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The British Contingent in Montreal

2015; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 24; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/cjfs.24.2.96

2561-424X

Michael Chanan,

Communism, Protests, Social Movements

The British group at the Rencontres in Montréal in 1974 included three people who represented three poles of radical film culture in the U.K. at the time. Simon Hartog represented the radical wing within the film union, the Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians (ACTT), and was the researcher for the union’s report on nationalising the film industry. Nick Hart Williams represented The Other Cinema (TOC), an alternative distribution non-profit collective with a focus on political films from the Third World and political fare from Europe and the U.S. Gustav Lamche was a founding member of Cinema Action, a political collective that established particularly strong links within the trades union movement. The nationalisation plan was utopian and quietly dropped, but the growing band of independent political filmmakers, who were mostly outside the union, came together in 1976 to form the Independent Film-Makers' Association (IFA), which negotiated a Workshop Agreement with the ACTT and was recognised with slots on the new Channel Four when it started broadcasting in 1982.