SECTIONS // OFFICIAL COMPETITION SHORT LENGTH

Bacon & God's Wrath

Sol Friedman
9' / 2015 / Canada
Web: www.ARTBEAST.ca
English
Spanish subtitled

Audience vote 7.26

A 90 year old Jewish woman reflects on her life’s experiences as she prepares to try bacon for the first time.

Main Festivals & Awards

TIFF: Honourable Mention ‘short cuts’ / Sundance: Jury Award ‘Short non-fiction’ / Canadian Screen Awards: Best short documentary
Hamptons IFF: Nominated to Golden Starfish Award / Santa Barbara IFF / Cinequest / SXSW

Director's Biography

Sol Friedman is an award-winning, animator and filmmaker based in Toronto, Canada. His short films blend a variety of live-action and animation techniques, and have played at the Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance, SXSW, Annecy and over sixty other international film festivals worldwide. In recent years, Sol has been honoured with a Sundance Jury Award, a Canadian Screen Award, a retrospective screening of his works, and has been an invited participant in the Kyoto Filmmakers Lab, the TIFF Talent Lab and the TIFF Pitch This competition.