Three Walls

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Three Walls
Directed byZaheed Mawani
Produced byZaheed Mawani
Andrea Bussman
Cinematography Maya Bankovic
Jared Raab
Edited byZaheed Mawani
Music byDamian Valles
Release date
  • March 27, 2011 (2011-03-27)(Palm Beach)
Running time
26 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Three Walls is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Zaheed Mawani and released in 2011. [1] Made as part of Mawani's graduate thesis for the film studies program at York University, the film presents a humorous look at the history of the office cubicle. [2]

The film premiered at the 2011 Palm Beach International Film Festival, [3] and was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Short Documentary Film at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards. [4]

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References

  1. "Three west end directors show at Hot Docs". Toronto.com , April 28, 2011.
  2. "It’s Not About the Furniture: Cubicles, Continued". The New York Times , August 22, 2011.
  3. "Last days of film fest features student offerings, documentaries". The Palm Beach Post. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  4. "Introducing the Canadian Screen Awards, and their 2013 nominees". Maclean's , January 15, 2013.