Life Times Nine (1973)

Directed by

Paul Shapiro

Country

Canada

Runtime

15 min

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Nine teenagers each direct their own short film about what life means to them. The segments are combined into a single movie that shows different personal views on living.

student-madebriefreflectiveordinarycollaborativehopefulearnestvaried

What happens

Life Times Nine is a Canadian short film, which was released in 1973. Produced by Insight Productions in conjunction with a group of nine students from Toronto, Ontario's SEED Alternative School, the film's concept was for each student to produce and direct their own short film on the concept of life. The filmmakers were Paul Shapiro, Melissa Franklin, Robi Blumenstein, Jordon Hale, Ricky Clark, Celia Merkur, Kimmie Jensen, Andy File and Marilyn Becker. The film received an Academy Award nomination for the Best Live Action Short Film in 1974. The federal government of Canada provided the company with a $5,000 grant to ensure that all nine of the student directors were able to travel to Los Angeles to attend the ceremony. Their trip included an invitation from Mel Brooks to visit the set of Young Frankenstein. A journalist also mistook producer John Watson for Paul McCartney and begged him for an interview. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Come on Children (1973)
• The Invention of the Adolescent (1967)
• Coming Home (1973)
• Trois fois passera (1973)
• Les Canadiens sont là (1973)
• Trois exercices sur l’écran d’épingles d’Alexeieff (1974)
• Du coq à l'âne (1973)
• It's Fun to Sing (1948)