Story of depressed mom wins award at Worldwide Short Film Fest
Last Updated: Monday, June 16, 2008 | 4:13 PM ET
CBC News
Can You Wave Bye-Bye won the award for best Canadian short. (Worldwide Short Film Festival) Can You Wave Bye-Bye, a film about a young mother struggling with depression, has won the award for best Canadian short film at the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto.
Filmmaker Sarah Galea-Davis won a $10,000 award for the film, which will now be eligible for a Genie Award.
Jury members said the film handled the subject of postpartum depression with sensitivity.
The audience choice award went to Out of Spajald, a Danish film by Thomas Glud and Lars Wass. It was chosen over 268 other films at the festival.
Boar Attack, an animated film from Yukon-based Jay White about a man who fears the worst while awaiting his father's return from a walk in the woods, won the award for best animated film.
White used hand drawings to create the film and watercolour backgrounds to show the northern landscape.
Boar Attack is a hilarious animated film by Yukon-based Jay White. (Worldwide Short Film Festival) A French film, Manon on the Asphalt, by directors Elizabeth Marre and Olivier Pont won the award for best live-action short.
Manon on the Asphalt is about a young woman on her way to visit a boyfriend when life takes an unexpected turn.
Boar Attack and Manon now become eligible for an Academy Award nomination, as the WWSF festival is a qualifying round for the Oscars.
Other winners in the 2008 festival, which ended Sunday:
- Best Canadian emerging filmmaker: Audrey Cummings for Burgeon and Fade.
- Best experimental short: Roastbeef by François Bégin and Miryam Bouchard of Canada.
- Best cinematography in a Canadian short: The Answer Key, cinematographer Brendan Steacy.
- Best documentary: Zietek by Bartosz Blaschke of Poland.
- Best performance in a live action short: Death of Shula by Yusef Corman-Korman of Israel.
- Special jury prize for comedy: Aquarium by Rob Meyer of the U.S.
