During the mid to late 1970s, while raising capital to fund his various
film projects, Bill operated a public relations company called Profile
out of an office in the trendy Yorkville district of Toronto. The
company designed press packages for emerging Canadian talent such as
singer/TV Hostess Julie Amato and actors/actresses Winston Rekert,
Chuck Shamata, Helen Shaver, Lynne Griffin and the Dale sisters. At the
time, he shared an old house near High Park with 3 other room mates,
all of whom, like Bill, went on to work in the film industry:
writer/director Keith Ross Leckie, producer Mary Young Leckie and
writer/film critic Dale Cooper. Bill (as director), Keith
(producer/assistant Director) and Dale (script-writer) worked together
only once on a feature film, "Prairie Landscapes" which was filmed in
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan during the summer of 1977. Shot in 2 weeks on a
shoestring government grant, it required many retakes for which there
has never been a budget and the film remains unfinished.
