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10 Entertainment The Leader-Post Regina May 25, 1987 Oi, CANADA 5 LARGEST AND BEST KNOW RECORD STORE Montreal wins top film about incest Yorkton awards ANNIVERSARY SALE Reg. priced LPs tapes We see the father as being a nice person. Its very difficult to pass a moral judgement on him. The horror and the abandonment the child felt comes through and we see how a victim of incest tries to break free, she said. Barrette said it is unfortunate the film is in French because to share these kinds of emotions there must be no language barriers, she said.

She expects an English version will be done soon. The best showing by a Saskatche-wan film-maker was Elise Swerhone who directed Tommy Douglas: Keeper of the Flame. The 58-minute, $250,000 budgeted film was produced by the National Film Board, Montreal and won the Antoinette (Nettie) Kryski Canadian Heritage Award of $500. Once a champion boxer, then a preacher, T.C. Douglas stepped into politics during the 1920s and never looked back.

His career as Premier of Saskatchewan and leader of the federal New Democratic Party makes for an interesting film. The films director, Swerhone was born and raised in Canora, 30 miles north of Yorkton although she now lives in Winnipeg and is a freelance film-maker. It was a real honor to make the film and to work with Tommy Douglas, she said. As one of Canadas leading politicians, the film takes us back though his life from 1935 to 1975. They began putting the film together in 1983 but it wasnt completed until the spring of 1986.

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7.99 LPORCASS. NANA MOUSKOURI Love Me Tender" 7.99 By Beverley Bucholtz for The Leader-Post YORKTON The price of an airplane ticket between Montreal and Regina almost prevented Jacqueline Barrette from personally picking up a Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival Saturday. Barrette wrote the script and acted in Le Lys casse (Death of Silence) which won Best Production of the Festival, Best Cinematogra-phyVideography, Best Script, Superchannel Best Script Cash Award of $1,000 and Best Drama Production Over 30 Minutes. She learned the film had been nominated but couldn't afford plane fare from Montreal. I phoned Telefilm Canada Thursday to see if I could get some money for theplane trip.

I didnt hear anything from them. Then Friday Telefilm phoned me and said I was going. I had two hours to throw my suitcase and clothes together, she said. More than 200 people gathered at the Parkland Agriplex in Yorkton to watch the coveted Golden Sheaf Awards. This year marked the 40th anniversary of North Americas longest running short film festival.

Entries totalled 199, topping even festival officials expectations since this was the first year the event was held in the spring. But for 39-year-old Barrette, who has been writing since she was 23, the award was overwhelming. Its the first time she has written a script for film. Directed by Andre Melancon and produced by Nanouk Films of Montreal, the film is shot YORKTON (Special) The 1987 Golden Sheaf Award winners are: Best Production of the Festival, Best Drama Over 30 Minutes Le Lys casse. Best CinematographyVideogra-phy Guy Dufaux.

Best Script Superchannel Best Script Jacqueline Barrette for Le Lys casse. Best Documentary Production Over 30 Minutes Prairie Women, directed by Barbara Evans, produced by National Film Board, Montreal. Best Documentary Production Under 30 Minutes Journey to Prague, directed by Davied Cherniack, produced by CBC, Toronto. Best Drama Production Under 30 Minutes Elise Et La Mer directed by Stella Goulet, produced by Spriafilm, Quebec. Best Experimental Production Undivided Attention directed by Chris Gallagher, produced by Christopher Gallagher Vancouver.

Best Fine Arts Production, Best Original Music Score Rene Lus-sierJean Derome Painted Landscapes The Times The Art of Sue Coe, directed by Helene Klo-dowski, produced by Les Productions du Regard Montreal. Best HealthMedicine Production on location at Mascouche, near Montreal. The 48-minute film produced on a $350,000 budget deals with the inner torture of an adult woman at grips with the memories of an incestuous childhood. It show the various characters and events by means of repeated flashbacks (in black and white for impact as well as psychological symbolism and shows a tormented present, full of guilt, despair and emotion. In her first film role, Markita Boies plays the young woman she travels into the past reliving early memories walking beside her younger self played by Jessica Barker at six and Mahee Paiement at 11.

One year after the death of her father, Marielle has changed considerably. She fills her daily life with solitude, alcohol and carelessness. At 29, she still isnt free of the memory of the incestuous relationship she experienced between the ages of six to 11. One scene shows the adult daughter cursing her father in his grave, striking his tombstone in anger with an arrangement of white lillies until they break and fall all over his grave. The idea for the script came from a close friend who inspired me because it happened with her father, Barrette said.

She hopes the audience will not pass moral judgement on the characters of father and mother but feel compassion for the little girl who is left horrified, abandoned and frightened. IftKoMUdlsSIM SIHIETA1BB FAYWA1R1D1S1 The Ticker Test, directed by Jim Purdy. Best InstructionalEducational Production Type It directed by Michelle Stirling, produced by Access Network, Edmonton Best Music Video Production and Only You directed by Mark GaneMartha Johnson, produced by Current Records, Toronto. Best NatureEnvironment Production Replanting The Tree of Life, directed by David Leach, produced by Asterisk Film and Video Productions Toronto Best Promotional Production My Land Is My Life, directed by guidelines for financial support. If you dont fit into their formula you dont get any money to make your film.

Attitude is the problem with Telefilm and it is up to the independent producers to change that, he said in an interview. Telefilm underestimates the audience, he said, because they think its easier to make shlop then show something controversial or out of the ordinary. Jones also said they were disappointed that Cinema Canada magazine did not come to the festival. Jones said he spent four days including 31 hours viewing the films and found an explosion of creativity which is exciting to see in the Canadian independent film scene, Elwyn Vermette, chairman of this OFF Reg. priced CDs LPORCASS.

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Certificates of Merit went to Crossfire: Aids Victim, Poundmak-ers Lodge: A Healing Place, A Game Of Death. Antoinette (Nettie Kryski Canadian Heritage Award) Tommy Douglas: Keeper Of The Flame, directed by Elise Swerhone, produced by NFB, Montreal. Petro-Canada Emerging Filmmaker Award Summer 86 Neighbourhood Notebook, directed by Edward Hillel and produced by Videographe, Montreal. years festival, announced the 1988 event will be held May 25 to 29. The 1988 film festival will feature an international showcase of new film and video, he said.

There were 199 entries in the 1987 festival and 22 Golden Sheaf Awards were handed out as well as $3,000 in cash awards. In 1988, the National Film Board of Canada will give an annual award to honor and encourage independent documentary film-making in Canada. The NFB Kathleen Shannon Documentary Award will be handed to an independently-made documentary film that provides an opportunity for people outside the dominant culture to express their perspectives. A $1,000 cash prize will go with it. current mini-tour that began Thursday.

Before the show, drummer Keith Knudsen, who organized the performance, explained to the audience that the cause of Vietnam veterans was worth a reunion. Everything goes to them, all the money from your tickets, all the money from the T-shirts outside, Knudsen said. "It's all theirs. About 2,000 Vietnam veterans were invited to the show for free. Looking for a second car? The Classified section Is a complete car buyer's guide.

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Andy Jones, a member of the festival jury and also a writer, actor and director from Newfoundland, read a prepared statement accusing both groups of ignoring one of the most important events in Canada the Yorkton festival. Jones, spokesman for the group members who met during the film festival, said Telefilm spends a lot of money sending people to the Cannes Festival in France but Yorkton appears to be low on the list of priorities. In an interview following the awards, Jacqueline Barrette, who wrote the script that won Best Production of the Festival and Best Script along with other awards, said she couldnt afford the plane fare from Montreal and Telefilm paid for it. Jones said independent film-makers are planning a demonstration in front of Telefilm office in Montreal to protest Telefilms operation. There is so much money available.

Independent producers have so little and are expected to work for nothing with very few facilities to make a statement," he said. "All Telefilm wants is American-type shlop that they think people want to watch on television. Jones said producers object to whathey perceive as Teiifilin's Doobies boogie for vets LOS ANGELES AP) The reunited Doobie Brothers raised an estimated $350,000 for Vietnam veterans as they boogied before a sell-out crowd at the Hollywood Bowl. This is for all you vets. Welcome home, the bands original leader, Tommy Johnston, told the audience Saturday night after the musicians returned to the stage for a second encore and played their first big hit, Listen to the Music.

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