''Pâté'' is a short film by
Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo. The film premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival and went on to win several prestigious awards including NYU's
Wasserman Award
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, the Fielle d'Or at the
Beverly Hills Film Festival
The Beverly Hills Film Festival (BHFF) is a film festival in the United States founded in 2001 by independent filmmaker Nino Simone. The festival is an international competition dedicated to showcasing the art and talent of emerging filmmakers a ...
, The Grand Jury Prize at the WorldFest Houston International Film Festival, Award for Excellence from
New York Magazine
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and the Special Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival.
Plot
''Pâté'' is a dark story about an aristocratic family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. Amongst a landscape of desolation, two young children, Otto and his sister Vera, hunt daily for food. Meanwhile, at home in an abandoned ship, their delusional Mother clings onto the faded glory of their former aristocratic lives, aided by her shiftless Maid.
Full of memories, their life is a shadow of the past as each character copes with the grind of daily survival. When the malevolent Mister Griswald, the only man to survive the apocalypse, drops in for dinner, he sets in motion the final act - revealing the shocking secret of their survival.
Cast
* Jane Culley as the Mother
* Ty Arnold as Otto
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Samantha Browne-Walters as Vera
* Gary Swanson as Mr. Griswald
* Barbara Pitcher as the Maid
References
External links
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2001 films
2001 drama films
2001 short films
2000s English-language films
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