Two standout National Film Board of Canada (NFB) productions were recognized at this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), reaffirming the NFB's excellence in cinema in both animation and documentary.
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's stop-motion animated short The Girl Who Cried Pearls has received the Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film, while Min Sook Lee's deeply personal feature documentary There Are No Words landed an honourable mention for Best Canadian Feature Film at a ceremony held earlier today.
"For over two decades, we've been proud to create Canadian, hand-crafted films. So, for us, there are few honours that match winning the award for Best Canadian Short Film on the 50th anniversary of TIFF." - Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
"This film honours my mother, Song Ji Lee, a working-class immigrant woman who lived and died on her terms. Women like her are often erased from memory, a violence that repeats in life. TIFF's Honourable Mention ensures a counter-archive, insisting that how we remember the past shapes the present we build." - Min Sook Lee
The Girl Who Cried Pearls by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (17 min)
Produced for the NFB by Julie Roy, Marc Bertrand and Christine Noël
