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16th Canadian Film Awards
The 16th Canadian Film Awards were held on May 8, 1964 to honour achievements in Canadian film. This year saw 148 films entered, including five features, and the fact that a French-language film won Film of the Year was a tremendous boost for Francophone film production. The awards' international reputation was also cemented, as the gala was attended by 500 people from all over North America, including a large number of international journalists. The ceremony was moved back to Toronto; its hosts were comedians Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 65-67. Winners Films * Film of the Year: ''Pour la suite du monde'' — National Film Board of Canada, Fernand Dansereau producer, Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault directors *Feature Film: ''À tout prendre'' (aka ''All Things Considered'' aka ''Take it All'') — Les Films Cassiopée, Orion Films, Claude Jut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairmont Royal York
The Fairmont Royal York, formerly and still commonly known as the Royal York, is a large historic luxury hotel in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located along Front Street West, the hotel is situated at the southern end of the Financial District, in Downtown Toronto. The Royal York was designed by Ross and Macdonald, in association with Sproatt and Rolph, and built by the Canadian Pacific Railway company. The hotel is currently managed by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. Opened on 11 June 1929, the Châteauesque-styled building is tall, and contains 28 floors. It is considered one of Canada's grand railway hotels. After its completion, the building was briefly the tallest building in Toronto, as well as the tallest building in the country, and the British Empire, until the nearby Canadian Bank of Commerce Tower was built the following year. The building has undergone several extensive renovations since it first opened, with its first major renovation in 1972. An underground walkway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Jutra
Claude Jutra (; March 11, 1930 – November 5, 1986) was a Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter."Claude Jutra" at . The , and the 's , were named in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Brede
Stan Brede was a Canadian cinematographer. He was most noted for his role as Director of Photography for Crawley Films, which produced hundreds of films through the 1940s, '50s and '60s. In 1964, at the 16th Canadian Film Awards, Brede won a special award for his work on James W. Turpie's short documentary ''Brampton Builds a Car''.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing Stoddart Publishing was a Canadian book publisher and distributor, owned by Jack Stoddart, which ceased operations in 2002.UncreditedBook giant Stoddart files for creditor protection CBC News, May 1, 2002. Retrieved 2016-01-15. History General ..., 2000. . pp. 65-67. References External links * Year of birth missing Year of death missing Canadian cinematographers Best Cinematography Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners Place of birth missing {{Canada-cinematographer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hutterites (film)
''The Hutterites'' is a 1964 film directed by Colin Low for the National Film Board of Canada. It was produced to help calm anti-Hutterite tensions in Alberta and remains the only film that fully depicts and explains the sect's way of life. Background The Hutterites are an Anabaptist sect founded in Austria in 1528 during the Protestant Reformation. Their leader was Jakob Hutter, who was burned at the stake in 1536. The sect continued on, but was chased out of Moravia, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Russia and Ukraine before arriving in the U.S. in 1874, where they settled in the Dakotas. In 1918, anti-Hutterite sentiment in the U.S. had spread to the point where many were forced to leave. After obtaining assurances from the Canadian government that they would have permanent freedom of worship and a permanent exemption from military service, 12 Hutterite families moved from South Dakota to Canada, settling in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. At the time, the Canadian Pacific Rai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Spotton
John Spotton Canadian Society of Cinematographers, C.S.C. (January 1, 1927 - March 3, 1991) was a Canadian filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada. A versatile artist who worked as a director, producer, cinematographer and editor, Spotton was best known for his role in developing the Direct Cinema genre of documentary and in the application of those techniques in narrative fiction films, in particular ''Nobody Waved Good-bye'' (1964), in which he served as cinematographer and editor. An early member of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC), Spotton briefly working as a cameraman for a private company, joined the NFB in 1949 and worked there for the rest of his life, with the exception of a three-film stint with Parker Film Associates, and a two-year period in the 1970s when he worked with Potterton Productions. He was executive director of the NFB's Ontario Centre from 1982 until 1988. Until it closed in 2002, The NFB's theatre in Toronto was named The John S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molson Export
Molson Export beer is a Canadian ale brewed by Molson at a strength of 5% alcohol by volume. It was first brewed in 1903 and is the oldest Molson beer brand still in production. Label In 1955, the boat on the label was chosen to replace the previous anchor and crown logo. Recipe Export is made using several varieties of two-row malted barley, an ale yeast strain dating back to the foundation of the Molson Brewery, and Golding and Oregon hops. Prizes and awards ; Best beer in its category: *Molson Export won the gold medal in the ''Best North American Style Blonde/Golden Ale'' category at th2010 ''Canadian Brewing Awards'' This contest brings together breweries from across Canada and selects the best beers from among them in a blind taste competition. The 2010 edition saw a total of 76 breweries submitting 390 beers across 31 categories. A panel of 20 judges selected the winners based on specific criteria, namely the taste, appearance, aroma, mouth-feel, and overall impress ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Anderson (filmmaker)
Robert Anderson (1913 – June 3, 1997) was a Canadian filmmaker who specialized in films about psychiatry, first with the National Film Board of Canada, and then through his own company. He was the first filmmaker to create truthful, objective films about mental health and addiction, and to make films of this type using actual patients, doctors and hospitals, rather than actors in reconstructions. His most famous film is ''Drug Addict'', which caused a furor when it was banned in the United States. Anderson was co-founder of the Canadian National Science Film Library, and he played a large role in bringing television to the Canadian House of Commons. Biography Anderson was born in Bismarck, North Dakota. His family moved to Winnipeg when he was 14, and then to Saskatoon. While in law school at the University of Saskatchewan, he and a friend proposed to the local radio station, CFQC, that they do a weekly variety show called ''University Hour''; the show ran for a year. After gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Brittain
Donald Code Brittain, (June 10, 1928 – July 21, 1989) was a film director and producer with the National Film Board of Canada. Career ''Fields of Sacrifice'' (1964) is considered Brittain's first major film as director. His other notable directorial credits include the 1964 feature documentary ''Bethune'', 1965 documentaries '' Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen'' and ''Memorandum'' and the Genie Award-winning 1979 documentary '' Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed''. He also directed the first-ever IMAX film, ''Tiger Child'' for Expo '70, and '' Earthwatch'', a 70mm film for Expo 86. He wrote the 1975 Oscar-nominated short documentary '' Whistling Smith''. He co-directed the 1976 feature documentary '' Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry'' which garnered 6 Canadian Film Awards and an Academy Award nomination. Brittain also directed the three-part CBC-coproduced series ''The Champions'', chronicling the lives and battles of Canadian politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fields Of Sacrifice
''Fields of Sacrifice'' is a 1964 documentary by Donald Brittain about Canadian war dead. The film visits former battlefields where over 100,000 Canadian soldiers lost their lives in World War I and World War II and examines Canadian military cemeteries and memorials from Hong Kong to Sicily. Production ''Fields of Sacrifice'' was produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) for the Canadian Department of Veteran Affairs. The film was originally intended to be a straightforward look at Canadian military cemeteries. Brittain, a staff filmmaker who had just completed the 13-part ''Canada at War'' series, decided on different approach. He combined stock footage with glimpses of the former battlegrounds a generation later and added his own commentary. Brittain shows that while these former battlefields are now peaceful and people are getting on with their lives, the sacrifices of Canadians are not forgotten. The film was narrated by Douglas Rain and shot in 35 mm. Theatrical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Chetwynd
Arthur Chetwynd Bt. (1913– 2004) was a Canadian film producer and founder and president of the pioneering film production company Chetwynd Films. He was an early, prolific producer of high-quality sponsored short documentaries; it has been estimated that he produced as many as 3,000 films. At the 12th Canadian Film Awards in 1960, Chetwynd was presented with a Special Award "for dedicated service in the interest of Canadian filmmakers as an executive officer of the Association of Motion Picture Producers and Laboratories of Canada". In 1981, the 2nd Genie Awards presented a one-time Chetwynd Award for Business Promotion. Early life Arthur Ralph Talbot Chetwynd was born in the ghost town of Walhachin, a once-affluent hamlet in Thompson Country, in the British Columbia Interior. His father, Ralph Chetwynd was an English war hero (Military Cross 1918) who had moved to Canada to go into the cattle and fruit-growing business; he would become one of the founders of the Pacific G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Koenig
Joseph (Joe) Koenig (born August 14, 1930) is a Canadian filmmaker and entrepreneur who was the founder and president of Electronics Workbench. Biography Koenig was born in Dresden, Germany; his family fled Nazi Germany in 1937, emigrating to Canada and settling on a farm along the Grand River, outside what is now known as Cambridge, Ontario. His older brother Wolf Koenig was also a filmmaker. National Film Board of Canada Koenig began his career as a filmmaker in 1956 at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). He directed and/or produced 52 films, including '' Cosmic Zoom'', '' Christopher's Movie Matinée'' and '' The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes''. Among his numerous honours, he won two BAFTA awards, for ''Energy and Matter'' (1966) and '' The Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes'' (1968). International Cinemedia Center Productions He left the NFB in 1971 and, with colleagues John Kemeny, George Kaczender and Don Duprey, formed International Cinemedia Center Productions ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Daly (filmmaker)
Thomas Cullen Daly, OC (April 25, 1918 – September 18, 2011) was a Canadian film producer, film editor and film director, who was the head of Studio B at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) in the 1950s and 1960s. On April 27, 2000, he was honored by being made an Officer in the OC (Order of Canada). During his 44-year career at the NFB, Daly produced and executive-produced more than 300 films."NFB pioneer Tom Daly dies at age 93." '''' September 21, 2011. Retrieved: May 2, 2016. Early years Daly learned the art of film editing from filmmaker Stuart Legg and doc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
