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Marie, unable to handle the smallâ€"town scrutiny leaves after this lifeâ€"alitering experience, changes her name, and eventually becomes internationallyâ€" acclaimed opera singer @Francesca. Premiere screening of ‘Perfect Pie‘ raises funds for Big Brothers and Big Sisters Directed by Barbara Willis Sweete (Last Night) and based on Judith Thompson‘s play of the same name, Perfect Pie is the story of two women Marie (Barbara Williams) and Patsy (Wendy Crewson ) who were best friends until a traumatic event causes Marie to leave town. Patsy stays, marries and lives a seemingly idyllic country life on her family farm, comâ€" pletely selfâ€"absorbed in her kitchen baking homemade perfect pie. s Marnie Wharnsby A;al watching Perfect ie at the Toronto Film Festival last year, she had a scathingly brilliant idea. Why not bring this story about longâ€"time friends home to her Best Friends. Best Friends is a volunâ€" teer organization founded in 1989 by the late local TV personality Betty Thompâ€" Thompson successfully organized Best Friends â€" a hardâ€"working collective dedicated to raising funds for Big Sisters in the Kitchâ€" enerâ€"Waterloo area. Big Sisâ€" ters recently amaigamated with Big Brothers so the goal of fundraising and the creâ€" ative incentive to do that has now literally doubled. Perfect Pie is all about best friends. After 20 years, Patsy asks Francesca back to town to sing in a benefit concert. Through past events of their youth at ages 10 and 15, By Corat. Anprewsâ€"Lesu® For The Chronicle Barbara and Wendy Crewson star in Perfect Pie, which will be presented at the Princess Cinema next week. Patsy and Francesca, now in _ the Canadian film and teleâ€" their presentâ€"day awkward _ vision industry, works for relationship as two grown _ Toronto‘s nationallyâ€" women, are forced to examâ€" _ acclaimed film and televiâ€" ine the ‘filling‘of their bond _ sion production company through layers of life‘s crust _ Rhombus Media and has a that cruelly broke apart, and _ hectic schedule often editâ€" slowly eroded their 30â€"year _ ing around the clock. connection. Wharnsby recently It is a film about women, relationships, and change, but its universal theme is not just for women. Perfect Pie has also been nominated for two Genie Awards, Best Cinematograâ€" phy (shot by Paul Sarossy) and Best Adapted Screenâ€" ) e â€" The film also has a close connection for Marnie Wharnsby, because her son David was the editor of Perfect Pie. David Wharnsby, from Waterloo, studied film at KCI in the early ‘90s, and continued his chosen craft at Ryerson College in Toronâ€" to. He is now one of the most successful editors in ARTS FOCUS the Canadian film and teleâ€" vision industry, works for Toronto‘s nationallyâ€" acclaimed film and televiâ€" sion production company Rhombus Media and has a hectic schedule often editâ€" ing around the clock. He is a busy man, now a Toronto native, not thrilled with _ the _ starâ€"maker machinery of this industry, but rather his cuttingâ€"edge work as an artist with some of Canada‘s finest and most controversial entertainment Wharnsby usually avoids interviews, but wanted to help his mother‘s Best Friends with this worthy cinematic cause. He credits his own start in film to an old KCI teacher and mentor. HRONICLE | "Wayne McNanney at KCI was really influential. I liked him a lot," said Wharnsby sparing 10 minâ€" utes between projects to chat. Wharnsby began as an assistant at Rhombus Media and then worked his way to a fullâ€"time position. When people say he‘s a local boy that made the bigâ€"time, he laughs. "Once a film went late at Rhombus, and the editor had to leave it to go to another project and I just took over for her," recalled Wharnsby. "I have been working with them ever since." Some projects take up to four months, depending on the structure of the materiâ€" al, like the 1999 National Film Board drama Truth Merchants. Documentaries take a lot longer. "I just finished a film with Jennifer Baichwal about photographer Shelby Lee Adams, and that took us seven months, the longest I have ever worked on a film. We had 130 hours of materiâ€" al. We chip;‘q away at the 130 hours Tnd made a roughâ€"cut of which was five hours long, and then from there we tried to decide on a structure and that went through many different In addition to his film work, Wharnsby also works with Ken Finkleman. "For Foreign Objects, I did three episodes and in the show called Chaos and Order (which aired last week on Showcase), that editing process was pretty quick. With Ken, a lot of his stuff is structured beforehand, so Continued on page 19 Harrison‘s debut album was produced by Stan Rogers and engineered by Daniel Lanois in 1979. Since that time, he has toured Canada, the United States and Great Britain, appearing in the Philadelphia Folk Festival, Toronto‘s Harbourfront Centre for the Performing Arts, The Stan Rogers Folk Festival, New York‘s Caffe Lena, Engâ€" land‘s Midland Arts Centre and Scotland‘s An Lanntair Arts Centre. Tim Harrison, one of Canada‘s finest singer songwritâ€" ers on folk and acoustic landscape, will be performing at the Waterloo Community Arts Centre Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. Harrison is a consummate artist whose performances are propelled by his powerful singing and poetic lyrics. His concerts are punctuated with intricate storytelling and great wit, making him an audience favourite. As Roz and Howard Larman of Folksence state, "Tim Harrison‘s music stops you in your tracks and begs you to listen." Tickets can be purchased in advance at the arts centre and Words Worth Books for $12 or at the door for $15. For further information, call the Waterloo Community Arts Centre at 886â€"4577. The Ontario Trillium Foundation has awarded a signifâ€" icant grant of $185,000 over three years to support the continued development of the Canadian Clay & Glass "This grant will support the gallery‘s mission of preâ€" senting contemporary material culture executed in the silica media â€" ceramics, glass, and enamel â€" for public edification and enjoyment," said gallery director Glenn Allison. "We are grateful for Trillium‘s commitment to arts and culture." The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery will use the grant initially to enhance the gift shop‘s display and storage area and hire a development coordinator to improve the Gallery‘s selfâ€"earned revenue capabilities. In the second and third years, the grant will enable the gallery to add the services of a contract marketing coordinator. Founded in 1993, the gallery has held numerous national and internaâ€" tional exhibitions and conferences on the silica arts. Deputy Premier Elizabeth Witmer, MPP for Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo, presented a $185,000 Ontario Trillium Foundaâ€" tion cheque to Keith Masterman, chair of the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery today. "I am very pleased that the government of Ontario is able to support this worthwhile cultural initiative," said Witmer. The current grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundaâ€" tion will support initiatives that will have a positive Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery receives Trillium grant mw‘onsifiamdlegallerymdwfllamfiyms from the rest of Ontario, United States, Europe and Asia to Tim Harrison performs at Button Factory G~ AI1GER‘S Serving travellers since 1955 772vePMus OPEN "24 /7 / 365"! www.gotravelplus.com