Ida Makes a Movie (1979)

The National Film Board of Canada is sponsoring a movie festival. Ida Lucas is a nine year old girl who decides to make a movie, about the environment (ie garbage), and enter it into the festival. The judges, thinking the film is about war, accept Ida's film into the festival finals. Should she tell them it's about garbage?

Date of release
1979-09-12
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
23m
Genres
Family
Director
Kit Hood, Linda Schuyler

Casting

Interesting facts

Ida Makes a Movie is a 1979 Canadian after school special short film produced by Kit Hood and Linda Schuyler for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, who aired the film on September 12, 1979. The story was adapted from the 1974 children's picture book Ida Makes a Movie, which was written by Kay Chorao. Schuyler, a former media teacher at Earl Grey Senior Public School, was introduced to the book via the school's librarian, and purchased the film rights from Chorao for $200.

Production

Linda Schuyler, a media teacher at Earl Grey Senior Public School, and Kit Hood, a commercial editor, founded Playing With Time in 1976. In 1979, Schuyler received a copy of the children's book Ida Makes a Movie, written by Kay Chorao, when she requested Earl Grey librarian Bruce Mackey to acquire several books about filmmaking. Mackey was unaware that it was children's fiction about cats, and saw little use of it.

Before leaving, Schuyler sought legal advice from Stephen Stohn, a young entertainment lawyer who had recently graduated from law school, and who would eventually become her producing partner and husband. Stohn recalled in his 2018 memoir Whatever It Takes that he advised Schuyler that being out of print, buying the rights to the book on her own would be "relatively straightforward", and that involving lawyers would make the process "unnecessaril…

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