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A10 Leader-Post Arts Life Monday, May 30, 2005 NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA YORKTON FILM FESTIVAL Shadow Pleasures enjoys accolades David Franklin, chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada, is shown with a sketch by Renaissance artist Jacopo da Pontormo. The gallery acquired the work for $3.1 Yorkton are an honour, but it goes farther than that as well. These are the things that really keep you going, he said, adding collecting so much hardware in Yorkton was beyond my wildest imagination. Gentile said, in the end, filmmaking is a hard way to make a living. It's not even a living," he continued.

Its an affliction. It's something you just have to do. That being said, success is not always there, so when awards do come it gives you encouragement, as well as spurring one on to do better in the future. Shadow Pleasures also earned Golden Sheaf Awards for Best Overall Sound Fiction category for Orest Sushko and David Rose, Best Editing Fiction for Andy Attalai, Best Original Music Fiction for John Gwzoski, Rick Hyslop and Anne Bourne, and Best Photography Fiction for Paul Tolton. When it came to the Best of Saskatchewan Golden Sheaf, it went to Escape From Iran: The Hollywood Option, produced by Partners In Motion in Regina.

Escape from Iran commemorates the 25th anniversary of The Canadian Caper documenting the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran by militant Iranian students, the escape of six prisoners and the Canadian embassy officials who sheltered them. Nova Herman, producer of the film said the Golden Sheaf was not expected. It was a complete surprise to win, she said, adding she had watched a lot of the other shows nominated in the same category, and I was impressed. Herman said the quality of the Best of Saskatchewan category speaks to the depth of filmmaking taking place in the province. She said its certainly possible to succeed in the industry from here.

Im born and bred in Saskatchewan and proud to be a Saskatchewan filmmaker, she said, adding films produced here can compete around the world. By CALVIN DANIELS for the Leader-Post YORKTON It was a night for Shadow Pleasures at this years Golden Sheaf Awards. The performing arts film based on the works of famed author Michael Ondaatje took home the Golden Sheaf Award of Excellence, the highest honour of the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival. The film, which was nominated in seven categories of the 58th annual festival, also won six other Golden Sheaf Awards, including Best Performing ArtsEntertainment film. The 58-minute film is a fusion of poetry, prose, dance and sound.

The stories are brought to life by director Veronica Tennant, who has an Emmy Award to her credit, as well as being a former pri-ma ballerina. Tennant also collected the Golden Sheaf for Best Director Fiction at the awards gala Saturday. Ondaatje, best known for his books The English Patient and Running in the Family, narrates the film, and some of Ondaatjes other works, including The Cinnamon Peeler, Tropical Rumours, Power and The Nine Sentiments are the subject of this translation to film. This really was a film of love, said producer Peter Gentile shortly after accepting the major award at North Americas longest-running film festival. He explained the film ran into a number of obstacles during production, including a funding situation that left them scrambling for dollars.

And, we were shooting while the power outage was going on in Toronto. We were in the dark setting up sets for the next day, he said. Gentile said the film, though, seemed fated to be finished. No matter what was in our way we kept going, he said. Shadow Pleasures has been doing well on the festival circuit, and was nominated for four Gemini Awards, picking up one for Art Direction, the only Golden Sheaf to elude the film, that award going to Mark Gabriel of Yellow Bird.

Gentile said winning awards such as those in Mystery Man art a discovery wealthy patrons would have displayed in their salons. The exhibition, which opened Sunday and runs to Sept. 5, is a significant coup for the National Gallery as Ottawa remains the sole international venue for an exhibition that was four years in the making. Extracting million-dollar masterpieces from galleries around the world was a huge undertaking, says Franklin, who is also deputy director of the National Gallery. But the exhibitions strong scholarly approach won over important international galleries, such as Florences prestigious Galleria Palantina, located in the Palazzo Pitti.

Like the more famous UfTizi Gallery, its bombarded with requests for loans. We were very happy to lend in this case because it is a scientific exhibition where our works will be discussed and looked at in a context, says Serena Padovani, director of the Galleria Palantina It has lent the National Gallery several valuable pieces including works by Andrea del Sarto and Ri-dolfo Ghirlandaio. It will help bring the historical art research together and move forward It helps enrich our own paintings," said Padovani, in Ottawa for the exhibition opening. OTTAWA (CP) The art world is of million-dollar mysteries and solving one helped the chief curator of the National Gallery of Canada bag a Renaissance sketch that has become a focal point for a major new exhibitioa David Franklin didnt think the beautifully sketched figure of a heavily muscled, naked male was actually created by Michelangelo as a draft of biblical Adam for his Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. Franklins scholarly sleuthing eventually proved its provenance a young Tuscan artist named Jacopo da Pontormo, who was closely influenced by Michelangelo.

And it led the Ottawa-based gallery to acquire the work, now known as Reclining Male Nude. Its among more than 120 major works comprising an exhibit called Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence. Contemporaries and bitter rivals, the two bad boys of the Renaissance drove a revolution in 16th-century Italian art a passionate movement that Franklin captures through works by the legions of artists they influenced. The show isnt so much about Leonardo and Michelangelo themselves, or their great and often massive works. Rather, it traces their influence on others through the kind of smaller scale, homey art that MEAT LOAF ALBUM Sony label mistake costs $5M claimed the omission was a mistake that it was later corrected.

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