Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival (5/26-29/05).(FESTIVAL WRAPS)
Publication Date: 01-SEP-05
Publication Title: Take One
Format: Online
Author: Daniels, Calvin

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It was the night for Shadow Pleasures at this year's Golden Sheaf Awards. The performing--arts film based on the works of famed author Michael Ondaatje, Shadow Pleasures took home the Golden Sheaf Award of Excellence, the highest honour of the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival. It was nominated in seven categories at the 58th annual festival and won six other Golden Sheaf Awards, including Best Performing Arts/Entertainment Film.

The 58-minute film is a fusion of poetry, prose, dance and sound directed by Veronica Tennant. Tennant, who has an Emmy Award to her credit as well as being a former prima ballerina, collected the Golden Sheaf for Best Director--Fiction at the awards gala Saturday evening. Ondaatje, best known for The English Patient, narrates the film. "This really is a film of love,"...



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