Rhonda's Party | |
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Directed by | Ashley McKenzie |
Written by | Christine Comeau |
Produced by | Nelson MacDonald |
Starring | Marguerite McNeil Karine Vanasse |
Cinematography | Becky Parsons |
Edited by | Thorben Bieger |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Rhonda's Party is a Canadian short drama film, written and directed by Ashley McKenzie and released in 2010. [1] The film stars Marguerite McNeil as Rhonda, a reclusive elderly woman living in a nursing home who has been planning a 100th birthday party for her closest friend in the home, and Karine Vanasse as Amy, a nurse who has been left with the task of informing Rhonda that the other woman has died the night before the party.
The film won CBC Television's Short Film Face-Off in 2011, [2] and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list. [3]
McNeil won an ACTRA Award for Outstanding Performance, Female from the Nova Scotia chapter of ACTRA for her performance. [4] The film won the award for Best Cinematography at the 2011 Air Canada enRoute Film Festival. [5]
In 2013, McKenzie won the A&E Short Filmmakers Award and the Shaw Media Fearless Female Director Award at the National Screen Institute's Online Short Film Festival. [6]
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