I would like to come back to the issue of marketing our films to Radio-Canada. Without a doubt, Radio-Canada and the CBC could buy more of our films. They only account for 14% of our television sales in Canada. That means that 86% of our sales are made to other broadcasters. The fact remains that the CBC's mandate is mainstream and more time slots could be set aside for documentaries. We would like to see that happen. However, we are aware of the operational environment of the Corporation.
We have often argued this case with CBC management. If there was a weekly show for feature documentaries, not necessarily NFB films, but something similar to what French and British public television broadcasts, a viewing habit would be created and people would want to see more. It would create a model. We need to work on making this happen.
As far as showing our movies in theatres goes, we have the example of the Danish Poet, which won an Oscar. We were almost able to show it at one of your meetings, but it did not work out because of something urgent that cropped up on your schedule. This film is shown before feature films. We have managed to show our shorts before feature films with two Canadian distributors. We are working a great deal on that.
We are also working on broadcasting a range of our productions in non-commercial theatres in the regions and in theatres specializing in NFB films in Montreal and in Toronto. In Montreal, the Ex-Centris features many of our films.