Daniel Audet’s screenplay Rusted Pyre snagged third place honors at the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition in 2008 and next month it’ll see its world premiere at the CFC’s Worldwide Short Film Festival.

Audet’s screenplay was chosen from more than 4,100 submissions to the WSFF, and his team of CSSC founder and producer David Cormican (Minus Lara, Seeing In The Dark) and director Laurence Cohen (Rocket Man) also took home the National Screen Institute’s Drama Prize in Winnipeg last year.

The prairie piece was later filmed in Havelock, Saskatchewan and stars Brooke Palsson (Less Than Kind) and Samantha Somer Wilson (Nurse.Fighter.Boy). It tells the story of the two girls who head for an abandoned car as a rite of passage and a night of ghost story.

The Albertan trio landed financial support via the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.

The Worldwide Short Film Festival runs from May 31 to June 5 in Toronto.