Montreal: In the latest Allegro Films production, The Wrong Woman, directed by Doug Jackson, a woman moves to a new city determined to escape an unhappy relationship. She lands a job with an abusive architect who immediately comes on to her. It’s all downhill from there, and when the sweaty boss turns up dead, she’s wrongly accused of the crime.

The Wrong Woman was shot throughout July and early August on 35mm film on location in Montreal and has been presold to cbs as a movie-of-the-week. Douglas Soesbe wrote the story, which stars Nancy McKeon (Facts of Life) in the lead role, Stephen Shellen (A River Runs Through It) as the murdered boss, Chelsea Field and Quebec actress Michelle Scarabelli.

Peter Benison was the dop. Jose Heppell and Robert Newton are editing at Multimontage.

Producers are Tom Berry of Allegro and Pierre David of Image Organization, Los Angeles, the film’s exporter.

Allegro is also in the midst of production on 13 half-hours of La Courte echelle, a $3.4 million children’s series for public broadcaster Radio-Quebec.

Based on the books of Quebec author Chrystiane Brouillet, this Super 16mm shoot is being directed by Marc Voizard and Jean Mercier. Stephen Riezes is the dop, Richard Tasse has resurfaced as the shoot’s art director, and Carole Vaillancourt is the pm. Principal photography ends Oct. 30.

Allegro’s Franco Battista is producing and Francois Saint-Laurent is the executive producer.

Allegro, Productions sda and Coscient became three separate production divisions of publicly traded Groupe Coscient following a $10 million cash-and-stock-swap deal in February.

Back to the big city

It’s a wrap for principal photography on Ile Verte, a France/Canada telefilm directed by Claude Gagnon of Aska Films and coproduced by GMT Productions, Paris. The movie will be broadcast on Super Ecran, the French-track pay-tv movie channel.

After weeks of shooting on picturesque Ile Verte, downstream on the St. Lawrence River, Gagnon and crew picked up some of the film’s opening scenes using a couple of Montreal locations, including the Palais des congres convention center, which was dressed up as a Paris airport terminal.

The film tells the trans-Atlantic story of Veronique, a sophisticated French architect, and her Canadian-born son Thomas, a hemophiliac who is hiv positive. Despairing, and terribly ill, Thomas decides to search out his Quebec roots and a hoped-for cure on the seemingly serene island.

The all-star cast includes French actors Brigitte Fossey as Veronique and Matthieu Roze as Thomas. Rounding out the cast are Quebec actors Marie Tifo, David La Haye, Claude Gauthier and Gabriel Arcand in the role of Claude, Thomas’ Quebecois father.

Fourth entry is a first

Director Sylvie Groulx began shooting her first feature film earlier this month, a drama about the so-called ‘forgotten generation’ called Petit meuble, saumon fume (working title).

Produced by Studio C, the National Film Board’s French-language drama studio, and Monique Letourneau, Petit meuble is the fourth entry in the year-old Programme Familiarite, an nfb series on the evolving nature of family life.

The film stars Lucie Laurier, Dominic Darceuil and Patrick Labbe, who played opposite video recording artist Mitsou in another teen love tale, Coyote.

Laurier’s character, Winnie, is a 17-year-old mother who’s determined to defy all odds. When she’s approached by a young film student for the lead role in his new movie, Winnie’s ex, the father of the child, decides he’s interested after all.

Groulx has been making films for 15 years and is best known for her documentaries Grandir (1991), Qui va chercher Gisele a 3h45? (1989) and Chronique d’un temps flou (1989).

Production wraps Sept. 2. and Petit meuble will be in theaters in the fall of 1995.

Coming up

New and upcoming Quebec film action according to the stcvq includes:

– Erreur sur la personne, a psychological thriller and the feature film debut of director Gilles Noel, starring Michel Cote (Cruising Bar) and Macha Grenon. Producers are Nanouk Brault and Daniele Bussy of Nanouk Films. Shooting dates are Aug. 12 to Sept. 10;

– A project called The Maid from Canadian International Studios and veteran producer Murray Shostak;

– Rainbow, a $10 million children’s fantasy feature film from u.k. director/actor Bob Hoskins and Filmline International producer Nicolas Clermont;

– La revanche de la momie, a feature-length docudrama from director/producer Claude Laflamme and Main Film;

– Omerta, la loi du silence, a major new 13-hour undercover agents-versus-the-mob tv series from Productions sda. Producers are Helene Perras, Francois Champagne and Lise Abastado. Michel Poulette (Louis 19) is directing and Luc Dionne is the writer;

– Caboose, the second feature film from director Richard Roy (Moody Beach) and Films Stock International producer Richard Sadler (Comment faire l’amourÉ, Louis 19, le roi des ondes); and,

– A rather Latin-sounding feature project called Angelo, Fredo and Romeo from Productions du Regard producer Jean-Roch Marcotte and director Pierre Plante.

Tee time

Tcreenwriter Fabienne Larouche (La Misericorde, Scoop) and producer Jean-Roch Marcotte (Le Sexe des etoiles) are copresidents of the 2nd annual Tournoi de golf de l’image et du son. Their goal is to sign up 144 golfers at $150 a pop, with proceeds going to Fondation OLO, an agency which provides food supplements to 20,000 pregnant women a year.

Last year, the tournament attracted about 100 members of the Quebec film and tv industry and raised $3,500 on behalf of l’Institut national de l’image et du son, the advanced film studies center scheduled to open in 1995.

The tournament is being held Sept. 12 at Le Portage de l’Assomption Golf Club. Ticket price includes a round of golf, use of a cart and supper. For information contact Daniele Gauthier of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television in Montreal at (514) 849-7448.