It was the call that St. John’s filmmaker Ruth Lawrence had been dreaming about getting.
A Newfoundland and Labrador film about the agonizing disorderliness of a family took home a tidy sum and the top prize at this year’s Whistler Film Festival.
“Little Orphans” has won the award for best Canadian feature film.
✨Congratulations LITTLE ORPHANS directed by @IamRuthLawrence for winning the Borsos Award for Best Canadian Feature ✨
Watch this and all other films online across Canada until December 31. 👉https://t.co/FlegGomrJ4@emmybridger @NIFCOFILM pic.twitter.com/Y9ok1qqa5a
— Whistler Film Fest (@whisfilmfest) December 20, 2020
Lawrence, the director, got the call on Sunday.
The film tells the story of three adult sisters dealing with the fallout from an unstable childhood and a tangled relationship with their mother. She hopes the award will encourage people to go see it.
The win comes with $15,000 from the Directors Guild of Canada and $20,000 worth of work from Company 3, a California-based post-production film company.
The Whistler Film Festival ran online from December 1 to December 20 and included 30 feature films and 67 short films.
