The Saddest Boy in the World

The Saddest Boy in the World
Directed byJamie Travis
Written byJamie Travis
Produced byAmy Belling
Jamie Travis
StarringBenjamin Smith
Kirsten Robek
Babz Chula
CinematographyAmy Belling
Edited byJason Schneider
Music byAlfredo Santa Ana
Production
company
Modern Family Productions
Release date
  • September 14, 2006 (2006-09-14) (TIFF)
Running time
13 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

The Saddest Boy in the World is a Canadian short black comedy film, directed by Jamie Travis and released in 2006.[1] The film stars Benjamin Smith as Timothy Higgins, a lonely and unhappy young boy who plans to commit suicide by hanging himself on his birthday.[2]

It was the second film in his Saddest Children in the World trilogy, following Why the Anderson Children Didn't Come to Dinner and preceding The Armoire.

The film had its theatrical premiere at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival.[1] It was later screened at the 2007 Inside Out Film and Video Festival, where it was cowinner with Michèle Pearson Clarke's Black Men and Me of the award for Best Canadian Short Film.[3]

  1. ^ a b "Emotion gets best of Belling: The Saddest Boy in the World makes its debut at Toronto's film festival". Langley Times, September 22, 2006.
  2. ^ Glen Schaefer, "In short, B.C.'s kids are all right". The Province, October 12, 2006.
  3. ^ "Sijie Dai film named Best Feature at Inside Out fest". The Globe and Mail, May 29, 2007.