Boxoffice-September.04.1978

SFFeslCompelition,
TV Awards Revealed
SAN FRANC ii>CO— Goodnight Mi>s
-.un." a sensitive profile of struggling box-
^ in downtown Los Angeles, has won the
Cioldcn Gate Award for first prize in the
f-ilm as Communication competition of the
22nd annual San Francisco International
Film Festival. The film was made by August
Cinquegrana of San Francisco. The
Silver Award for second prize was won by
Robin Lehman of New York City for
"Manimals," an eloquent plea for the right
of exotic animals to remain in their natural
habitat. The Bronze Award goes to Will
Vinton and Susan Shadburne of Portland
for Claymation." a film about the art of
clay animation filmmaking.
Best of Category awards were given as
follows: -The Best 1 Can." Amram Nowak
Associates, New York (Public Service);
•"Maria Montessori: Follow the Child." Joseph
DeFrancesco and Douglas Clark. Sausalito.
Calif. (Essays); "South Beach." Cinda
Firestone. New York (Political); "Turkiye."
Claude Leiouch. France (Travel);
•You Sell Shoes." Kit Jones and Martin
Wolff. Brainstorm Productions. New York
(Training); ••Proudfoot's Last Stand," Barclays
Bank. England (Public Relations);
Have a Healthy Baby: Pregnancy,"
Churchill Films. Los Angeles (Medical and
Health); '•Cooperation—Obliged to Take
Action," Leonaris-Film. West Germany
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-Four Women Artists."
Bill Ferris and Judy Peiser. Center for
Suthern Folklore, Memphis (Profiles);
•Slowly the Singing Began, " Media Guild,
Solana Beach, Calif. (Classroom Instructional),
and ••The Bible Witnesses: The
Judes of Djerba," Socicte Francaisc de
Production, Paris (Sociological).
Twenty-one honorable mentions were
given to runners-up in the competition,
which comprised hundreds of films from
over the world.
all
Free ScreeninKs Planned
The top three films and the Besi-of-Category
winners will be screened for the public
at no admission charge during the festival,
which runs Octob.'r 4 to \5 at the Palace
of Fine Arts Theatre and the Castro
Theatre. The program will be announced
in mid-September and boxoffices open Monday
(25).
The Golden Gate Awards for excellence
in television films also were announced.
'Holocaust' Series Wins
••Holocaust," the monumental limited
series about Nazi Germany, was named best
network entertainment program, the award
going to NBC. The prize tor network documentary
was won by ABC for ••Youth Terror:
The View From Behind the Gun." produced
by Helen Whitney.
"Old Age: Do Not Go Gentle," a sensitive
investigation of the plight of the elderly
in America and in Europe, produced by
Evan White. KGO-TV. San Francisco, was
named best local station documentary. The
award for best local station news miniseries
went to ••A Race With Death," about
the shock trauma unit at the University
of Maryland hospital, written and directed
by Paul Fine, WJLA-TV, Washington, D.C.
Golden Gate Award
WK and the Tomorrow Entertainment
Co. won the Ciolden Ciate .'\ward for children's
programming for "Roll of Thunder.
Hear My Cry,^" produced hy Jean .'Nnne
Moore.
Awards were given Special Jury to
Mysterious Castles of Clay," Alan Root,
NBC, and to "Of Race and Blood," Jim
Connolly. KRMA-TV, Denver.
The awards will be presented at a special
ceiemony during the film festival.
Marcia Rodd and Christopher Walken
have been signed for United Artists' "Last
Embrace."
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Rights to Anchorage CATV
Are Sought by VISIONS
LOS ANGELES—VISIONS, the nincmonth-old
multipoint distiibution service
operation in .Anchorage. .Ak., in a joint venture
with Daniels & Associates of Denver.
filed with the Alaska Public Utilities Commission
for authority to construct a CATV
system in Anchorage. To date, .Anchorage
Cable Television of Juneau, .Ak., and Liberty
Communications of Portland also have
filed for the same authority.
Under the name MultiVisions, the Anchorage
MDS operator's service proposes
two tiers of basic CATV service, a 12-channel
economy package and a 25-channel expanded
package, along with four tiers of
pay programing. VISIONS' existing .MDS
service will be offered as one of the pay
tiers.
"Cable is the logical extension of our
present multi-faceted MDS service." said
VISIONS chairman, Robert Uchitel. "While
we will be competing for the right to cable
Anchorage, we think the presence of our
MDS service in over 6,800 single family
homes in the community affords a basis for
evaluation that the other applicants cannot
offer. In other words, our past performance
in terms of the quality of our ser%ice and
programing can speak for itself and we
intL-nd to be as innovative on our proposed
CATV system as we have been on our
MDS service, " Uchitel added.
Public hearings on the competing Anchorage
CATV applications are expected to take
place this fall with a decision not anticipated
until early 1979.
Low-Flying Film 'Copter
Causes Buzz in Tucson
ILCSON— .A helicopter cair>ing a camera
crew from Jeffries Films International
of Los Angeles, filming birdseye views of
downtown Tucson in mid-.Augusi, allegedly
buzzed buildings at the 6-story level, according
to complaints filed with the F.A.A.
The pilot, from Scottsdale, also allegedly
buzzed buildings in Phoenix.
.Approximately 12 Tucstm residents lodged
complaints. Witnesses estimated the
whirlybird was doing 70 to SO mph. Photographs
accompanied the letter of complaint.
The chopper was being used to fimi foolage
for use in TV commercials for Arizona
Gov. Bruce Babbitt's election campaign.
Evaluating the requirements involved, an
FAA spokesman from .Scottsdale stated that
"it's possible that flying at the sixth-story
level could create a hazard, and that's
the purpose of our investigation." He .ulded
that "the helicopter is a tremendous machine
with super capability, and the pilot is
well qualified."
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