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Shoes Off!

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Shoes Off!
Directed byMark Sawers
Written byMark Sawers
Produced byLeah Mallen
StarringDavid Lewis
Deanna Milligan
CinematographyJohn Houtman
Edited byMichelle Floyd
Music byDon MacDonald
Production
company
Mark Sawers Productions
Distributed byAtomFilms
Release date
  • September 13, 1998 (1998-09-13) (TIFF)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Shoes Off! is a Canadian short comedy film, directed by Mark Sawers and released in 1998.[1] The film stars David Lewis as Stuart, a man who becomes entranced with a woman (Deanna Milligan) he meets in an elevator wearing a sexy pair of boots, but is too shy to talk to her. Some time later, he sees her again getting out of a taxi at a house party and decides to follow her in so he can finally meet her; however, his efforts are complicated by the hosts' "shoes off" policy, both because he has a hole in his sock and because he had paid more attention to the woman's boots than her face and thus struggles to identify who he's looking for.[2]

The cast also includes Kurt Max Runte and Marcus Hondro as other occupants of the elevator, Richard Side and Jane Sowerby as the couple hosting the party, and Ken Tremblett, Suzin Schiff, Michael Cram, J. Douglas Stuart, Deshka Penoff and Lesley Ewen as other party guests.

The film features an operatic score composed by Don MacDonald, and performed by Colin Balzar and Alison Girvan.[2]

Distribution

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The film premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival, and was subsequently screened in the International Critics' Week program at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

It received a brief theatrical run as the opening film to some Canadian screenings of the feature film Besieged.[4] It was subsequently broadcast by CBC Television as an episode of Canadian Reflections.[5]

Awards

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The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 19th Genie Awards in 1999.[6]

At Cannes, the film won the Canal+ Award.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Craig MacInnes, "A short life in Cannes". Vancouver Sun, May 21, 1999.
  2. ^ a b Craig MacInnes, "A short life in Cannes" (pt.2). Vancouver Sun, May 21, 1999.
  3. ^ Glen Schaefer, "Sawers' Shoes Off! to Cannes". The Province, May 7, 1999.
  4. ^ "Besieged". The Province, June 4, 1999.
  5. ^ Dana Gee, "Stay up late, sit back, kick Shoes Off!". The Province, June 27, 1999.
  6. ^ "Major Genie nominees". Vancouver Sun, December 8, 1998.
  7. ^ Craig MacInnes, "Canadians win at Cannes, but Egoyan is shut out". Vancouver Sun, May 24, 1999.
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