The Perfection of the Moment wins @ MING!
Calgary AB. - Calgary based filmmaker Corey Lee's award-winning short film "The Perfection of the Moment" picked up another award as it won the grand prize at the 2007 MING Short Film Festival Gala held earlier this month.
Writer, Director and Co-Producer, Lee, who wrote and directed the 2003 feature film "Defining Edward", completed "The Perfection of the Moment" late in 2005. The film has since won a 2006 Alberta Film & Television Award for best short film after garnering seven nominations, and was a finalist for the 2006 Calgary International Film Festival's Alberta Centennial Award for excellence in short filmmaking. In March of this year the film received the Reel Canadian Indie Award from the Canadian Filmmakers Festival in Toronto. The film has screened at a number of highly regarded festivals including: Edmonton, Whistler and the touring Prairie Tales, and was invited to the Short Film Corner at the 2007 Festival de Cannes.
"The Perfection of the Moment" is the first in a trilogy of short films adapted from Canadian author, John Gould's 2003 Giller Prize nominated collection, Kilter: 55 Fictions. The film offers an unapologetic re-examination of one bad night, which unfolds as the narrator walks alone down a deserted city street, is threatened by drunks and called upon to question his own sexuality. The film stars Calgary actors Joel McNichol ("The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford") and Gillian Carfra ("Dawn Anna").
"The Perfection of the Moment" was produced with a Bravo!FACT grant, supported by Bravo! NewStyleArtsChannel, and was made possible by the generous support of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, ACTRA Calgary, William F. White International, Panavision Calgary, joeMedia Group, Six Degrees and Studio Post.
A big thank you to all the fine folks at MING for putting this festival on and for their continued support and promotion of the art of short film. Thanks also to festival judges Darryl Solly, Eugene Stickland & Alan Cho. And congratulations to filmmakers Dave Teatro and Christopher Markowsky, who also took home awards.