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He declined to be interviewed. The six categories left out of the awards were: documentary under 30 minutes, experimental, fine arts, healthmedicine, natureenviron-ment and music video. The jury repeated its earlier stance that there were no entrants in those categories that met the standard of a Golden Sheaf. In addition, the jury moved three productions into different categories before awarding them Golden Sheaf awards. Other award winners were: The Man Who Planted Trees (directed by Frederic Back) for animation; InsideOut (Lori Spring) for drama under 30 minutes; Les Enfants de lau Rue: Fernand (Roger Tetreault) for instructional or educational; and Shooting Stars (Allan Stein) for sports and recreation.

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730 Albert St. 757-B54S REGINAIBINGOIRAL'ACE By Patrick Davitt II of The Leader-Post I YORKTON Not only were there Golden Sheaf awards left over Sat- urday night, they were one grand prize short. And a new documentary award changed hands even before it was given. True to its word, the jury at the Short Film and Video Fes-t tival did not make awards in six categories. -And while the crowd was still Tbuzzing over the missed awards, the Ijury threw another curve by splitting the Award of Excellence, the festivals top prize.

Ji The Quebec drama LEmprise pvill share the award never before Jihared with Foster Child, a docu- mentary. i. LEmprise was the big winner at Ithe festival, earning five Golden Sheaf awards in addition to its share of the top honor. The film won awards for best drama over 30 minutes, best performance (Genevieve Bu jold best cinematography, best -sound and best director. Child was named best documentary over 30 minutes, and cinematogapher James Jeffrey was 'given a certificate of merit for his 1 work on the film.

Foster Child also won the National Film Board-Kathleen Shannon (Award for documentary, but only vafter a last-minute emergency ifneeting. The award is given to a documentary production that provides an opportunity for people outside the dominant culture to express their (perspective. According to both festival staff and an early list of awards, the award was originally given (to Break the Cycle, a film about domestic violence. But after the meeting, involving 1 the jury, some festival officials and Shannon herself, the award was given to Foster Child, a film about a Metis mans effort to find out about 90 Broad TUESDAY AFTERNOON Reg. Games Pay 150 FREE 6-Up with 9-Up, 12-Up or Sr.

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Jurors interviewed said the award was changed because its qualifications had been misunderstood. The criteria (for the award) were clarified, and we realized we had made the wrong choice, said Martin Duckworth, a noted documentary maker from Montreal. The criteria, as published in the festival program, said the winning production should be an independently-made documentary production. Break the Cycle was an independent production. Before presenting the award, Shannon said that the criteria should have read a film by an independent film-maker.

An independent film-maker should not be disqualified from institutional support," she said. Foster Child was made by independent film-maker Gil Cardinal, who received financial support from the NFB. The award includes a $1,000 cash prize from the NFB. Neither Duckworth nor anyone else would say who clarified the criteria at the meeting to make Foster Child eligible. Meanwhile, the six unawarded I POT OF GOLD 9900:4 EVEfJACKPOTi1900 1 MAtJACKPOT 4300 V03, Jubilee Building 352-6581 REGINA COMMUNITY BINGO More Chance to win BIGI MORE GROWING JACKPOTS Monday and Tuesday 5-9 p.m.

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And if the film doesnt measure up, the film-maker at least has something better with which to compare it. Provided there is a best film in a category to use as a measuring stick. But such measurement is impossible if the comparison has to be made with an undefined and, to hear the jurors talk, an undefinable standard. How, for instance, does the creator of an experimental film or music video both categories that were passed over decide what improvements to make if she is forced to compare it with the standard set by a drama or documentary? Lack of feedback from jurors was often mentioned by film-makers who brought their work to the festival not so much to win prizes as to discuss how they might improve their craft. The jury this year experimented with tape recording their comments about films, but found the system cumbersome and unworkable.

Written notes would be equally difficult. A good bet for feedback seemed to come in the Saturday afternoon forum that brought together entrants and jurors, but holding it before the awards were announced greatly restricted the free flow of ideas. The forum will very likely be moved to after the awards, when the jurors can be more candid when they discuss which films they liked and why. But there is another, simpler way the jury can tell film-makers what they liked: by awarding the prizes. It is a thorny issue.

But the organizers and officials of the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival have come a long way in nurturing the festival to its present excellence, and we have every reason to trust they will continue, It was, by all accounts, the best, (most polished Yorkton Film Festival ever held in the events 38 years. There were more entrants, more screenings, more social events and more facilities than ever before. There was also more trouble. Even as the band was playing at the awards banquet the murmurs were starting, most of them focus-; Ing on the festival jurys actions in jiot awarding six of the festivals 22 "Golden Sheaf awards and arbitrarily moving films into different categories. Nobody can argue with the jurys decisions, which it reached in accor-I dance with its group conscience (and, more importantly, within the rules.

But all that means is that festival organizers are going to have to take long hard look at the rules when they plan next years festival. Of course, any contest involving a jury is going to be subject to second-guessing. If the jury had made all Jhe awards there would have been questions about which films -won. Thats the nature of subjective judging. (And the jurors make a valid point when they say that they have to pro-I tect the "Yorkton standard, so that I deserving winners do not have their (awards tarnished by undeserving winners.

JAn award, after all, is only as meaningful as its least-worthy recipient. But to leave the jury as the sole arbiter of what constitutes the ilYorkton standard" and whether (films attain it, is to invite more trouble. After all, the festival did engage a (pre-selection panel that narrowed the field from more than 300 films to 77. I The prize jury, though, ignored (some of those 77, and so basically 'Said that the pre-selectors were in-i capable of determining the "York- "ton I So what do next year's jurors do, Bs guardians of the lolly "standard" established by this years jury? As an entrant said alter the gwards, "Will next years jurhave (to make even fewer awards?" It had belter not. Yorkton, though the longest-run-Thing continuous short-film lest iv al ih North America, is not truly in the big leagues.

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