A Newfoundland and Labrador movie in regards to the agonizing disorderliness of household took house a tidy sum and the highest prize at this yr’s Whistler Movie Pageant.
The pageant introduced Sunday its jury awarded “Little Orphans” the Borsos Award for greatest Canadian function movie.
“Little Orphans” stars its author, Emily Bridger, alongside Rhiannon Morgan of “Away from In all places” and Marthe Bernard of “Republic of Doyle.” The film is shot in St. John’s, N.L., and is directed by Ruth Lawrence, a widely known filmmaker and theatre artist in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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The movie tells the story of three grownup sisters coping with the fallout from an unstable childhood and a tangled relationship with their mom.
The win comes with $15,000 from the Administrators Guild of Canada and $20,000 value of labor from Firm 3, a California-based post-production movie firm.
The Whistler Movie Pageant ran on-line from Dec. 1 to Dec. 20 and included 30 function movies and 67 brief movies.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Dec. 21, 2020.
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