Ida Makes a Movie (1979)
23m
Running Time
September 12, 1979Release Date
Ida Makes a Movie (1979)
23m
Running Time
September 12, 1979Release Date
Plot.
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?
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Zoe Newman
Ida Lucas
Dawn Harrison
Cookie
Allan Meiusi
Fred Lucas
Lewis Manne
Camera Store Clerk (uncredited)
Elwy Yost
Mr. Druffle
Edna Sternbach
Ida’s Mom (uncredited)
Kit Hood
Director
Linda Schuyler
Director
Details.
Wiki.
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 December 8, 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.
The film led to a series of further short films that aired on the CBC, which later developed into The Kids of Degrassi Street, the first series in the Degrassi teen drama franchise.