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| The Canadian horror film Dys- wins the CDFF Audience Award for Best Feature |
Ottawa's
Cellar Door Film Festival has announced the two Audience Award winners for CDFF 2014.
Dys-, directed by Maude Michaud, wins the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at CDFF ‘14 while
The Cold Heart (
Das Kalte Herz), directed by Hannes Rall, emerges with the Audience Award for Best Short Film. The selection of the Canadian horror film Dys- and the German animated fable
The Cold Heart makes an especially fine pair for Cellar Door’s celebration of both Canadian and international filmmakers.
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| The Cold Heart is the Audience favourite for Best Short Film |
Dys- screened on Saturday night with a very engaging Q&A with Michaud and actor Alex Goldrich. (The chat was moderated by yours truly, but the audience was so enthusiastic about the film that all I really had to do was hold the microphone and point.)
The Cold Heart, on the other hand, emerged as the favourite from the strong competition in Sunday's shorts programme 'From the Basement of the World.'
I'm very happy to see these two strong and diverse films win the kudos of Ottawa audiences. The response for the festival was very encouraging. Friday night's screening of
Roseville sold out and had turn aways while Saturday's screening of
Dys- was a great night since the audience responded quite strongly to the provocative film, which is relief since it lets the CDFF team know that Ottawa audiences are hungry for films that take risks. Sunday's screenings were also lots of fun, with the shorts programme having an especially good turnout to see local filmmakers Carmelo Zucco and Dylan Hunt-Weeks share their films
The Phoenix and
Experiment 467.
Thanks to everyone who came out to support the strange and unusual!
