Big Girl (film)

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]

  1. ^ a b 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.