"Luxury" by Jarek Sztandera awarded by the audience in Canada
At the recently finished Canadian festival CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, one of the most important short film festivals in North America, "Luxury" by Jarek Sztandera got one of the most important awards of this festival - the most important one, because given by the festival audience.
Telus Audience Choice Award - the audience's award given at this year's CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, which took place from 1-6th June in Toronto, went to Jarek Sztandera, the director of the short feature film "Luxury", made in The Leon Schiller's National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź."Luxury" is the story about two boys, the prostituting teenager nicknamed "Luxury" and the beggar kid with a dog. The older one, because of his age, has just been "withdrawn from circulation". The younger is one step away from following in his footsteps. The local taxi driver, the main customer and middleman in the child sex business, offers the job of a huckster to Luxury. Every scene of the film, taking place on the Central Warsaw Railway Station, brings up a really existing problem.
The feature film by Jarek Sztandera was and still is shown and awarded at many festivals around the world, among others, at Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival in France (the Young Jury's Award), Paris Cinema International Film Festival, Brussels International Short Film Festival, Brooklyn Inernational FF in New York, Flicker Fest IFF in Sydney, Flicker Fest IFF on Alaska. At the end of last year, the film won the Grand Prix at the International Short Film Festival Almeria en Corto. In the near future, you can watch "Luxury" at the Curtas Vila do Conde festival in Portugal as well as at Massage to Man International Film Festival in Petersburg, where it will be shown within the frames of POLISH SHORTS programme, prepared in cooperation with Krakow Film Foundation.
More information can be found at www.worldwideshortfilmfest.com and www.polishshorts.pl