Spartree - Wikipedia

Spartree
Directed by	Phillip Borsos
Produced by	Phillip Borsos Jim Makichuk
Cinematography	Tamara Sale Dave Geddes Ron Orieux Jeff Mart
Production company	Mercury Pictures
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada
Release date	1977 (1977)
Running time	15 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Spartree is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Phillip Borsos and released in 1977.^[1] A process documentary about loggers preparing a spar tree for use in a cable logging operation, it won the Canadian Film Award for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 27th Canadian Film Awards.^[2]

To achieve the film's climactic shot, Borsos assembled 12 different cameras around the forest floor.^[3]

In addition to its Canadian Film Award win for Best Theatrical Short Film, it won the awards for Best Cinematography in a Non-Feature and Best Sound in a Non-Feature.^[2]

The film was also later the subject of Spartree: Making the Film, a documentary about its creation.^[4]

References

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^ "Borsos, Phillip". The Canadian Encyclopedia, December 2, 2007.
^ ^a ^b 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.

External links

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Spartree at IMDb
Spartree at the Canadian Educational, Sponsored, and Industrial Film (CESIF) Project, Concordia University

v t e Films directed by Phillip Borsos
Cooperage (1976) Spartree (1977) Nails (1979) The Grey Fox (1982) The Mean Season (1985) One Magic Christmas (1985) Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1990) Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)

v t e Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short
Theatrical Short (1949–1996)	Who Will Teach Your Child? (1949) North Shore (1950) After Prison, What? (1951) Opera School (1952) L'Homme aux oiseaux (1953) Farewell Oak Street (1954) High Tide in Newfoundland¹ (1955) Gold (1956) The Sceptre and the Mace (1958) Money Minters, The Quest and The Tall Country (1959) Royal River (1960) Universe (1961) Morning on the Lièvre (1962) Nahanni (1963) Anniversary (1964) Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate and Ça n'est pas le temps des romans (1968) Vertige and At Home (1969) A Matter of Fat and Blake (1970) Don't Knock the Ox (1971) This Is a Photograph (1972) Goodbye Sousa (1973) Along These Lines (1975) Cooperage (1976) Spartree (1977) L'Affaire Bronswik (1978) Nails (1980) The Strongest Man in the World (1981) Zea (1982) Elvis Gratton (1983) Ted Baryluk's Grocery (1984) Charade (1985) George and Rosemary (1988) Saeed (1991) Arrowhead (1994) Les fleurs magiques (1995) The Home for Blind Women (1996)
Live Action Short (1986–present)	The Edit (1986) I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True (1987) The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989) In Search of the Last Good Man (1990) Battle of the Bulge (1992) The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1993) The Hangman's Bride (1997) When Ponds Freeze Over (1998) Moving Day (1999) Le P'tit Varius (2000) The Heart of the World (2001) I Shout Love (2002) Noël Blank (2003) Capacité 11 personnes (2004) Milo 55160 (2005) Le rouge au sol (2006) Après tout (2007) Next Floor (2008) Danse Macabre (2009) Savage (2010) Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011) Throat Song (2012) Noah (2013) Hole (2014) She Stoops to Conquer (2015) Mutants (2016) Fluffy (2017) Fauve (2018) Pick (2019) Black Bodies (2020) Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night (2021) Simo (2022) Motherland (2023)
Animated Short (1968–present)	Un enfant...un pays¹ (1968) Walking (1969) To See or Not to See (1970) Evolution (1971) Dans la vie... (1972) The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973) The Owl Who Married a Goose (1975) The Street (1976) Spinnolio (1977) Afterlife (1978) Every Child (1980) The Big Snit (1986) Get a Job (1987) The Cat Came Back (1989) Juke-Bar (1990) Strings (1992) Pearl's Diner (1993) La vieille dame et les pigeons (1997) Bingo (1998) When the Day Breaks (1999) Village of Idiots (2000) The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2001) The Hungry Squid (2002) Falling in Love Again (2003) Ryan (2004) cNote (2005) The Danish Poet (2006) Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) Isabelle au bois dormant (2008) Runaway (2009) Lipsett Diaries (2010) Romance (2011) Paula (2012) Subconscious Password (2013) Me and My Moulton (2014) The Ballad of Immortal Joe (2015) Blind Vaysha (2016) The Tesla World Light (2017) Animal Behaviour (2018) Giant Bear (2019) Hot Flash (2020) Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021) The Flying Sailor (2022) Where Rabbits Come From (2023)
¹ These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.

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