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Well.., not personally, but my movie did!

Long story short, I did a short a couple of months back in a "Do a movie in 48h" kinda event (traditionally called the Kino Kabaret). The movie was recently shown at the Montreal Fantasia Festival during the "Do It Yourself" short program.

Well I was attending the award ceremony last Sunday (mainly because they had free booze for the directors. Free booze is good). I basically had no hope of winning. I love my movie, but I don't think it's a "festival caliber" movie, I pretty much got lucky with Fantasia.

No need to tell you how surprised I was when they announced that the Best Actor in a DIY short went to my movie and, most specifically, its main actor, Maxime Desjardins. He's an awesome actor but not really known publicly here, so he was ecstatic to hear the news.

For you non-believers out there, here's the report from Dread Central to prove it (you have to scroll a bit to get to the Quebecois DIY shorts section).

Also, for those of you who wish to see the movie, you can watch it on Vimeo here.