Big Girl (film)

Big Girl
Directed by Renuka Jeyapalan
Produced by Anneli Ekborn
Michael Gelfand
Written by Renuka Jeyapalan
Starring Samantha Weinstein
Kris Holden-Ried
Patricia Fagan
Release date
  • 2005 (2005)
Running time
 14 minutes
Country Canada
Language English

Big Girl is a Canadian short film, directed by Renuka Jeyapalan and released in 2005.[1]

The film depicts a battle of wills between a young girl (Samantha Weinstein) and her mother's new boyfriend (Kris Holden-Ried).[2]

It won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] and was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 27th Genie Awards. Weinstein won an ACTRA Award for Best Actress from the Toronto chapter, becoming the youngest actress ever to win that award.[1]

It screened on CBC Television's Canadian Reflections in 2006.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "A best actress at 10, she already wants to direct". The Globe and Mail, March 6, 2006.
  2. ↑ "Twinkle, twinkle little star". The Globe and Mail, September 10, 2005.
  3. ↑ "Toronto film fest deemed a hit". Peterborough Examiner, September 19, 2005.
  4. ↑ "Hockey doc shoots wide of the net". The Globe and Mail, September 15, 2006.
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