Twenty years ago producer/ director Ira Wohl won the collected nod of every festival jury, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with Best Boy. Now Wohl is looking for a Canadian distributor for the Oscar-winning doc’s sequel, Best Man: `Best Boy’ and All of Us Twenty Years Later, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival.

While distributors have approached Wohl, who is discussing general distribution with them, Wohl is looking for someone here for Canadian distribution.

The first doc, Best Boy, was shot over four years and chronicled how Wohl’s 50-year-old mentally-challenged cousin Philly became independent, culminating in his moving into a group home. Now 70, Philly becomes bar mitzvahed in Best Man, and his old family and new family come together for the event.

Produced by Wohl’s Beverly Hills-based Only Child Motion Pictures, Best Man started to shoot six weeks after the idea, greenlit via prebuys from hbo (‘They’re great, they say yes and then just let you do it’), the ubiquitous Channel 4 in the u.k. and France’s equally indispensable La Sept/arte. It is set for spring ’98 broadcast.

Wohl, amid a whirl of kudos after the tiff screening, also fielded interest from an Israeli tv buyer who had been unsuccessfully trying to track down Best Boy, quipping, ‘You’ll have to pay me in cash, not gefilte fish.’ Best Boy is currently back in the hands of Wohl, who is looking into what should be done in terms of packaging it with its sequel.