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Congrats to Everyone Involved in the Toronto Student Film Festival! 

5/27/2014

 
Toronto Youth Shorts was lucky enough to sponsor the Toronto Student Film Festival last Friday night and let me tell you, these students did not disappoint. Taking place at the Isabel Bader Theatre on U of T Campus, the films ran the gamut of Canadian and international talent -- From macro-lens docs and experimental black and whites, to emotional looks into fictional and real lives alike. A personal fave was a claymation short by Australian filmmaker Carolyn Duchene titled Wanda. Wanda is a lipstick in want of a family. But where to find one?

Special mention goes out to the winners of the Best Toronto Award given out by Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival Director Henry Wong. Henry and the team couldn't decide on just one, so three of the local films were given official invitations into TYSFF:

1) Jessie MacAlpine: A Story of Youth and Science by Nicole Cedic
"The film focuses on Canadian science prodigy, Jessie MacAlpine. She has recently discovered an inexpensive treatment for Malaria and has filed for patent, the kicker being that she has accomplished all of this by the young age of 18. The fact that she is brilliant is amazing in its own right, but being a humanitarian is what makes her story especially unique."

2) Criterion by Dylan Vogel
A black and white experimental film that has already won National Gold Medal and Best in Grade 11 at the 2014 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards and Best Animation in the TIFF 2014 Jump Cuts.

3) My Last Day at Work by Sean Singh
A look into the life of an ex-rail driver's heart-breaking experience with post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety.

**SUBMISSIONS ARE STILL OPEN FOR TORONTO YOUTH SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2014. SUBMIT! SUMBIT! SUBMIT!**

- Maggie

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