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The StarFhoenix Monday, June 3, 1991 Wins Golden Sheaf of Excellence, three other awards Island of Whales takes top Yorkton prize ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR PAT MACSYMIC Phone 654-8231 Fax 664-0437 MOVIES various categories, including first-ever awards for music videos, drama for broadcasters and documentary for broadcasters. Eight Golden Sheaf craft awards, a similar number of certificates of merit and six cash awards also were given out. The major winners were: Animation: Spider Junior High. ArtsEntertainment: Le Dortoir. Documentary for broadcasters: Between Two Worlds.

Documentary under 30 minutes: The Colors of My Father. Documentary over 30 minutes: Uranium. Drama for broadcasters: Le Ven-dredi de Jeanne Robinson. Drama under 30 minutes: Man Descending. Drama over 30 minutes: Nuits dAfrique.

Experimental: Did You Do The Napkin Tops? IndustrialPromotional Car Pool. InstructionalEducational: One Hit Leads to Another. There were no fights, juror and veteran film-maker Don Haig told a packed gala awards ceremony. Island of Whales, which took 22 people in seven boats one year to film, won four awards. It took the Golden Shetaf for best sci-encenature film, best sound and best original music score.

Le Dortoir, an adaptation of Quebec theatre director Gilles Maheus internationally acclaimed stage production, and Man Descending, a 22-minute comedy about a doomed relationship, took three awards each. In all, the annual celebration of Canadian productions under 60 minutes in length featured seven multiple winners after 40 jury awards and two special jury awards were handed out. But the night belonged to Island of Whales a production Darling praised as a film for Canadians. She said the relatively big-budget film wasnt easy to shoot. Of course, you cant order up whales.

Fourteen Golden Sheafs were given in By Bernard Pilon of The Regina Leader-Post YORKTON It was widely seen as a race between the worlds largest mammals and a decaying dormitory filled with dancers. And when the 27th running of the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival was history late Saturday night, the coveted Golden Sheaf Award of Excellence belonged to Island of Whales. This is the icing on the cake, this one, executive producer Gillian Darling said as she cradled the 10-kilogram brass sculpture sought by a record 440 entries. The festivals premier prize was one of four received by the $830,000 production, a look at the sophisticated lifestyle of whales around Vancouver Island. The 55-minute Island of Whales, narrated by actor Gregory Peck, was felt by many here to have been neck and neck with another crowd favorite, Le Dortoir, as the five-hour awards ceremony reached its peak.

But the festivals five-member jury wasnt similarly split. Music Video: Crash Test Dummies Supermans Song. Production for Children: Eddie and The Ecosaurus. ScienceNature: Island of Whales. Art direction: Marc-Andre Coulombe, Le Dortoir.

CinematographyVideography: John Walker, Leningradskaya: A Village in Southern Russia. Director: Catherine Martin, Nuits dAfrique. Editing: Roushell Goldstein, Welcome Home. Original music score: Bruce Ruddell, Island of Whales. Actor: Timm Zemanek, Man Descending.

Actress: Caroline Gillis, See Bob Run. Script: Neil Grieve, Man Descending. Sound: Ingrid Rosen, Island of Whales. Special jury awards: Le Dortoir and Beating the Racoon. Broadening support Page D8 CAPITOL THEATRE: Hudson Hawk, 7 and 9:10 p.m.

Soapdish, 7:05 and 9:15 p.m. What About Bob? 7:20 and 9:35 p.m. Wild Hearts Cant Be Broken, 7:25 p.m. Oscar, 9:30 p.m. MIDTOWN CINEMA: Thelma Louise, 7 and 9:30 p.m.

Switch, 7:15 and 9:45 p.m. PACIFIC CINEMA: Baekdraft, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Drop Dead Fred, 7:10 and 9:15 p.m. Madonna, Truth or Dare, 7:20 and 9:50 p.m. Only The Lonely, 7:30 and 9:45 p.m.

TOWNE CINEMA: Dances With Wolves, 8 p.m. FX 2, 7:10, 9:15 p.m. BROADWAY THEATRE: 7 p.m. Cyrano de Bergerac, 9 p.m. PLACE RIEL THEATRE: Dances With Wolves, 8 p.m.

SOUTHWINDS DRIVE-IN: A Kiss Before Dying, King Ralph, gates open at 8:30 p.m., first show at 9:15 p.m. SUNDOWN DRIVE-IN: Baekdraft, Hard Way, gates open at 8:30 p.m., first show at 9:15 p.m. Quebecois sexy videos dont play on anglo TV English Canada sexually uptight, Montreal directors, VJ agree ABOUT TOWN PIANO AWARDS: Cara Reimer of Saskatoon and John Guzik of Sonningdale are the winners of $300 awards in the Lyell Gustin Memorial Scholarship piano program open to high school students who are studying with a Saskatchewan Registered Music Teacher. This years competition involved students from War-man, Shellbrook, Springside, Melville, Sonning-dal and Saskatoon and as well as entries from Chinook and Cereal, Alta. Bill Moore of Regina was adjudicator.

THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON YORKTON Sensuous French-language music videos, including a recently banned Mitsou clip featuring partial nudity, dont travel well in English Canada, say two prominent Quebec directors and a former MuchMusic VJ. The reason? Anglophones are more sexually uptight, agree Dan Gallagher (who left MuchMusic on Thursday) and Montreal based directors Lyne Charle-bois and Alain Desrochers. I can tell the difference (between French and English videos) with the sound off, Gallagher said. (Anglophones are) conservative, over-taxed Canadians. Ive said it all, there, he said.

Were not in Quebec. Theyre not afraid of that (sexy image). Gallagher, in Yorkton to chair a workshop on music videos part of the 27th Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival said in an interview different sensitivities towards sex is to blame. Its not so much our viewers as their parents. Theyre the ones who phone.

Desrochers the man behind Mitsou Dis moi, dis mois outlawed on MuchMusic for continually featuring a muscular mans bare buttocks and a brief flash of a breast told the workshop its odd that physical assaults are fine, but nudity isnt. They MuchMusic) play a lot of videos with violence. But a human body Desrochers said, with a gesture of mock shock. I think its OK to show people as they are, as they watch themselves in the shower. Charlebois, a director with 13 videos to her credit the best known of which has Marjo sensually smoking a cigarette in her hit Je sais, je sais credited the separate markets for French and English videos as being behind their differences.

leant fondle it anymore, Ed -S' The fods are everywhere in the Ki tchen running on the floor, across the counter, behind fridge, under the ifcwe In a moment. I'm just Smashing them myself. S-P File Photo Dan Gallagher can tell French from English videos with the sound off in the whole way its made, said Gallagher. I think part of the charm is we dont understand it. Im seeing only beautiful images.

Desrochers said he, too, can instantly tell French and English videos apart only to waffle on what those differences were. Its like: Whats the difference in the music, in French and English music? Universal, however, is the grudging admission that commercials for short works of art. Thats the reality. records. The more more videos can said.

Its up to the videos are mini-ads gems, he said. Its up to yourself is blatant commercialism a beautiful little videos are as much record companies as You have to sell records are sold, the be made, Gallagher viewer to identity which and which are creative (to decide) which and which is film. PILON Quebec videos cater to a more-liberal French and European audience, while products out of Toronto and Vancouver aim for play in a puritan United States, she said. Its the image. You will never see a naked girl (in English videos)," she said.

Gallagher said French videos which account for 10 per cent of Mu-chMusics lineup are more visually stylistic than anglophone creations. I think its just in the presentation, Saturday mornings in cockroach households Coalition fights for pay equity legislation in Sask, gests that by working at a paid job, most married women are replacing the losses to inflation and taxes. This permits a slight increase in the average familys income not the provision of luxury items. In these recessionary times, when the priority in the province is scrounging cash for farm aid, can we afford pay equity? The coalitions stand is that the government has a moral duty to help women combat gender-biased discrimination. If that and our appalling child poverty rate werent enough, there are solid arguments that paying women better would actually stimulate the economy by giving them more purchasing power.

Apart from this direct result, there would be positive spin-offs: reductions in welfare and health-care spending; and lower rates of crime, domestic violence and suicide all of which are linked to poverty. The fact is, we can no longer afford pay inequity. cations in Canada, women work in only 20. Theyre clustered in the clerical, sales and service areas, conforming to the traditional notions of woman as caretaker. These womens jobs have been undervalued.

As an example, Jacquie Griffiths, recording secretary for the coalition, cites her workplace, the University of Saskatchewan. At the entry level, female clerk-stenos there earn $223 less per month than males doing comparable entry-level work as caretakers or truck drivers. One of the arguments to downplay (the need for) pay equity is that women should re-educate and move into mens jobs, she- says. Were proud of what we do, but we want to be paid to do it. While most women work for peanuts, theyre not in it for a lark.

Canadian Families, a recent publication of the Vanier Institute of the Family, stresses that one income can no longer sustain a family. It says the correlation between the overall Canadian average income and the two-earner average income sug-. numerous individuals. Theres a wide-spread belief that women have already won economic equality. Granted, equal pay for equal work laws have existed for 20 years.

If they were adequate, Canadian women would not be earning, on average, a measly 66 cents compared to every $1 earned by men. The laws are full of loop-holes, Stadnyk explains. In this province, its only illegal to pay a woman worker less than a man doing the same or similar work. That leaves out all-female workplaces such as day cares and libraries." Another difficulty is that the law is complaint-based. Because even the less desirable, low-paying, dead-end jobs are in short supply, many women are reluctant to lodge complaints.

Society has encouraged women to enter a narrow range of jobs ones where poor pay and benefits are what offset by flexibility. Women want to be able to interrupt their work-lives to accommodate childrearing. Stadnyk notes that of 500 job classifi Its no coincidence that Saskatchewan, one of only two provinces without pay equity legislation, also has, per capita, more women living in poverty than any other province. While female participation in Saskatchewans labor force has increased more than 11 per cent since 1979, Statistics Canada figures indicate the majority of those living in poverty are women. Seventy per cent of all minimum-wage earners in Saskatchewan are women, and nearly half of female-headed families are low-income.

When women are economically disadvantaged, their children suffer. Newfoundland is the only province with a higher rate of child poverty than ours, according to the Saskatchewan Action Committee on the Status of Women. The recently formed Pay Equity Coalition of Saskatchewan (PECS) is working to end this systemic discrimination. With an election in the offing, the coalition is lobbying all political parties to ensure that whoever forms the next government will legislate equal pay for work of equal value. We want to break the poverty cycle, and paying women decent wages will certainly address that, says Carol Stadnyk, whos been seconded for a few months from her work as a field representative with CUPE to co-ordinate the coalition.

In addition to CUPE, the coalition has support from the Saskatchewan Federation of Labor, the Action Committee on the Status of Women, the Saskatchewan Association of Women and the Law, and AyuaV For the latest on how Saskatchewan rates leaders, parties and issues in this election year, see complete results of a CFQC TVStar-PhoenU Angus Reid poll starting in Wednesdays paper. The StarFhoenix.