CBC Film Festival


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

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. 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.

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