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The Man that Got Away
- Runtime:
- 25 min.
- Year of Production:
- 2012
- Country:
- Kanada
- Director:
- Cast:
- Aryn McConnell
Bryce Kulak
Noam Gagnon
Connie Champagne - Production Company:
- Dirt City Films
- Berlinale Section:
- Shorts
- Berlinale Category:
- Short Film
Director's statement:
A musical. A life. My family almost forgot to tell me about my great-uncle Jimmy. True story, or so I'm told. Jimmy grew up on a farm, on the Canadian prairies, in the Rosebud Valley, during the Great Depression. His older brothers were teenage mechanics, or outfielders on the local baseball team. But not Jimmy. At ten years old, Jimmy was Georgie Kempt's star pupil in tap dance and acrobatics.
Jimmy: "O the sky is blue and the birds are too / And the rapeseed's high and yellow / And I got no clue what I'm s'posed to do / So I stand on a hill and bellow / I gotta get the frick outta this goddamn craphole / Before I lose my flippin' mind / Or throw myself into a combine / Fill the well fulla strychnine
Hell! This place is so gay and not in the good way."
BIOGRAFIE Trevor Anderson
Trevor Anderson is a director, writer, and actor. His films include Docking (Sundance '19); The Little Deputy (Sundance '15, SXSW '15); The Man That Got Away (D.A.A.D. Short Film Prize, Berlinale '12, SXSW '12); The High Level Bridge (Sundance '11, SXSW '11); The Island (Berlinale '09, Best Short Film at Pink Apple Zurich '09), and Rock Pockets (Lindalee Tracey Award, Hot Docs '07).
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Trevor Anderson
FILMOGRAFIE Trevor Anderson (selection)
2019 The Twentieth Century
2012 The Man that Got Away
2011/2012 Teddy Kurzfilmrolle 2012
2009 The Island