Elimination Dance
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| Directed by | Bruce McDonald Don McKellar Michael Ondaatje |
| Produced by | Sandy Kaplansky |
| Written by | Bruce McDonald Don McKellar Michael Ondaatje |
| Starring | Don McKellar Tracy Wright Michael Turner |
| Cinematography | Bill St. John Peter Mettler |
| Edited by | Thor Henrikson Reginald Harkema |
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Shadow Shows
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| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
Elimination Dance is a 1998 Canadian short drama film.[1] Directed by Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar and Michael Ondaatje based on Ondaatje's poem of the same name, the film stars McKellar and Tracy Wright as a couple in a jazz dance competition, in which various couples are eliminated as the announcer (Michael Turner) calls out various elimination criteria drawn from Ondaatje's poem.[2]
Other people appearing in the film as non-speaking dancers include Meryn Cadell, Carole Pope, Laura Bertram, Valerie Buhagiar, Chas Lawther, Anna Stratton, Duke Redbird, Ryan Black, Esta Spalding, Leah Cherniak, James Allodi and Clement Virgo.
The film premiered at the 1998 Toronto International Film Festival.[3]
The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 19th Genie Awards in 1999.[4]
References
- ↑ John Haslett Cuff, "Thirty-two short things about Don McKellar". The Globe and Mail, September 10, 1998.
- ↑ Craig MacInnis, "Forever an outlaw". Ottawa Citizen, December 6, 1998.
- ↑ Marc Horton, "The omnipresent Don McKellar". Edmonton Journal, September 14, 1998.
- ↑ "Major Genie nominees". Vancouver Sun, December 8, 1998.
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Elimination Dance at IMDb
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