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27th Canadian Film Awards
The 27th Canadian Film Awards were held on October 24, 1976 to honour achievements in Canadian film. The ceremony was hosted by Lorne Greene, and was held at the conclusion of the inaugural 1976 Toronto International Film Festival, 1976 Festival of Festivals. Due to ongoing issues with Quebec filmmakers, the CFA's receipt of its annual government grant was contingent upon the reaching of a compromise by the two groups. It was eventually agreed that the two sides would take turns hosting the awards. To shore up public support, there was an increased PR campaign and Canadian Television Network, CTV aired a one-hour broadcast of the awards ceremony. After pre-selection, total submissions to the jury were 171 films, including 17 features and 76 documentaries. After much discussion about whether or not to add a commercial-value award, the CFAs introduced the Golden Screen Award (Canada), Golden Reel Award, presented to the year's top-grossing Canadian film.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CFTO-DT
CFTO-DT (channel 9) is a television station in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, serving as the Flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the CTV Television Network. It is owned-and-operated station, owned and operated by network parent Bell Media alongside Barrie-based CTV 2 outlet CKVR-DT, channel 3 (although the two stations maintain separate operations). CFTO-DT's studios are located at 9 Channel Nine Court in Agincourt, Toronto, Agincourt, and its transmitter is located atop the CN Tower in Downtown Toronto. The station shares the Agincourt studio complex with CTV's headquarters, which includes studios for the network's news programming (''CTV National News'' and the CTV News Channel (Canadian TV channel), CTV News Channel), along with most of Bell Media's specialty channels. History The station first signed on the air at 10:00 p.m. on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1960; its first official day of programming was on New Year's Day, January 1, 1961. The inaugural progra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Film Board Of Canada
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Office national du film du Canada (ONF)) is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor. An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and alternative dramas. In total, the NFB has produced over 13,000 productions since its inception, which have won over 5,000 awards. The NFB reports to the Parliament of Canada through the Minister of Canadian Heritage. It has bilingual production programs and branches in English and French, including multicultural-related documentaries. History Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau The Exhibits and Publicity Bureau was founded on 19 September 1918, and was reorganized into the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau in 1923. The organization's budget stagnated and declined during the Great Depression. Frank Badgley, who served as the bureau's director from 1927 to 1941, stated that the bure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Far Shore
''The Far Shore'' is a Canadian drama film, directed by Joyce Wieland and released in 1976."Far Shore beautiful but flat". ''The Globe and Mail'', September 25, 1976. Wieland's first commercial narrative feature film after years of making experimental short films, the film is a romantic drama which borrows elements from the life and death of painter Tom Thomson. It premiered at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, before having its Canadian premiere at the Canadian Film Institute's Ottawa 76 festival in August. Plot Eulalie (Celine Lomez), a Québécois woman in a loveless marriage to wealthy industrialist Ross Turner (Lawrence Benedict), begins an affair with painter Tom McLeod ( Frank Moore). Production Wieland wrote the initial outline of the film in 1969, after viewing a retrospective show of Thomson and the Group of Seven. Doug Fetherling, "Joyce Wieland in Movieland: What was a fine artist doing in a world of hype and hustle?" ''Toronto Star'', January 24, 1976. The film was or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Moore (Canadian Actor)
Frank Moore (born 1946 in Bay de Verde, Newfoundland) is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.Frank Moore ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', April 24, 2009. He won the for Best Supporting Actor in 1976 for the film '''', and was also a nominee for Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Lightstone
Marilyn Lightstone (born 28 June 1940) is a Canadian stage, film and television actress and writer. Biography Early life and education Born in Montreal, Quebec, Marilyn Lightstone graduated from Baron Byng High School in 1957. She went on to attend McGill University where she received a bachelor's degree. Lightstone then attended and graduated from the National Theatre School. Career She starred on Canadian television as Miss Stacey in '' Anne of Green Gables'' and ''Road to Avonlea''. She has won two Canadian Film Awards; a Genie for Best Actress in ''Lies My Father Told Me'' and a Genie for Best Supporting Actress for '' In Praise of Older Women''. She won an award for Best Actress at the Moscow International Film Festival for ''The Tin Flute''. Her stage roles include Goneril in ''King Lear'' at the Lincoln Centre in New York, Mash in Chekov's ''The Seagull at the Stratford Festival and Leah in ''The Dybbuk. In 1976, Lightstone starred in a play produced by Moses Znaime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bound For Glory (1975 Film)
''Bound for Glory'' (french: Partis pour la gloire) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Clément Perron and released in 1975. Set against the backdrop of the 1942 Canadian conscription plebiscite, the film is set in a small town in the Beauce region of Quebec where resistance to the war is high and many men have fled into the woods to escape being conscripted."Clément Perron's Partis pour la gloire". ''Cinema Canada'', February 1976. pp. 45-46. The film's cast includes Serge L'Italien, Rachel Cailhier, Jacques Thisdale, André Melançon, Yolande Roy, Jean-Marie Lemieux, Louise Ladouceur and Jean-Pierre Masson. Melançon won the Canadian Film Award for Best Actor at the 27th Canadian Film Awards.Maria Topalovich, ''And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards''. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. . pp. 111-114. References External links''Partis pour la gloire''at the National Film Board of Canada The National Film Board of Canada (NFB; french: Of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Melançon
André Melançon (February 18, 1942 - August 23, 2016) was a Canadian actor, screenwriter and film director, best known for directing and writing several installments in the Tales for All series of children's films. Career The versatile André Mélançon – director, writer and actor – set out to become a youth guidance counsellor before he veered into film. His background in psychology and education helped orient his filmmaking toward films about, with, and for children. His first film was on Quebec separatist Charles Gagnon, then at the request of producer Jean Dansereau he directed a trio of short films for children in the early 1970s that confirmed the direction of his career. He turned to acting and won a Canadian Film Award for his performance in '' Bound for Glory (Partis pour la gloire)''. In the 1980s he directed ''The Dog Who Stopped the War'', which won the Golden Reel Award, and ''Bach et bottine'', and wrote, with Jacques Bobet, ''Tadpole and the Whale'' also a G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael J
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= *Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephoros I * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For Gentlemen Only
''For Gentlemen Only'' is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Michael Scott and released in 1976. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film stars Ed McNamara and Hugh Webster as two retired men living in a men's rooming house, who are struggling with change when the home is acquired by a new owner who plans to rent rooms to women for the first time. The film won three awards at the 27th Canadian Film Awards, for Best TV Drama, Best Actor in a Non-Feature (shared between McNamara and Webster) and Best Screenplay for a Non-Feature (David King).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. . References External links * 1976 films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Leaf
Caroline Leaf (born August 12, 1946 in Seattle, Washington) is a Canadian-American filmmaker, animator, director, tutor and artist. She has produced numerous short animated films and her work has been recognized worldwide. She is best known as one of the pioneering filmmakers at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). She worked at the NFB from 1972 to 1991. During that time, she created the sand animation and paint-on-glass animation techniques. She also tried new hands-on techniques with 70mm IMAX film. Her work is often representational of Canadian culture and is narrative based. Leaf now lives in London UK and is a tutor at The National Film and Television School. She maintains a studio in London working in oils and on paper and does landscape drawing with iPad. Biography and early work Leaf was born in Seattle, Washington and lived in Boston. She attended Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and majored in Architectural Sciences from 1964-1968. for visual arts from 1964-1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Glover
Guy Glover (November 5, 1910 in London, U.K. – May 17, 1988 in Hudson, Canada) was a senior National Film Board of Canada (NFB) producer and administrator. Career Guy Glover's career as an NFB senior producer and administrator spanned more than 35 years and more than 200 films. His family immigrated from England in 1913, and as a young man studied at the University of British Columbia. He co-founded the Progressive Arts Club of Vancouver and in 1936 participated in a production of ''Waiting for Lefty'', which played Vancouver and was invited to the Dominion Drama Festival in Ottawa. A chance meeting with Norman McLaren back in London, England, in 1937 changed the course of his professional and personal life. The pair relocated to New York City in 1939 then in 1941, Film Commissioner John Grierson invited both McLaren and Glover to join the fledgling NFB. By 1945 the bilingual Glover was put in charge of a small group of French-Canadian filmmakers then working in the Ottawa studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Street (1976 Film)
''The Street'' is a 1976 animated short by Caroline Leaf, based on a short story of the same name by Mordecai Richler, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Summary Animated using paint on glass animation, and set on Saint Urbain Street in Montreal, it explores the reactions of Jewish family in the early 20th century to the death of a grandmother. Production The film had a budget of $49,223 (). Awards ''The Street'' garnered numerous awards including a special prize from the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and two Canadian Film Awards (now known as the Genie Awards) for Best Animated Film and the Wendy Michener Award, presented in recognition of outstanding artistic achievement in Canadian cinema. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 49th Academy Awards The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
