By the early 1970, University of Toronto graduate David Cronenberg had spent more than a half dozen years working around the fringes of the Canadian film and television industry, both as an amateur of his own short films and shooting fillers for Canadian television (CB). Having finally decided that filmmaking was to be his career of choice, Cronenberg approached Cine, a fledgling low budget film company, hoping to direct one of their features. After a failed directional audition, Cronenberg set out to write the film that would get Cinepix into the lucrative American market, a horror movie with the working title, "Orgy of the Blood Parasites," later to be known as "Shivers." John Dunning and Andre Link, co-owners of Cinepix, loved the script and believed it to be just the right project to get a foothold ., the first serious horror film from Canada. The next step was funding the project, which meant Dunning and Link took the script to the Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC). Seeing the script as n