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- 1 2 Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1. pp. 117-119.
- ↑ "Clear and independent". Cinema Canada , August 1979.
- ↑ William Beard and Jerry White, North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980. University of Alberta, 2002. ISBN 9780888643902. Chapter "Directed by Phillip Borsos" by Blaine Allan, pp. 106-121.
