At Home (film)

Last updated
At Home
Directed by Martin Lavut
Written byMartin Lavut
Adrienne Horswill
StarringMartin Lavut
Adrienne Horswill
Edited byPeter Rowe
Music byZalman Yanowsky
Production
company
Allan King Associates
Distributed byCanadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

At Home is a 1968 Canadian short documentary film directed by Martin Lavut. [1] The film documents Lavut's home life, including his relationship with his girlfriend Adrienne Horswill. [1] The film was originally commissioned by CBC Television, but the network declined to air the finished product. [2]

The film won the award for Best Canadian Film at the Vancouver International Film Festival, [3] and the Canadian Film Award for Best Film Under 30 Minutes at the 21st Canadian Film Awards in 1969. [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steve Martin</span> American comedian, actor, musician and writer (born 1945)

Stephen Glenn Martin is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and musician. Known for his work in comedy films, television, and recording, he has received many accolades, including five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award and an Honorary Academy Award, in addition to nominations for two Tony Awards. He also received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2005, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, and an AFI Life Achievement Award in 2015. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comics. The Guardian named him one of the best actors never to have received an Academy Award nomination.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Martin Short</span> Canadian-American comedian and actor (born 1950)

Martin Hayter Short is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, and writer. Short is known as an energetic comedian who gained prominence for his roles in sketch comedy. He has also acted in numerous films and television shows. He has received various awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. Short was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Christopher Plummer</span> Canadian actor (1929–2021)

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer was a Canadian actor. His career spanned seven decades, gaining him recognition for his performances in film, stage, and television. His accolades included an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, making him the only Canadian recipient of the "Triple Crown of Acting". He also received a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jackie Burroughs</span> Canadian actress (1939–2010)

Jacqueline Burroughs was a British-born Canadian actress. Burroughs starred in over 100 films and television shows over her career, including Heavy Metal, The Care Bears Movie, The Grey Fox, and Anne of Green Gables, and was best known for her role as Hetty King in the TV series Road to Avonlea.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hal B. Wallis</span> American film producer

Harold B. Wallis was an American film producer. He is best known for producing Casablanca (1942), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), and True Grit (1969), along with many other major films for Warner Bros. featuring such film stars as Humphrey Bogart, John Wayne, Bette Davis, and Errol Flynn. As a producer, he received 19 nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Martin Lavut was a Canadian filmmaker born in Montreal, Quebec. He wrote and directed numerous theatrical and television dramas, and documentary films. Among his dramas are the films Certain Practices, War Brides, Charlie Grant's War and The Marriage Bed. His documentaries include At Home, Without a Hobby It’s No Life, Orillia, and After Darwin. In 2006, he directed Remembering Arthur, a biography of filmmaker Arthur Lipsett.

<i>A Cosmic Christmas</i> 1977 animated television special directed by Clive A. Smith

A Cosmic Christmas is a 1977 American-Canadian Christmas animated television special, premiering on CBC in Canada and in syndication in the United States on 4 December 1977. A Cosmic Christmas is the first special in the 1977 to 1980 series of television specials produced by Nelvana Ltd. and was also the first animated production from the studio. It premiered on 4 December 1977 on CBC Television. It was submitted for the Best Animated Short Academy Award.

<i>Walking</i> (1968 film) 1968 Canadian film

Walking is a 1968 Canadian animated short film directed and produced by Ryan Larkin for the National Film Board of Canada, composed of animated vignettes of how different people walk.

Remembering Arthur is a 2006 documentary film about collage filmmaker Arthur Lipsett that debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival. It is directed by Lipsett's close friend Martin Lavut and takes a personal approach to the story of his life through interviews with family, friends and colleagues. The film was produced by Public Pictures in association with the National Film Board of Canada, Bravo! and TVOntario.

Jean Beaudin was a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He directed 20 films since 1969. His film J.A. Martin Photographer, was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival, where Monique Mercure won the award for Best Actress. The film also won best Film, he won best Director, and Mercure won best Actress awards at the 1977 Canadian Film Awards. He was nominated for the Genie Award for Best Achievement in Direction in 1986, 1992 and 2003 for his films The Alley Cat , Being at Home with Claude and The Collector , respectively.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1979 Toronto International Film Festival</span>

The 4th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1979. Due to overcrowding in the prior year, the Gala presentations were moved from the 700-seat Towne Cinema to the 1,600-seat Elgin Theatre. The People's Choice Award was awarded to Best Boy by Ira Wohl, which later won Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1988 Toronto International Film Festival</span>

The 13th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 8 and September 17, 1988. Midnight Madness programme was introduced at the festival. The festival screened more than 300 films from all over the world. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Pedro Almodóvar won the People's Choice Award at the festival, which later nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at Academy Award.

<i>Intergalactic Thanksgiving</i> 1979 Canadian animated TV special

Intergalactic Thanksgiving, sometimes known as Please Don't Eat The Planet, is a 1979 Canadian Thanksgiving animated television special that premiered on CBC and in the United States in syndication on November 22, 1979. Intergalactic Thanksgiving was the fourth television special produced by Nelvana in their 1977 to 1980 series of specials, A Cosmic Christmas, The Devil and Daniel Mouse and Romie-0 and Julie-8, all premiering in 1977, 1978 and 1979.

Alexander Pavlovich Lavut was a mathematician, dissident and a key figure in the civil rights movement in the Soviet Union.

<i>Hole</i> (film) 2014 Canadian film

Hole is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Martin Edralin and released in 2014.

The 21st Canadian Film Awards were held on October 4, 1969 to honour achievements in Canadian film. The ceremony, attended by 1,200 people, was hosted by broadcaster Fred Davis.

The Wendy Michener Award was a Canadian film award, presented by the Canadian Film Awards from 1969 to 1978 as a special achievement award for outstanding artistic achievements in film.

War Brides is a Canadian television film, directed by Martin Lavut and broadcast by CBC Television in 1980. The film centres on four women, three from the United Kingdom and one from Germany, who come to Canada as war brides of Canadian soldiers after the end of World War II.

Charlie Grant's War is a Canadian television film, directed by Martin Lavut and broadcast by CBC Television in 1985. Set during World War II, the film stars R. H. Thomson as Charlie Grant, a Canadian activist and humanitarian who was living in Austria at the time of the war, and helped to smuggle over 600 Jews out of the country for their safety.

Gilles Gascon was a Canadian cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. He was most noted for his work on Jacques Giraldeau's 1966 documentary film Element 3 , for which he won the Canadian Film Award for Best Colour Cinematography at the 19th Canadian Film Awards in 1967.

References

  1. 1 2 Larry Zolf, "Brief, bore and bare". Maclean's , October 1, 1969.
  2. "Canada's Martin Lavut film-makers' new breed". Windsor Star , June 26, 1970.
  3. "The VIFF Awards". The Province , June 16, 1969.
  4. Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN   0-7737-3238-1. pp. 85-87.