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Winter Hymns wins Slamdance prize
The award qualifies the short from Dusty Mancinelli for the next Academy Awards.
Toronto-based filmmaker Dusty Mancinelli has won a Slamdance Film Festival prize for his short, Winter Hymns.
The short, which follows the story of a 10-year-old boy named Joshua and his older brother as they spend an afternoon wandering the countryside in search of adventure, won the Jury Award for Narrative Short. Winning the prize means the short will qualify for the next Academy Awards.
Mancinelli served director, writer and producer on Winter Hymns. Harry Cherniak of Inflo Films also served as producer on the film. The short bowed at the 2015 edition of the Vancouver Film Festival, and won the Golden Egg award at the 2015 Reykjavik International Film Festival.
Other Canadian films that screened in this year’s Slamdance festival included Jeremy LaLonde’s How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town, Stephane Gehami’s My Enemies, Neil Rough and Michael Fuller’s Myrtle Beach, Fantavious Fritz’s Lewis and Pascal Plante’s Shitty Drum!
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