Did you know about our AUDIO CINÉ FILMS and CRITERION PICTURES licenses?

The Visual Resources Centre has licenses with Audio Ciné and with Criterion Pictures that make it possible to use videos from the VRC or your own commercial videos for classroom instruction at the University of Calgary. (This does NOT include television shows)  Any title that is available from either distributor is eligible for classroom use. Direct questions to VRC Desk.

Here's how

1: Check
Do a search on the Audio Ciné and Criterion websites to make sure that the title is in either catalogue.
www.acf-film.com OR http://www.criterionpic.com.
** If the title you wish to use does not appear on either site, please contact Leslie Moore  (mleslie@ucalgary.ca) for information.

2: Report
Report the title of any film you show to your class to Leslie Moore (mleslie@ucalgary.ca)
We are contractually required to report this information to the distributors in order for them to forward the royalties payable to the appropriate producers/studios.

** Please do not hesitate to come to or call the Visual Resources Centre if you have any questions.

Audio Ciné Films : www.acf-film.com

"Audio Ciné Films Inc. (ACF) is Canada's exclusive non-theatrical distributor and public performance licensing agent for Canadian, American and foreign feature film producers such as Universal Studios, Walt Disney Pictures, Alliance-Atlantis, Paramount Pictures, MGM Studios, Touchstone Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, United Artists, FineLine Features, Orion Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, New Line Cinema, Behaviour, Miramax Films, Odeon, Sony Classics, Paramount Classics, Blackwatch Releasing and Artisan Entertainment, among others. It distributes films in 16MM, 35MM, videocassette and DVD."
From Copyright Collective Societies: www.cb-cda.gc.ca/societies/index-e.html

Criterion Pictures: www.criterionpic.com

"Criterion Pictures is the non-theatrical distributor of feature films for many of Hollywood's major motion picture studios. It offer movies to the non-theatrical market on four primary mediums: 35mm, 16mm, VHS and DVD. Criterion Pictures administers and manages both educational (Visual Education Centre) and entertainment audiovisual works including motion pictures distributed by, among many others, Astral Films (TVA), Columbia Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, Fox Searchlight, Lions Gate Films, Lucas Films, Norstar Releasing Inc.,Tri-Star Pictures, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Revolution Studios and Savoy Pictures. It grants licences for the use of these protected works."
From Copyright Collective Societies: www.cb-cda.gc.ca/societies/index-e.html

Last updated: February 2, 2010