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highlights busy autumn

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begun, metabolisms arc [Eee of the rain and into a A. j-@ fou say conee fable -
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least mine is. But even ao # Onc film that I'm look- -
so, the pace at which an ing forward to seeing is
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the film industry flows MEU Retcalis = Hanging Garden, which
asn't really declined. opens at the Fifth
With 15 TV series on the go, threc ani- = Avenue Cinema today. The movie
mated series, not to mention the features tells the story of Sweet William, a
and TV movies currently in production, young gay man who returns to his
this is the busiest fall for production ever. rural Nova Scotian home to bury the
Some residents may be dreading more ghosts of his past. He arrives home
of those big white trucks invading their on the day of his sister’s wedding
neighborhoods, but for the 25,000 or so after a bitter 10-year absence.
production crew members and ‘hundreds of Thom Fitzgeraid, the first time
actors in B.C., it’s fabulous news. writer/director of the flim, won the
Also, estimates based on last year’s fig- Rogers Award for Best Canadian
ures from the B.C. Film Commission show Screenplay and the film garnered the
British Columbia will benefit with more title Most Popular Canadian Film at
than $537 million being injected directly this year’s Vancouver International
into the economy for 1997 from produc- Film Festival.
tion activity. Fitzgerald got the initial sup
to develop his film
his script was chosen from
approximately 160 scripts
in a competition to attend
a writer’s workshop at
Praxis Centre for
Screenwriters in spring
1995. Praxis is a non-prof-
it organization devoted to
supporting and stimulat-
ing the professional devel-
opment of Canadian
screenwriters and filmmak-
ers. Thom was matched
with an advisor, L.A.-
based writer John Frizzel.
Fitzgerald met Frizzet
here, in Vancouver, for an
intensive week to analyze,
; a? rewrite, rethink, and chart = REM . RE : : : Loh? ; wo ge
a course to move the pro- RITICS’ MPAA THEME VIOLENCE COAR
THOM Fitzgerald's The Hanging Garden won Most ject towards pre-juction, a THIS WEEK’S PICKS: AVERAGE RATING ° cANG.
Popular Canadian Film honors at the recert Vancouver See Cinema page 25 - 1. The Lost World (new) PG-13: adventure much mild

international Film Festival.

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9, Breakdown “thriller much — - fots
10. Anaconda adventure much

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