Filmmaker Mort Ransen working on National Film Board of Canada documentary, Christopher’s Movie Matinee in 1968.Independent filmmaker Mort Ransen reached the zenith of his cinematic career with, a 1995 feature film that he co-wrote and directed. The British/Canadian co-production won six Genie Awards plus a nomination for best picture with an additional nod to Mr. Ransen and his co-writer, Gerald Drexler, for best screenplay.
“He felt strongly about being in charge of his ending,” said Libby Mason, a theatre director and Mr. Ransen’s partner for the past 21 years. Prior to his relationship with Ms. Mason, Mr. Ransen had married twice and was a father of four. Mr. Ransen was born Moishe Socoransky on Aug. 16, 1933, in Montreal to immigrants from the Ukraine. He was the youngest of four children in the Yiddish-speaking household of Shimmel and Fanny Socoransky. Mr. Socoransky was highly regarded in his community as a scholar and political expert even though he rejected Judaism and became a communist.
As the sixties progressed, the NFB felt the emerging “peace, love and protest” hippie culture in Toronto’s Yorkville area should be documented. Mr. Ransen arranged for the Kodak company to supply 50 cameras to students and, in the spirit of democracy, let them decide what to film. The Globe and Mail went even further with a decisive front-page headline: “Film Board’s Role in Hippie Happenings is Revealed.” Mr. Ransen included these reports in the film. He says, on camera, “I’ve been ordered to pack up and get out of town.” A skeptical teenaged participant asks, “Do you think you’ll be able to make a film out of it?” The ending shot is Mr. Ransen’s response: “I don’t know.”
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