Selling Out (film)

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Selling Out
Directed byTadeusz Jaworski
Written byJack Winter
Tadeusz Jaworski
Produced byTadeusz Jaworski
StarringVernon Macgoughan, Bob Hogg, Frank McNutt, Pamela Winter
Narrated byJon Granik
CinematographyBruce Allen
Stanley Lipinski
Edited byMartin Pepler
Music byPeter Cornell
Production
company
Unit Productions
Distributed by Humber College
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
Running time
32 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Selling Out is a 1972 Canadian short film for cinema and TV produced and directed by Tadeusz Jaworski, and written by Jaworski and Jack Winter. [1]

At the 45th Academy Awards in 1973, it was nominated for an Academy Award (Short Subject), [2] and was named Best Documentary at the 24th Canadian Film Awards. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Selling Out". screenculture.org. CESIF. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
  2. ↑ "The 45th Academy Awards (1973) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
  3. ↑ "Wedding in White voted top film". Canadian Press . Saskatoon Star-Phoenix. 16 October 1972. p. 8. Retrieved 9 December 2012.
  4. ↑ "Selling Out". screenculture.org. CESIF. Retrieved 18 March 2023.


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