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L C | THE OAKVILLE BEAVER . Frida FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1993 PAGE 9 Musical review ...pg. 13 Presented by The Oakville Beaver Christian Fennell:;: A man with a mission By KATHY YANCHUS Oakville Beaver Staff Christian Fennell is a man with a mission. Having landed the confidence of Canadian author Jack Hodgins to coâ€"script his book, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, Fennell is hopâ€" ing that by next summer he‘ll be on Vancouver Island directing his first feature film. That has yet to be decided however, and Fennell, owner of Christian Fennell Films Inc., has many steps to complete before he can haul cast and crew to the far western edge of this land. First he has yet to complete the first draft, which he hopes to accomplish early in September, and then in accordance with distriâ€" bution agreements he has with funding agenâ€" cies, he must acquire a coâ€"producâ€" er and/or executive producer, a distributor and draw up a budget for the script if he wishes to take the project to completion Fennell is hopeful he will be able to do this having "worked in specific areas to hone specific skills" over the past several years with this dream in mind. He began building his foundation of industry knowledge with his job | as assistant to the executive proâ€" ducer of Cineservice Limited in | Toronto after his graduation with | an Honors BA from Queen‘s University in Canadian Studies "It‘s a very ambitious project. Most Canadian filmmakers would start, sensibly start, with a smaller scale picture. This one has 30 or 40 speaking parts," says Fennell. His first objective is to make this film and he will exhaust all possiblities to turn that into a reality, but he is keeping his options open. Fennell has complete faith in his ability to direct and the people he would take on board. "I believe in tight knit filmmaking..in takâ€" ing x number of dollars and making it look like five times x number of dollars. I don‘t believe in letting it become a film industry thing." Fennell has already approached high profile actors and everywhere he turns, the interest in the film is high, both here and in the US. Interestingly enough, Fennell is again purâ€" suing an island story, his first adventure in celâ€" luloid the adaptation of a Canadian short story set in Newfoundland. As he did with Alistair McLeod‘s The Lost Salt Gift of Blood â€" which was picked up by CBC and Family Channel â€" he would gamer as many of the cast and crew as possible from the area to maintain the integrity of the film. Finding these locales "they‘re not even regional but isolated" Fennell finds it easy to begin "with a seed of reality and move into fantasy." The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne â€" workâ€" ing title The Ragged Green Edge â€" is not a proâ€" tagonist/antagonist story structure, explains Fennell. "We‘re actually making the setting the main character," he says. The book is now nine years old and there have been "big narrative shifts" but the spirit of the piece has been kept intact, says Fennell. Although he has "indicators‘ of response to Jhis script he can‘t get the imperative feedback he needs to "clear up the fog" about whose directorial hands the script will land in until the first draft is completed. So, from 6 a.m. to midâ€"afternoon in his west Oakville home, Fennell submerges himâ€" self in the powerful story with the vivid charâ€" acters he‘s come to know so well. He breaks to reâ€"group, and after dinner, peruses the work he‘s accomplished that day, a routine that preâ€" cludes much leisure time. "It is my life," says Fennell. While working on The Resurrection, Fennell is also simultaneously developing a ‘Glen Abbeyâ€"scape‘ a departure from artist‘s traditional landscape pieces By KATHY YANCHUS Oakville Beaver Staff Have you ever tried to imagine yourself walking confidently up the 18th fairway at Glen Abbey, throngs of golfing fans wildly applauding the brilliant shot that just secured the Canadian Open championship for you? It‘s not hard to do while staring at Renate Wilson‘s beautiful watercolor of Glen Abbey‘s final hole, a familiar setting which will be splashed across TV screens once again next week as the 84th annual Canadian Open is held. The Oakville painter and owner of Glen Abbey Framing and Fine Art, purposely left out spectators and golfers so anyone could imagâ€" ine themselves in the painting, and in the spotâ€" light. Familiar with the game of golf although not an avid player, Wilson was requested to create the painting by linksters who loved the game and it‘s now available as a limited edition print. The piece is a slight departure from the floâ€" rals and traditional landscapes for which she is known. "I specialize in florals," says Wilson wavâ€" ing her hand modestly at her beautifullyâ€"deliâ€" cate watercolors which adom the walls of her shop, tucked into the Oakville Town Centre II mall. But she is also known for her landscapes, inspired once by southerm Alberta and now by southem Ontario, the areas of Caledon and the Niagara Escarpment in particular. Her gallery provides her with exhibit space not only for her own work but that of other local artists including Alan Kingsland, Roxann Vivian Smith, Bev Hagan and Joan Spavins as well as others.The space also displays her awardâ€"winning framing techniques which she developed as a gallery owner in Lethbridge Alberta. "Out west is a great area for needlework. Sixty per cent of the framing we did was needleâ€" work." Wilson became an expert in the artform, a time consuming process which involves the deliâ€" cate stretching of the "flexible" needlework to position it firmly and correctly within the mat and frame. At the same time, she developed her unique multiâ€"sided frames. We specialize in the unique and the difficult. There‘s no job we haven‘t been able to do," she says. Beginning this fall, Wilson hopes to launch a schedule of gallery shows and bring in more artists to the gallery, those whose work "fits in to the gallery, which is kind of traditional in nature.The focus is mostly on original art, with a reasonable price range...we try to keep it under $1,000" She spends six days a week in her framing shop, but always manages to set aside a couple of hours each day to paint.Along with studies at the Ontario College of Art and McMaster University, she taught art privately and in the public school system and developed extraâ€"curricuâ€" lar art programs for the Peel Board of Education before leaving it behind to paint fulltime and operate her framing businesses. script for Leon Rook‘s book A Good Baby, a project he also hopes to direct. "Too much is never enough. It keeps me hopping. It keeps me poor and it keeps me a little bit honest, I hope." "It‘s a great time to be an independent filmâ€" maker in Canada. There‘s so much to be done in Canadian film." This Coming tR oo 0 l DAILY LUNCH 425 SPECIALS $299 o MONDAY _ Tall Boys Only Gitone Double TUESDAY Toumament ($10 Entry) Double Elimination Pool 0 WEDNESDAY Toumamen s pm * Entry) s THURSDAY _ Ladies Night Friday Saturday: Blue Jay Draw â€" e 20 Blue Jay Tickets to be given away. _