Cdn. filmmakers Guy Maddin and Nick Fox-Gieg win prizes at SXSW festival

Winnipeg movie maker Guy Maddin and Toronto-based animator and video artist Nick Fox-Gieg have won film awards at the South by Southwest festival in Texas. Maddin nabbed the jury award for best experimental short film for “Night Mayor,” which is described as a “comical fantasia” about a Bosnian immigrant in Winnipeg. And Fox-Gieg won the jury award for best animated short for “The Orange,” a humorous and surreal tale of the history of the citrus fruit. “Night Mayor” was produced by Joe MacDonald of a Winnipeg branch of the National Film Board, which won a Web Award at the festival for its Waterlife Interactive site.

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