Big Girl (2005)

Directed by

Renuka Jeyapalan

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

14 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl and her mother's new boyfriend clash in a battle of wills. The short film explores the tension between them.

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What happens

Big Girl is a 2005 Canadian short film, written and directed by Renuka Jeyapalan. The film depicts a battle of wills between a young girl (Samantha Weinstein) and her mother's new boyfriend (Kris Holden-Ried). It won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival, and was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 27th Genie Awards. Weinstein won an ACTRA Award for Best Actress from the Toronto chapter, becoming the youngest actress ever to win that award. It screened on CBC Television's Canadian Reflections in 2006. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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