Polish-Swedish short honoured at LA awards
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Nick Hodge
23.01.2014 12:33
A Polish-Swedish black comedy about stressed businessmen in a suicide bid has won both the Best Editing Award and an honourable mention at the Los Angeles Movie Awards.
Image: The Big Leap (Facebook)
Short film The Big Leap focuses on three characters who meet on the top of a skyscraper after their careers bomb in the financial crisis.
Ben (Arkadiusz Kubiak) is an agnostic, Sarah (Tilly Scott Pedersen) is a devout believer in God, while John (Gustaf Skarsgard) is a committed atheist.
The three enter into a heated discussion about what lies beyond, yet the only way to find out who's in the right is to jump.
Director Kristoffer Rus, who is of Polish background, studied at Andrzej Wajda's film school in Warsaw and he is currently working on his feature-length debut, an adaptation of Jaroslaw Stawirej's 2011 novel The Massacre of the Profane (Masakra Profana).
The Los Angeles Movie Awards champion independent cinema, and this year's Best Narrative Feature Award went to Alexander Tovar and Rob Herring's romantic comedy Nothing in Los Angeles.
Source: PAP