAXO Cinemas Total
NFB rentals Loans - Partners Total
Product Sales Videocassettes - NFB Videocassettes - distributors 16 n-im prini Multimedia Total
Reveiiues
1996'1 997
3 454 513
3 967
6 43 7
5 448
17 669 216 931 234 600
79 911 21 447
43 835
102 236
Royalties Te I ev i si o n $542 980 Theatrical and non-theatrical
distribution 172 767 Sales of prints and videocassettes 1 702 984 Rentals 49 361
Sub-total
Sales of stock shots
Total
$ 2 468 092
277 140
$ 2 745 232
'1 995-1996
4 743 339
5 082
141 86 5
232
61 498 130 862 192 360
76 129 10 301
12 267
86 709
$678 221
275 939 1 882 584
161 105
$ 2 997 849
206 267
$ 3 204 116
Filin Festivals
Contracts Negotiatecl
Heveiiues by Market
Revenues by Territoi'y
1996-'1997
Canadian festival participation 40 Films screened at Canadian festivals 226 Canadian awards 43 International festival participation 239 Films screened at international festivals 712 international awards 61
Telev i s i on Theatrical Non-theatrical Home vidso Al1 markets
Te I ev i s i o n Theatrical Non-theai ricai
Total
United States Europe, Middle East and Engiish-speaking Africa Europe and French-speaking Africa AsdPacific Latin AmericaiCarribean Other Total
156 19 62 44
1
$ 1 4 7 3 016 506 704
1 006 851
$ 2 986 571
$ 1 311 429
393 615 537 462 361 981 74 281
307 803 $ 2 986 571
1995-1 996
44 178 20
215 742 60
111 14 66 40
2
S 1 322 072 698 732
1 268 886
$ 3 289 690
$ 1 416 540
315 230 743 820 471 369
99 587 243 144
$ 3 289 690
TECHNICAL SERVICES
La boratory Inspection of the collection
Location Equipment Rentals invoiced:
Hours invoiced
Camera equipment Sound equipment Electrical equipment Total rentals (in dollars)
Off-Lin@ Editing
Related services
Wee ks invoiced: Non linear picture editing Traditional picture editing Non-linear sound editing Traditional sound editing Total weeks
Sound transfers (in feetl
Hours invoiced: Sound transferç Synchrushes Film and video projection Total hours
Sound Post-production Mixing and recording (in hours)
Image Post-production Visual Effects
Image Post-production Video
1996-'199, '1 993-1 996
2 204 nla
813 838 nla 243 788 nla 299 475 nla
1 357 101
555 236 143 92
1 O26
nla nla nla nla
258 173 322 331
2 223 4 677 2 195 nla 1223 2 042 5 641 6 719
4 616 7 204
Visual effects and titles (in dollars) 689 120 Digital imaging infrastructure (in dollars) 675 775 Animation camera (in hours) 1794
Hours invoiced. Videocassette duplication On-line video services Video-to-film transfers Telecine transfers Total hours
Videocassettes invoiced
3 401 983
2 004 1428 7 816
3 855
nla nla
2 118
7 080 949 377
2 009 10 415
610
In 1996-97, Technical Services had to adjust to an unprecedented reduction in their resources A number of activities were abolished, and the NFB nocv obtains these services from the pri- vate sector.
The Laboratory (including Negative Cutting) was closed docvn in July 1996. Only certain tran- sitiond activities and inspection of the collection were retained in-house. We had to lay off Our location staff, including electricians, sound recordists and carpenters, and turned over man- agement of the Shooting Stage to a third party. We also closed Graphic Services and Printing. In Video Services, we stopped producing masters on the Rank, keeping only those activities relaled to transferring the collection and exploiting stock shots. The Engineering Section was dismantled. Editing and synch rushes, which used to be the responsibility of the Programs, were incorporated into Technical Services.
While restructuring Our activities, we also continued the technological shift already under way, especially in Visual Effectç, where the traditional optical processes were replaced with digital technologies. During this year of rationalization, we established a new system for calculating rates based on al1 direct and indirect costs associated with each activity. This considerably modified o ~ i r rates, which used to be based solelÿ on direct costs.
ANATOMY OF DESIRE D.: Jean-François Monette,
Peter Tyler Boullata P. : Jean-François Monette, Kenneth Hirsch,
David Wilson Co-produced with Bare Bone Films
Second Place Psychiatric and Mental Health Category American Journal of Nursing Media Festival Washington, USA June 25 to 27, 2996
First Place Sexuality and Sex Role Development Category Media Awards Competition National Council on Family Relations East Lancing, USA November 9 to 23, 2996
Honourable Mention 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 2996
AHKELOPE D.: Roslyn Schwartz P. : Marcy Page
Gold Apple Award National Educational Media Network Competition Oakland, USA May 18, 1996
Special Prize International TV - Film Festival Minsk, Belarus Republic hfqy 20 to 25, 1996
ATTENDRE D.: Marie-Claude Harvey P. : lolande Cadrin-Rossignol
Regard canadien su r l’Afrique Award Verne\ Journées du cinéma africain et créole - Vues d’Afrique Montreal, Canada April25 to May 5, 1996
RABY BUSINESS D.: Judy Jackson P. : Sylvie Van Brabant, Barrie Howells Co-produced with Les Productions du Rapide-Blanc inc.
Gold Apple Award National Educational Media Network Competition Oakland, lJSA May 18, 1996
Third Place Certificate for Creative Excellence, Social Issues Category international Film and Video Festival Elmhurst, USA June 4 and 5, 2996
Gold CINDY Award International CINDY Competition Spring Valley, USA March 12 to 25, 2997
Honourable Mention 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 1996
BOR’S BIRTHDAY D.: Alison Snowden, David Fine P. : David Verrall Produced by Snowden Fine Animation for Channel Four Television (England) in association with the NFB
First Prize Animation Short Film Category South Beach Film Festival North Miami, USA April 28 to 25, 2996
Diploma of Honour International Short Film Festival Sukagawa, Japan May 12 and 12, 1996
Director’s Citation Award 15th Black Maria Film & Video Festival Jersey City, USA January 24 to mid-May 1996
Jury Award Gravity Free Film Festival Jamestown, USA June 2996
CHILDREN OF JERUSALEM - GESHO
BAROQUE’N ROLL D.: Beverly Shaffer Rights frorn the Heart ~ Part iI collection P. : Don Haig, Beverly Shaffer D.: Pierre M. Trudeau P. : Thérèse Descary
Best Animation Short Film Mention DEN1 International Film Festival Montevideo, Uruguay July 8 to 29, 1996
BASEBALL GIRLS D.: Lois Siegel P. : Silva Basmajian
Diploma from Palermo City For the novelty of the point of view through which the history of the female role in American baseball has been reconstructed 18th International Sport Film Festival Palermo, Italy November 12 to 25, 1996
Honourable Mention 44th Columbus international Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 2996
CHILDREN OF JERUSALEM - IBRAHIM D.: Beverly Shaffer P. : Don Haig, Beverly Shaffer
Bronze Plaque Award 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 1996
CHILDREN OF JERUSALEM - YEHUDA D.: Beverly Shaffer P. : Don Haig, Beverly Shaffer
Honourable Mention 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 2996
DI~ADI... imwsi-rs D.: Jay Falconer P. : Julie Stanfel
Silver Apple Award National Educational Media Network Competition Oakland, USA May 18, 1996
D'NNER FOR TWO/ IIINEI? INTIME D.: Janet Perlman P. : Barrie Angus McLean
First Prize (Grand Prix des Amériques) Best Short Film Section 20th World Film Festival Montreal, Canada August 22 to September 2, 1996
UNICEF Prize - Best Short Film 20th Children's Film Festival Berlin, Germany Fcbruary 13 to 24, 7997
DROITS AlJ CCElJR/l?IGIi'ïS I-RONI THE HEART (collection - Part il) D : Pierre M. Trudeau, Francine Desbiens,
Bretislav Pojar, Zabelle Côte, Daniel Schorr, Claude Cloutier, Jacques Drouin, Michèle Cournoyer
P. . Thérèse Descary
UNICEF Award International Film Festival Montevideo, Uruguay J U l J ' 8 to 19, 1996
-niE END 01- -rwi WORI-D IN FOlJR SEASONS/LA FIN 1211 MONDE EN QUA'ïRE SAISONS D Paul Driessen P Marcy Page
Animation Prize With a cash prize of PTE 300.000$
Distribution Prize Best film in cornpetition International Short Film Festival Vila do Conde, Portugal
Prix de la Critique internationale International Short Film Festival Craco\,ie, Poland iVay 31 to Juiie 4, 7996
July 2 to 7, 1996
Best Production Category B (between 10 and 30 minutes) Special Award (Normand Roger) Music and Sound Ottawa '96 International Animation Festival Ottawa, Canada October 2 to 6, 1996
Second Place Award Aniinated works longer than 3 minutes and shorter than 15 minutes 5th Los Angeles Animation Competition World Animation Celebration Agoura Hills, USA March 24 to 30, 7997
1: ÉPO I'liE D tierménégilde Chiasson P Pierre Bernier
TV5 Award - Best Documentary l l e Festival international du film francophone Namur, Belgium Seprember 27 to October 5, 1996
ÉWANGÉLINE EN QlJÊ-iE D.: Ginette Pellerin P. : Pierre Bernier
Special Jury Mention l l e Festival international du film fran co p hon e Namur, Belgium Seplember 27 to October 5, 1996
I~X-I~NI~ANT/IiX-C~HILD Righrs fi-orn the Hcatt - Part !/ collection D: Jacques Drouin P. : Thérèse Descary
Special Prize For its artistic treatinent of a very serious hunian subject and message Hiroshima '96 - 6th International Animation Film Festival Hiroshima, Japan
UNICEF Award 5th Los Angeles Animation Competitioii World Animation Celebration Agoura Hills, USA March 24 to 30, 1997
A U g L l S t 22 to 26, 1996
THE 1-IRST ENIPI~ROR OF CHINA D.: Tony Ianzelo, Liu Hao Xue P. : Barrie Howells, Pan Han Ci Co-produced with China Xi'an Film Studio in association with the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Honourable Mention 14th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 1996
Silver Apple Award National Educational Media Network Competition Oakland, USA May 18, 1996
IWLK AlTl- I~OlJND NIE D.: Alex Busby P. : Alex Busby, Mike Mahoney Co-produced with Wisdom Teeth Productions
Silver Apple Award National Educational Media Network Competition Oakland, USA M a y 78, 7906
CHRIS Statuette Award 44ih Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 2 t 7996
Silver Award Documentary Category 30th Annual New York Exposition of Short Film and Video New York, USA Novembcr 27 to 23, 1996
FOR<; O'ITE N WAR l? 1 O I?S D.: Loretta Todd P. : Carol Geddes, Michael Doxtater,
Jerry Krepakevich
Best Biography History Category Hot Docs! The Canadian lndependent Film & Video Caucus Toronto, Canada March 78 to 23, 1997
Best Short Docurnentary Program Ainerican lndian Film Festival San Francisco, USA November 7 to 9, 1996
AWARDS
GCICID ‘THINGS TOO D.: Liz Scullq P. : George Johnson, Leonard Terhoch
Silver Award Social and Economic Issues Category Houston International Film Festival - Worldfest Houston, USA ,4pril 12 to 22, 2996
IiANDS OF HISTOHY D.: Loretta Todd P. : Margaret Pettigrew
Special Jury Award 32nd Short Film & Video Festival / Golden Sheaf Yorkton, Canada M a y 30 to /une 2, 1996
CHRlS Statuette Award 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 1996’
Gemini Award (Joseph Viszmeg) Beçt Direction in a Documentary Category Gemini Awards 1997
I-E .JARDIN CIUBLIÉ - IA VIE ET 1~’CElJVRIi II’ALICE C;lJY-BI,AC:HIi D.: Marquise Lepage P. : Eric Michel
Bronze Apple Award National Educational Media Net\%, or k Co m pet i t io n Oakland, USA May 28, 1996
Gemeaux Awards Best Documentary Category 10e édition Prix Gémeaux Montréal, Canada September 29, 1996
Toronto, Canada February 28 to March 2, 1997
Gold Apple Award National Educational Media Network Cornpetition Oakland, USA May 18, 2996
HOW DINOSAURS LEARNED
D Munro Ferguson P Isobel Marks, David Verrall
Honourable Mention 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 2996
-ro FI-Y
II- CINI-Y 1 WERE AN INDIAN D.: John Paskievich P. : Ches Yetman, Joe MacDonald,
John Paskievich Co-produced with Zemma Pictures
Planete-Cable Award With a cash prize of 10,000 FF 16e Bilan du Film Ethnographique Musée de l’Homme Paris, France March 17 to 21, 1997
IN MY OWN TlNlE - DIARY OF A CANCER I’ATIEMT D Joseph Viszmeg P Jerry Krepakevich, Graydon McCrea,
Joseph Viszmeg
Gold Award Biographical and Autobiographical Film Productions Category Houston International Film Festival - Worldfest Houston, USA Aprii 12 to 21, 1996
1 NTERNKl’lONAI- TRADIE Economiu ~ Program 7 çerieç D.: André Lauzon, Daniel Frenette P. : Pierre Lapointe, Bruno Mastroianni Co-produced with Kativik School Board
Bronze Apple Award National Educational Media N etwo rk Co m pet i t ion Oakland, lJSA May 18, 2096‘
J’AI IV1 E, J’AI M E l’AS D.: Sylvie Groulx P. : Monique Létourneau
Prix Luce Guilbeault (Lucie Laurier) Best Young Actor or Actress Category With a cash prize of $2,000 Prix SARDEC (Sylvie Groulx and Jacques Marcotte) Best Script for a feature film or a ttlefilm With a cash prize of$5,000 Quinzièmes Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois Montreal, Canada February 27 to March 8, 1997
JACQUES GIRAI-DIiAlJ Albert-Tessier Award (cinema) The prize is accompanied by a silver medal, a certificate and a cash prize of $30,000 Les Prix du Québec 1996 Québec, Canada December 7, 1996
LE JOLJElJR DE CORN THE CXIRA I’LAYIiR Rights from the H e a r f ~ Part H I collection D.: Cilia Sawadogo P. : Gaston Kaboré, Françoise Wera,
Co-produced with Cinécom Productions in association with Opracom
Special Award Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision (FESPACO) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso February 22 to March 1, 1997
Thérèse Descary
1-A SA1,I-A D.: Richard Condie P. . Ches Yetman
NFB Award Best Animation Category International Film Festival Vancouver, Canada October 4 to 20, 2996
mii I-EGEND <II- THE FLYINC; CANOE D.: Robert Doucet P. : Marcy Page, Bill Pettigrew
Viacom Canada Prize Best Canadian Production Category Ottawa ‘96 International Animation Festival Ottawa, Canada October 2 to 6, 1996
LlVE TV D.: Annie O’Donoghue P. : JoAnn Harrison, George Johnson
Gold CINDY Award International CINDY Competition Spring Valley, USA March 12 to 13, 1997
Honourable Mention 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA Octobcr 22 to 24, 1996
LODELA D.: Philippe Baylaucq P. : Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol
Award of Excellence Best Film or Video under 60 minutes Category (tied with Thirty Five Aside by Damien O’Donnell - Ireland) With a cash prize of $500 Atlantic Film Festival Halifax, Canada September 20 to 28, 1996
-riiE ms’r GAHDEN: - r w I-IFE AND CINEMA, OF ALICE CàlJY-BI,AC:IiE (Le Jardin oublie - La Vie et l’Oeuvre d'Alite Guy-Blaché) D.: Marquise Lepage P. : Eric Michel
Honourable mention 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 1996
MI’KMAQ FANIII-Y D Catherine Anne Martin P Sheilagh Mackenzie
Silver Apple Award National Educational Media Netlvork Competition Oakland, USA May 18, 1996
IV1 IS Cli A D.: David Vaisbord P. : Jennifer Torrance
Special Jury Citation, John Spotton Award Best Canadian Short Film Category Toronto International Film Festival Toronto, Canada
Award of Excellence AMïEC Media Festival Vancouver, Canada June 14, 1996
September 5 to 14, 1996
Best Choregraphy for Camera Award Moving Pictureç Toronto, Canada October 17 and 18, 1996
Telefilm Canada Award With a cash prize of $15,000 (tied with Two Impossible Films directed by Mark Lewis - Canada) Festival international du film sur l’art Montreal, Canada March 11 to 16, 1997
Best Short Documentary Hot Docs! The Canadian Independent Film & Video Caucus Toronto, Canada March 18 to 23, 1997
Award for Best Picture (Jean-Pierre Lachapellel MEDIAWAVE - International Festival of Visual Arts Gyor, Hungary March 18 to 23. 1997
NI0 1JS EO 1-OGY D.: Bretislav Pojar P. : Bill Pettigrew
Bronze Plaque Award 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 23, 2996
Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Film Western Psychological Association Film Festival San Jose, USA Apnl 11 to 14, 1996
w s r E i w OF - r w MAYA D.: Barrie Howells, Robert0 Rochin P. : Barrie Howells Co-produced with the Mexican Institute of Cinema and the Canadian Museum of Civilization
Bronze Plaque Award 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 1996
NATIONAL FILNI BOARD OF CANADA/ OFIWI, NATIONAL IIU FILM DlJ CANADA Boomerang Award Corporate Website Category Editions Info Presse Montreal, Canada November 28, 1996
THE I’ASSERRY D.: Don McWilliams P. : Susan Huycke, Barrie Angus McLean
Best Cultural Documentary Hot Docç! The Canadian Independent Film & Video Caucus Toronto, Canada March 18 to 23, 1997
PLACE 01- THE BOSS: lJTSH 1 Nl ASSITS D.: John Walker P.. Mike Mahoney, John Walker,
Co-produced with John Walker Productions and Triad Films
Golden Sheaf Award - Best Documentary over 30 minutes Golden Sheaf Award - Best Original Music Golden Sheaf Award - Best of the Festival 32nd Short Film and Video Festival Yorkton, Canada May 30 to June 2, 1996
Rex Tasker Award - Best Atlantic Documentary With a cash prize of $1,500 Atlantic Film Festival Halifax, Canada Septcmber 20 to 28, 1996
Donald Brittain Award - Best Documentary 1997 Gemini Awards Toronto, Canada February 28 to March 2, 1997
Peter d'Entremont
IA PLAN-rE I i u w w E D.: Pierre Hébert P. : Yves Leduc, Freddy Denaës Co-produced with Arcadia Films (France)
AQCC-SODEC Award For best feature film With a cash prize of $5,000 Quinzièmes Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois Montreal, Canada February 27 to March 8, 1997
THE I~RESSUHE ZONE Beauty Begins Inside series D.: Sheila Murphy P. : Michael Hendricks, Tamara Lynch Co-produced with Savoury Productions
Honourable mention 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA Octobcr 22 to 24, 1996
THE PRICE OF DlJTY Protection Force series D.: Garth Pritchard P : Jerry Krepakevich, Graydon McCrea
Best Production of the Festival Best Dociimentary over 30 minutes Best Direction in Documentary 22nd Annual Alberta Film & Television Awards (Rosies) Calgary, C.anada March 16, 1996
P HOJ ECT Ci H 1 ZZ IY D.: Peter Lynch P. : Michael Allder
MCTV Award - Best Ontario Film With a cash prize of $5,000 Cinefest '06 Sudbury, Canada September 17 to 22, 1996
-rH I: I? Ei-ucrAN-r iiE(:KiiAN D D.: Jan Padgett P. : George Johnson
Golden Sheaf Award - Best Children's Production 32nd Short Film and Video Festival Yorkton, Canada May 30 to June 2, 1996
Runner up Diverse Family Systems Category Media Awards Competition National Council on Family Relations East Lansing, USA November 9 to 13, 1996
Honourable Mention 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 1996
-riiE SANDBOX D.: JoDee Samuelson P. : Marilyn A. Belec
Golden Sheaf Award - Best Animation 32nd Short Film and Video Festival Yorkton, Canada Maj' 30 to June 2, 7996
Canadian Healthy Environment Award Arts, Media and Communications Category 7th Annual Canadian Healthy Environment Awards Halifax, Canada June 5. 1996
SANS I?AISON APPARIINTlf D.: Jean Chabot P. : Eric Michel
AQCC-Telefilm Canada Award - Best Medium-Length Film With a cash prize of $4,000 Quinzièmes Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois Montreal, Canada Februarv 27 to March 8, 1997
SCANT sANrrY D.: John Weldon P. : David Verrall
Silver Plaque International Film Festival Chicago, USA October 1 O to 20, 1996
SILENCE AND STORM D.: Jeremiah Hayes P. : Wolf Koenig, David Wilson,
Bronze Apple Award National Educational Media Network Competition Oakland, USA May 18, 1996
Sally Bochner, Judith Merritt
LE SORT III: I-~AIUII~RIQIJE D.: Jacques Godbout P. : Eric Michel
Best Direction (Jacques Godbout) Hot Docs! The Canadian Independent Film & Video Caucus Toronto, Canada March 28 to 23, 2997
'TAKING CHARGE D Claudette Jaiko P Chantal Bowen
Award of Merit instruction Category AMTEC Media FestiL al Vancou\ er, Canada June 14, 1996
TOlJ G I i ASSl Cà N NI EM'ï D.: John Walker P. : Adam Symansky. Tom Perlmutter,
John Walker Co-produced with Orbit Films
Best Editing in a documentary (Jeff Warren) Hot Docs! The Canadian independent Film & Video Caucus Toronto, Canada March 18 to 23, 1997
TO u-rA-ris D.: Catherine Fol P. : Éric Michel
Award for best scientific film (Ministère de la culture et des communications du Québec) TéléScience Montreal, Canada October 17 to 27, 1996
TIJ AS CRIÉ LIET IUIE GO D Anne Claire Poirier P Paul Lapointe, Joanne Carrière
Special Jury Mention (Association des femmes journalistes) Festival International de Films de Femmes Créteil, France March 24 to 23, 1997
lJN13 AR'I'ISTE/AN ARTIS'I' Rights from the Hcüri ~ Pari I I collection D.: Michèle Cournoyer P. : ï h é r è s e Descary
Bronze Apple Award National Educational Media Network Competition Oakland, USA Ma) 18, 1996
Special Prize For an esthetically beautiful piece told with originality and innovation Hiroshima '96 - 6th International Animation Film Festival Hiroshima, Japan August 22, î996
WA-rcii I N c; TV D.: Christopher Hinton P. . hlarcy Page
Second Prize Category A (30 seconds to 5 minutes) With a cash prize of 1000 German marks World Festival of Animated Films Zagreb, Croatia June 10 to 14, 2996
WHAT'S ERrlNC; YOlJ? Bcaut). Begins Inside çeries D.: Sheila Murphy P. : Michael Hendricks, Tamara Lynch Co-produced with Savoury Productions
Honourable Mention 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 1996
WIiO'S CO11 NT1 NG'! NIARI 1-Y N WARING ON SEX, 1,IIES AND Cà 1-OBAL 13CON OM ICS D: Terre Nash P. : Kent Martin
CHRIS Statuette Award 44th Columbus International Film & Video Festival Columbus, USA October 22 to 24, 2996
YOlJ WO N'T N 13 El3 13 1J N N 1 N G SHO ES, IIAH 1-1 N G D: Dorothy Todd Hénaut P. : Dorothy Todd Hénaut, Sally Bochner
Special Mention 11th International Congress on Care of the Terminally Il1 Montreal, Canada September 7 to 11, 1996
AU DITOR’S RE PO Aï
To the Minister of Canadian Heritage
1 have audited the balance sheet of the National Film Board as at March 31, 1997 and the statements of operations, accumulated deficit and accumulated net charge against the Revolving Fund’s authority for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Board’s management. My responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on my audit.
1 conducted my audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards Those standards require that 1 plan and perform an audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are frec of material misstateinent. An audit includes esamining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and discloçures in the financial çtatements. An audit also includeç assessing the accountinq principles used and significant estiinateç made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
in my opinion, these financial statements present fairly, in al1 material respects, the financial position of the Board as at March 31, 1997 and the results of its operations and the changes in its financial position for the year then ended in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
Further, i n my opinion, the transactions of the Board that have come to my notice during my audit of the financial statements have, in al1 significant respects, been in accordance with the Financial Administration Act and regulations, the National Film Act and the by-lawç of the Board.
Raymond Dubois, FCA Deputy Auditor General for the Auditor General of Canada
Ottawa, Canada July 12, 1997
BALANCE SHEiT AS AT NIARCH 3‘1, ‘1 997
Ciirrent assets
Capital assets iZOtC 4)
ASSETS
‘1 097
Cash Accounts receivable
Government of Canada Outside parties
Inventories 31
Deposits Prepaid expenses
$ 4 0 720
104 616 3 290 313
682 453 304 157 551 303
4 973 562
‘1 906
$285 552
647 904 3 O01 830 1 072 086
394 912 444 732
5 847 O16
Cost 47 695 075 50 031 886 Less. accumulated amortization 33 737 250 32 667 064
Approved by Management:
(3-L-e- Director Administration
n
Government Film Commissioner and Chairperson
BALANCE SHEEï AS A-r MARCH 31,199ï
Current liabilities
Long-term liabilities
LIABILITI ES
1997 1996
Accounts payable Government of Canada $ 3 264 341 S 2 873 794 Outside parties 4 899 752 6 734 130
Accrued salaries and vacations 1 275 295 1332 395 Advanceç on productions 49 024 239 325 Obligation for employee
termination benefits [Ycite 51 5 O90 O00 9 500 O00
Obligation under capital leaseç w o t e 61
Provision for employee 91 311
termination benefits 3 882 914
109 929
5 O09 183
3 974 225 5 119 112
Commitments and contingencies (Notes 12 and 131
EQUITY OF CANADA
Accumulated net charge against the Revolving Fund's authority iNotL 71
Accumulated deficit [Note 81
9 427 287 (9 048 537)
12 039 118 (14 626 036)
378 750 (2 586 918)
Approved by the Board:
Member Member
s'nr E NI 1: wr OF OPER ATIO M s FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,1997
English programming Production of films and other forms of visual presentations
Board's program Sponsored production
Markeiing of films and other forms of visual presentations
French programming Production of films and other forms of visual presentations
Board's program Sponsored production
Marketing of filins and other forms of \ isual presentationç
International programming Marketing of films and other forms of \ isual presentations
General services Distribution and other services Research and development
Management and administration
COSI of operations before employee termination benefits
Employee termination benefits i N m 5 1
Cost of operations after employee termination benefits
1997
$31 475 909 891 210
3 643 644 36 010 763
20 036 082 784 830
2 170 830 22 991 742
2 131 248
7 532 322 750 385
8 282 707
6 912 100
76 328 560
2 715 615
79 O44 175
1996
S 30 199 813 1 183 114
7 561 760 38 944 687
18 966 203 906 478
4 095 860 23 968 541
2 394 928
11 414 307 872 013
12 286 520
8 260 190
85 854 866
7 414 136
93 269 O02
STATE NI ENT OF OPE RATIONS FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31.1997
Revenues
STATENIENT OF ACÇlJ M ULATED DI3XIT FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,1997
'1 997
Production and marketing of films and other forms of visual presentations
English programming 891 210 French programming 784 830
Film prints. rentals and royalties Canadian distribution 2 468 092 International distribution 2 986 571
Services and miscellaneous 1281 057
8 411 760
Net cost of operations for the year $ 7 0 632 415
'1 997
Balance, beginning of year Net cost of operations for the year
$ 1 4 626 036 70 632 415 85 258 451
(76 209 914) $ 9 048 537
Parliamentary appropriation - Operations Balance, end of year
1996
1 191 828 964 935
2 997 849 3 289 690
1 273 149
9 717 451
$83 551 551
1998
$ 9 419 627 83 551 551 92 971 178
(78 345 142) $14 626 036
S'TATEM EMT OF ACCU M U I-KrED NET CHARGE AGAINST THE R EVOLVI MG FU M D'S Au-rHoi~ 1-rv FOR THE YEAR ENDED MARCH 31,1997
Operating activities
lnvesting activities
Financing activities
Net cost of operationç for the year I t e m not affecting the accumulated net charge against the Revolving Fund'ç authoritl
Obligation for employee termination benefitç
Amortisation Loss (gain) on disposal
Decreaçe in the provision for employee
(Decreaçe) increaçe in the pro\.içion
of capital aççets
termination benefits
of accrued vacations
1997
$ (70 632 415)
(3 450 000) 5 993 297
106 713
(2 086 268)
(41 230)
(70 109 903)
1996
$ (83 551 551)
5 400 O00 6 378 527
(144 673)
(200 445)
6 854
(72 111 288)
(Decrease) increaçe in the funded components of working capital (807 247) 4 265 640
(67 845 648) (70 917 150)
Acquisition of capital assets (3 058 949) (5 180 164) Acquisition under capital leases (94 798) (192 148) Proceedç from disposal
of capital aççetç 460 734 236 474 (5 135 838) (2 693 013)
Parliamentary appropriation 72 790 837 77 257 388 Decrease in the net book value of
capital aççets, net of obligation under capital leaseç 3 419 077 1 087 754
76 209 914
94 798
78 345 142
192 148
capital leaseç (82 718) (202 410) 78 334 880
Obligation under capital leases Payinentç on obligations under
76 221 994
Decrease for the year
Balance, beginning of year
Balance, end of year
(2 611 831)
12 039 118
(5 353 394)
17 392 512
$ 9 427 287 $12 039 118
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS MARCH 3‘1, ‘1 997
‘1 Authority and purposes The National Film Board is governed by the National Film Act. I t is established to initiate and promote the production and distribution of films in the national interest and in particular to:
produce and distribute and to promote the production and distribution of films designed to interpret Canada to Canadians and to other nations;
- represent the Government of Canada in its relations with perçons engaged in commercial motion picture film activity in connection with motion picture films for the Government or any department thereof;
- engage in research in film activity and to make available the results thereof to perçons engaged in the production of films;
- advise the Governor in Council in connection with film activities; and
- discharge such other duties relating to film activity as the Governor in Council may direct it to undertake.
Through CI revolving fund, a permanent authority from Parliament allows the Board to make payments out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for working capital and for interim financing of operating costs and of capital asset acquisitions and to record the change in the net book value of capital assets. This authority requires that the aggregate of admissible working capital and net book value of capital assets does not exceed $ 25 million. A parliamentary appropriation is voted annually to replenish the Revolving Fund for net acquisitions of capital assets and the admissible cost of operations The appropriation is recorded in the financial year to which it applies and any unused balance lapses.
2 Significant accounting policies Production of films and other forms of visual presentation
Al1 production costs are charged to operations in the year in which they are incurred and çhown in the statement of operations as follows:
Board’s program Al1 costs incurred for unsponsored productions, the Board’s share in coproductions and the excess of costs over the sponsor’s contribution for partially sponsored productions.
Sponsored production AH costs incurred for fully sponsored productions and the sponsored costs of partially sponsored productions.
Revenues from production of films and other forms of visual presentations are accounted for at an amount equal to the sponsored production costs during the year in which these costs are incurred. Any profit is recognized in the year the production is completed.
Film prints
The cost of prints made for sale purposes is recorded under inventories. The cost of other prints is expensed on a current basis.
inventories
Materials and supplies are carried at the standard cost.
Film prints and other forms of visual presentation held for sale are carried at the lower of the average direct cost of production and net realizable value.
Capital assets
Capital assets are carried at cost. Amortization is calculated on the straight-line mettiod over the estimated useful life of the açsets, as follows:
- Technical equipment from 4 to 10 years - Data processing equipment 5 years - Office furniture 10 years - Office equipment 5 years - Rolling stock 5 years
Leasehold improvements are charged to operations as incurred.
The Board enters into operating lease agreements to acquire the exclusive use of certain capital assets. These rental fees are charged to operations in the year to which they apply. The Board also enters into capital Ieaçe agreements by which almost al1 the benefits and risks inherent to ownership of the assets are transferred to the Board. The Board then records an asset and an obligation corresponding to the net preçent value of the acquisition price of the asset (excluding any interest expcnditure). The assets recorded from a capital lease agreement are ainorti7ed on the same basis as other assets owned by the Board and the obligations are amortized over the lease term.
Employee termination benefits
On iermination of employment, employees of the Board are entitled to certain bendits provided for under their collective agreements and their conditions of eniployment. The cost of these benefits is expensed in the year in which they are earned.
Pension plan
Admissible employees participate in the superannuation plan adniinistered by the Government of Canada. The employees and the Board contribute equally to the cost of the plan. This contribution represents the total liability of the Board. Contribu- tions in respect of current service and admissible past service are expensed during the year in which payments are made. The terms of payment for past service are set by the applicable purchase conditions in effect, generally over the number of years of service remaining prior to retirement.
The Board is not required under present legislation to make contributions with respect to actuarial deficiencies of the Public Service Superannuation Account.
3 Inventories ‘1 997 1996
Materials and supplies $566 643 $788 245 Film prints and other forms of
visuai preçentations 115 810 283 841 $682 453 $1 072 O86
4 Capital assets
Cost
Technical equipment Data processing
equipment Office furniture Office eqiiipment Rolling stock
Accumulated amortization
Technical equipment Data processing
equipment Office furniture Office eqiiipment Rolling stock
Balance, Acquisitions Disposals Balance, beginning end
of year of year
34 359 990 $ 1 115 926 $ 3 771 833 $ 3 1 704 083
12 625 460 1847664 1591064 12882060 1 721 350 177 250 42 058 1 856 542 1 235 030 12 907 68 503 1 179 434
90 056 - 17 100 72 956 $ 5 0 031 886 $ 3 153 747 $ 5 490 558 $47 695 O75
Balance, Arnortization Disposals Balance, beginning end
of year of year
$ 2 3 672 247 $ 3 962 927 $ 3 275 818 $24 359 356
7 232 395 1 613 240 1 547 909 7 297 726 995 934 179 452 33 010 1 142 376 689 785 231 753 54 642 866 896
76 703 5 925 11 732 70 896 $ 3 2 667 O ô 4 $ 5 993 297 $ 4 923 111 $33 737 250
The above assets include equipment under capital leases for a total value of $696 474 (1996 - S 1 266 477) less accumulated amortization of $381 999 (1996 - $1 033 472)
5 Employee termination benefits In 1995-96, the Board approved a downçizing plan to cope with budgetary restraints imposed by the federal government. The Board established early retirement and departure incentive programs with the saine conditions as available in the federal departments deemed most affected by staff cuts. These programs offer supplemen- tary benefits in addition to the regular termination benefits.
The current year expenses include $ 2 715 615 in additional expenses (1996 - $ 7 414 136) related to these programs. The short-term liability of $ 5 090 000 in the balance sheet includes $ 1 740 000 representing regular termination benefitç accumulated in prior years.
6. Obligatian under capital leases The Board has entered into agreements to rent technical, data processing and office equipment under capital leases. The assets have been capitalized at $696 474 using implicit interest rates varying from 10% to 19"/0. The related obligations are liquidated over the 3-year and 5-year lease terms and are divided into short-term and long-term portions in the balance sheet. Minimum lease payments totalling $116 900 for the year ended March 31, 1997, including interest of $34 182 were charged to operations.
The obligation under capital leases includes the following:
Future lease payments: 1998 $122 646 1999 103 319 2000 4 725
230 690 Less: interest 47 267
$983 423
Short-term portion $ 9 2 112 Long-term portion $ 9 1 311
ï Accumulated net charge against the Revolving Fund's authority
8 Accumulated deficit
1997 1996
Net book value of capital assets Funded components of working capital (5 154 363) Obligation under capital leases (183 423) (171 341)
$ 1 3 957 825 (4 347 115)
7
$ 1 7 364 822
The accumulated deficit is composed of the following items, which wili be funded by parliamentary appropriation in the year in which they are paid:
1997 1996
Accrued vacations $75 623 $116 853 Empioyee termination benefits - short-term 9 500 O00 Employee termination benefits - long-term 5 O09 183
$14 626 036
5 O90 O00 3 882 914
$ 9 O48 537
9 Expenses
10 Fair value of financial instruments
‘1 1 Relatecl-Party transactlons
‘1 2 Commitments
1997 ‘1 996
Salaries and benefits $34 297 496 $41 795 526 Rentals 9 904 545 9 970 630 Professional and special services 8 105 568 9 500 473 Amortization 5 993 297 6 378 527 Transportation and communication 4 266 548 4 632 721 Contracted film production and
labordtory processing 3 611 499 2 317 353 Cash financing in coproductions 3 533 953 2 706 541 Materials and supplies 3 484 613 5 093 390 Repairs and upkeep 915 O10 1 076 452 Information 879 719 1 224 594 Loss (gain) on disposal of capital asçets (144 673) Miscellaneous 1 229 599 1 103 332
85 854 866
7 414 136 02
106 713
76 328 360
2 715 615 Employee termination benefits w t L 51
Accounts receivable and accounts payable are incurred in the normal course of business. The carrying amounts of each of these accounts approximate their fair value because of their short-term maturity. There is no concentration of accounts receivable and, therefore, there iç no significant credit risk.
The Board is related in termç of common ownership to al1 departments, agencies and Crown corporations created by the Government of Canada. The Board enters into transactions with these entities in the normal course of business. During the year, the Board leased accommodations from Public Works and Government Services for the amount of $ 7 900 O00 (1996 - $ 8 551 000).
The Board haç long-term lease agreements for premises and equipment. Future mimimuni rental payments are as follows:
Premises Equipment Total
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
$1 345 O00 $283 O00 $1 628 O00 1 075 O00 52 O00 1 127 O00 1 004 O00 33 O00 1 037 O00
796 O00 23 O00 819 O00 227 O00 23 O00 250 O00
861 O00
From the arnount of $ 4 447 O00 for the lease for premises, agreements have been signed for $499 O00 with outside parties and $ 3 948 O00 with the Department of Public Workç and Government Services Canada.
13 Contingencies
14 Comparative figures
In the normal course of business, the Board is the defendant in pending daims or lawsuitç. It iç the opinion of Management that these actions will not result in any substantial liabilities for the Board.
Certain comparative figures have been reclassified to conform with the preçentation adopted in 1997.
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