Big Girl
Directed byRenuka Jeyapalan
Written byRenuka Jeyapalan
Produced byAnneli Ekborn
Michael Gelfand
StarringSamantha Weinstein
Kris Holden-Ried
Patricia Fagan
Release date
  • 2005 (2005)
Running time
14 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Big Girl is a 2005 Canadian short film, written and directed by Renuka Jeyapalan.[1]

The film depicts a battle of wills between a young girl (Samantha Weinstein) and her mother's new boyfriend (Kris Holden-Ried).[2]

It won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival,[3] and was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 27th Genie Awards.[4] Weinstein won an ACTRA Award for Best Actress from the Toronto chapter, becoming the youngest actress ever to win that award.[1]

It screened on CBC Television's Canadian Reflections in 2006.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Gayle MacDonald, "A best actress at 10, she already wants to direct". The Globe and Mail, March 6, 2006.
  2. Gayle MacDonald, "Twinkle, twinkle little star". The Globe and Mail, September 10, 2005.
  3. "Toronto film fest deemed a hit". Peterborough Examiner, September 19, 2005.
  4. "Trailer Park Boys, Bon Cop compete for best picture Genie". CBC News, January 9, 2007.
  5. "Hockey doc shoots wide of the net". The Globe and Mail, September 15, 2006.


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