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CBC Film Festival

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Genre
  
feature film

Original language(s)
  
English

Producer(s)
  
Don Elder

First episode date
  
5 June 1979

Network
  
CBC Television

Language
  
English

Country of origin
  
Canada

No. of seasons
  
1

Running time
  
120 minutes

Final episode date
  
13 September 1980

Number of seasons
  
1

CBC Film Festival is a Canadian feature film television series which aired on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980.

Contents

Premise

Feature films, nearly all Canadian, were featured in this series. In the initial 1979 season, the remainder of the time slot after a film sometimes featured interviews with non-Canadian directors John Cromwell, George Cukor, Samuel Fuller, John Schlesinger, Martin Scorsese, Donald Siegel and John Sturges.

Scheduling

This series appeared in a two-hour time slot, initially on Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 5 June to 8 July 1979, then on Saturdays at 9:00 p.m.from 7 July to 22 September 1979, then a final run in the same time slot the following year, 7 June to 13 September 1980.

Episodes

1979
  • The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
  • Second Wind
  • The Clown Murders
  • Fighting Men
  • Inside Out
  • Sudden Fury
  • Goldenrod
  • One Night Stand
  • J.A. Martin Photographer
  • Rabu Fere
  • The Far Shore
  • One Man
  • Lies My Father Told Me
  • Love at First Sight
  • Drying Up The Streets
  • Who Has Seen The Wind?
  • 1980
  • Kamouraska
  • Second Wind
  • Who Has Seen The Wind?
  • Skip Tracer
  • Lions For Breakfast
  • Deadly Harvest
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (American adaptation by Joseph Strick)
  • References

    CBC Film Festival Wikipedia