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	Ontario Film Review Board - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ontario Film Review Board is an agency of the government of the Canadian province of Ontario.
		The board uses the following motion picture rating system for theatrical releases in the province under the Theatres Act:
		Adult Accompaniment - Film restricted to persons 14 years of age or older or to persons younger than 14 years of age who are accompanied by an adult.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ontario_Film_Review_Board (264 words)

	OFRB Creates New Category
		A new category is being added to the Ontario system of classifying films, the first change in the system in 15 years.
		The Ontario Film Review Board plans to split the Adult Accompaniment category into two parts: 14A, which means children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult, and 18A, which means those younger than 18 must see it with an adult.
		Ontario's current system of film classification, developed in the 1980s, now has four categories: Family (appropriate for viewing by a person of any age), Parental Guidance (parents should exercise discretion in permitting a child to view the film), Adult Accompaniment and Restricted (film restricted to persons 18 years of age or older).
	www.fradical.com /ontario_film_review_board_adds_new_category.htm (543 words)

	Film Classification Act, 2005 - O. Reg. 452/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		(a) resubmit the film to the Film Board;
		A licensee who exhibits a film shall ensure that the certificate of classification for the film issued under subsection 4 (1) or a copy of the certificate issued under subsection 4 (3) is kept with the film. O. Reg.
		The Film Board is designated to review a film to determine whether it is exempt from a provision of the Act or the regulations if the director is of the opinion that an exemption determination should be made. O. Reg.
	www.e-laws.gov.on.ca /DBLaws/Regs/English/050452_e.htm (5761 words)

	Playback - Articles - Court knocks down Ontario board
		Film distribution and exhibition are set to change in Ontario following a court ruling that has stripped the province of its power to ban movies.
		On April 30, the Ontario Superior Court struck down the provincial Theatres Act, ruling that the censorial powers it granted to the Ontario Film Review Board and to the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services violated freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
		All films must be screened by the OFRB before they may enter the province, a process known as prior restraint, but enforcing the system is handled by Consumer and Business Services.
	www.playbackmag.com /articles/magazine/20040524/orb.html (474 words)

	Ontario Limits Film Board's Powers - Hollywood North Report
		According to the Canadian Press, the Ontario Film Review Board will no longer have the power to arbitrarily censor films under new legislation introduced Thursday in response to a court ruling earlier this year.
		In April, the Ontario Superior Court ruled the board didn't have the constitutional right to ban films unless they're deemed obscene, and it struck down Ontario's movie rating system.
		The case centred on movies distributed by Glad Day Bookstore, which was convicted along with its owner in 2002 of distributing a gay porn film that hadn't been approved by the review board.
	www.hollywoodnorthreport.com /article.php?Article=748 (454 words)

	Canada: Film ban lifted in Ontario
		Fat Girl, a film banned last year by the Ontario Film Review Board because of a lengthy sex scene between a 15-year-old girl and an adult man, was approved for release on 3 January in a decision that the censors presented as signalling its newly progressive policies.
		The film tells the story of the sexual awakening of two sisters while on vacation in Italy and went on to be released in five Canadian states without challenge.
		However, in Ontario, policy guidelines stated that scenes in which characters under 18 appear "nude or partially nude in a sexually suggestive context" were unacceptable, and the board banned the film in 2002.
	www.indexonline.org /en/indexindex/articles/2003/1/film-ban-lifted-in-ontario.shtml (342 words)

	Fat Girl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fat Girl is a French 2001 film directed by Catherine Breillat staring Roxane Mesquida.
		The film was banned in Ontario by the Ontario Film Review Board in the fall of 2001 because the board objected to the film's representation of teenage sexuality.
		This ban was eventually overturned and the film played in several theatres in 2003.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fat_Girl (97 words)

	Eye Weekly - About a girl - 11.22.01
		For this outdated and arrogant institution to imply that the modest art film in question is pornographic, particularly at a time when the pornography of war in Afghanistan holds the attention of the rest of the world, is an embarrassment to Canada.
		Mary spends her days gleefully viewing film after pornographic film, snipping out anything that might be perceived as remotely offensive to anyone, until there is practically nothing left for the masses to watch.
		Ontario, of course, has a world-renowned history of film censorship dating back to the '70s, when such naughty European fare as Luna and The Tin Drum were forbidden from exhibition without substantial cuts.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_11.22.01/columns/feelings.html (748 words)

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		The Ontario Film Review Board banned this history of U.S. marijuana laws because it contains 20 seconds of archival footage showing rhesus monkeys and chimpanzees smoking dope in a lab experiment.
		Apparently this violates the Ontario Theatres Act, which forbids abuse of an animal in making a film, although the board showed no concern about mice falling off a table or fish swimming sideways in the same sequence (at least the simians seem to be enjoying themselves).
		A better example of animal abuse might be compelling a filmmaker to submit his work to censors or incarcerating untold thousands of kids for having harmless fun while hypocritical state agents and presidents show an almost total lack of interest in the truth or falsity of their own antidrug propaganda.
	onfilm.chicagoreader.com /movies/capsules/19054_GRASS.html (127 words)

	Video and Computer Game Update
		On March 7, 2005, the Ontario Film Review Board adopted the ESRB classifications.
		For more information about the classification of video and computer games or other films, consumers can contact the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services at 416-326-8555 or the Ontario Film Review Board at 416-314-3626 or toll-free at 1-800-268-6024 or visit the Ontario Film Review Board website at www.ofrb.gov.on.ca.
		The OFRB may discuss classification issues with the ESRB and may reclassify a video or computer game using Ontario’s film classification system if it believes that the game contains extreme content and is not appropriately classified for a young audience.
	www.ofrb.gov.on.ca /english/page19.htm (804 words)

	Cinematheque Ontario - About - General Policies
		This development is very much in keeping with the Toronto International Film Festival Group's ongoing commitment to youth education, and ultimately contributes to the aim of cultivating a new generation of film enthusiasts that recognizes and values the immense historical and cultural significance of the medium.
		Films which have been classified by the OFRB will have the corresponding rating, and content advisory, if applicable, noted at the end of their description.
		Films that have not been classified by the OFRB are restricted to those 18 years of age or older.
	www.cinemathequeontario.ca /generalpolicies.aspx (905 words)

	Freedom Party of Ontario (CANADA) - Freedom Flyer 22 - Dec 1992
		TORONTO (July, 1992) - In a written submission to the Ontario Law Reform Commission, Freedom Party responded to the issues being raised in a review of the Ontario Film Review Board, formerly known as the Ontario Board of Censors.
		The Commission's recommendation that the Ontario Film Review Board no longer have the power to censor film or video in Ontario is a welcome change of direction in terms of government powers to control expression.
		Even though a particular video title may have been "classified" by the new board, any copies of that title not purchased or rented in Ontario could be subject to charges by the government.
	www.freedomparty.on.ca /freedomflyer/ff22_05.htm (485 words)

	Movie Reviews
		This pot film avoids the didactism one expects from the anti-drug-war left.
		The film’s real treat, however, is historical gems such as these: During the Depression, only nine states acquiesced to the feds’ insistence that they criminalize marijuana.
		Given the film’s documentation of recent increases in marijuana-related arrests and imprisonments, the omission of Bill Clinton is striking.
	www.nationalreview.com /movies/movies060900.html (414 words)

	FILM-Fat-Girl, 1st Writethru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		TORONTO (CP) - The Ontario Film Review Board has decided the controversial French film Fat Girl is acceptable for the province's filmgoers after all.
		Fat Girl was screened initially at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, which is not subject to the review board's decisions under an earlier agreement.
		Review board chairman Bill Moody agrees, insisting that the change in ruling was the result of a new set of guidelines that considers a film's character and integrity.
	cp.org /premium/online/commercial/Entertainment/030129/e012928A.html (499 words)

	Public Appointments Secretariat, Ontario, Canada: Board Details
		Function: The mission of the Ontario Film Review Board is to classify film and video and to provide sufficient information for the public to make informed viewing choices.
		In its activities the board aims to reflect the standards of the diverse communities of Ontario.
		All film and video distributed or exhibited in Ontario (with some defined exceptions) must be reviewed by the Ontario Film Review Board under its mandate from the Film Classification Act of Ontario.
	www.pas.gov.on.ca /scripts/en/BoardDetails.asp?boardID=710 (187 words)

	Time to rejoice in Ontario! - dark discussion
		Earlier this week Ontario Attorney-General Michael Bryant made the historic announcement that his government would not appeal the landmark April 30 judgment by former Superior Court Justice Russell Juriansz declaring unconstitutional the requirement that all films and videos have to receive review-board approval before being shown in the province.
		At the same time, the film review board could arbitrarily decide that movies shown at film festivals and art galleries didn't require prescreening because audiences there were deemed somehow to be "more sophisticated" than the general public.
		The judge further noted that the guidelines used to judge films by the review board neither have statutory authority in Ontario's Theatres Act nor are approved or reviewed by the provincial government.
	www.darkdreams.org /dd_forum/showthread.php?t=6133 (1641 words)

	Ontario Film Classification
		Subject to certain exceptions, if a film or video is to be distributed or screened in Ontario, it must first be classified by the Ontario Film Review Board (OFRB).
		The OFRB also reviews and approves all motion-picture advertising, for example, ads in newspapers and posters.
		To help viewers make informed choices about films and videos, the Ontario Film Review Board may issue short information pieces, such as "not recommended for children," "coarse language," "violence," which must appear in the film's advertisements.
	www.media-awareness.ca /english/resources/ratings_classification_systems/film_classification/ont_film_classification.cfm (654 words)

	Public Appointments Secretariat, Ontario, Canada: General Information
		In fact, appointees to many of Ontario's agencies do not receive any payment for their services beyond, in some cases, the reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses.
		Ontario's agencies, boards and commissions are responsible for overseeing, managing and regulating a wide variety of important functions.
		The Standing Committee on Government Agencies reviews intended appointees to agencies, boards and commissions and of directors to corporations in which the Crown in right of Ontario is majority shareholder (excluding reappointments and appointments for a term of one year or less).
	www.pas.gov.on.ca /scripts/en/generalInfo.asp (1487 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Movies: Inside the Ont. Film Review Board
		We can't identify the film, but we can tell you what we learned about the process: That it's subjective but democratic, often clinical, and that nothing takes the steam out of a celluloid love scene like taking notes while trying to differentiate between implied and simulated sexual activity.
		The York students are quiet as the OFRB reviewers snap to action, scribbling notes at small desks equipped with dim table lamps.
		They observe that the nudity is non-sexual and shot at a distance, which means this film, for the time being, is still eligible for a G (general) rating.
	xjam.canoe.ca /Movies/2006/11/17/2391608-sun.html (1056 words)

	Court Revokes Ontario Film Board's Authority to Censor Pornographic Films
		The Review Board was sued by the Glad Day Bookstore in 2000 after the bookstore was charged for distributing an unapproved homosexual pornographic film imported from the U.S. Normally, all films must be submitted to the Review Board for rating.
		The Film Review Board still has the authority to rate films such as PG for parental guidance, or R for restricted to adults 18 years of age or older.
		According to the Globe and Mail, the Review Board censored 152 films in 2000, 146 of which were pornographic.
	www.lifesite.net /ldn/2004/may/04050306.html (446 words)

	Reel.com: Catherine Breillat
		Two years ago, her drama Romance, about a young woman's voyage of sexual self-discovery, was rejected by the MPAA in the U.S. for its candid depiction of intercourse.
		It was at the Toronto film fest that Reel caught up with Catherine Breillat, and she talked about her story's beginning, why she doesn't worry about Fat Girl's abrupt shift in tone, and what it took to make a 13-year-old cry.
		In fact, this is her best memory of the whole film, because she was able to it was the best memory of the entire filming, that slapping scene and she really got Arsinée [Khanjian], the mother, to really slap her hard the last take.
	www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/breillat (1542 words)

	DAILY NEWS: Cowboy v. Ontario Film Board; Comedy Fest Winners
		Now, Cowboy is taking the board to Canadian court in the hope of overturning the decision.
		"But their rash actions have made the people of Ontario aware of how this unelected body is curtailing their freedom of expression." Stikeman Elliott has agreed to work on the case on a pro bono basis.
		The Festival, which took place Feb. 27 through March 3, honored Whoopi Goldberg with the AFI Award in recognition of her work in film and television; Lily Tomlin was also recognized with a career tribute.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_020308_briefs.html (429 words)

	Monkey Business
		The Ontario Film Review Board saw the film and, to put it mildly, had a fit.
		This is not the only film by Ron Mann that has aroused, shall we say, the concern of the Censor Board.
		About twenty years ago, he made a film in which a poet heaped lavish praise upon the form and appearance of a female breast.
	www.chromehorse.net /rants/rants00/grass.htm (515 words)

	Manhunt game gets R-rating
		Manhunt was reclassified as R-rated, meaning that it cannot be sold in the province of Ontario to ANYONE under the age of 18.
		This is the first time the film rating board has stepped in to apply an R rating on a video game.
		Film ratings (and by extension video game ratings, if I have my way) fall under the jurisdiction of provincial governments, not major multinational corporations.
	p198.ezboard.com /folgafrm1.showMessage?topicID=760.topic (2472 words)

	Living in a Political World
		The decision came Friday in a case against a gay bookstore in Toronto, Glad Day Bookshop, which was charged after agents from the Ontario Film Review Board bought a copy of an unapproved gay pornographic video.
		The Ontario Superior Court said that forcing distributors to seek approval for a film is a violation of freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
		The court suspended the board's authority to ban movies for a year, although it will still classify films with ratings such as PG and Restricted.
	radio.weblogs.com /0135008/categories/macParticipation/2004/04/30.html (180 words)

	Reviled French film causes more controversy \| News \| Guardian Unlimited Film
		French film Baise-Moi is continuing its run of ignominy around the globe, with IMDb.com reporting that the Ontario Film Review Board has banned the notorious film, although neighbouring film boards in Quebec and British Columbia have given the film a conditional approval.
		Marcelle Lean, chairman of the Ontario Film Development Corp., a former member of the review board, concurred: "I would like to know that moviegoers were able to form their own opinions by being free to go and see it."
		But Ontario Film Review Board chair Bob Warren defended the ban, saying: "I can just see this going on the mainstream shelves of a video store and having someone take it home and their 14-year-old popping it into a video.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Exclusive/0,4029,403573,00.html (286 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sitting in panels of 3, all board members are considered to be part-time film classifiers.
		Film restricted to persons 18 years of age or older.
		One of the more unusual activities of the Ontario board is their twice-monthly screenings where they invite a group of people to watch the movie along with the classifiers.
	www.parentpreviews.com /html/filmratings_ca/filmratings_ca_on.shtml (262 words)

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