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''Shoes Off!'' is a Canadian short comedy film, directed by
Mark Sawers Mark Sawers is a Canadian film director and writer. Best known for his feature films '' Camera Shy'' and '' No Men Beyond This Point'', he is also a four-time Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama for his films ''Stroke'' at the 13t ...
and released in 1998. The film stars David Lewis as Stuart, a man who becomes entranced with a woman ( Deanna Milligan) he meets in an elevator wearing a sexy pair of boots, but is too shy to talk to her. Some time later, he sees her again getting out of a taxi at a house party and decides to follow her in so he can finally meet her; however, his efforts are complicated by the hosts' "shoes off" policy, both because he has a hole in his sock and because he had paid more attention to the woman's boots than her face and thus struggles to identify who he's looking for.Craig MacInnes
"A short life in Cannes" (pt.2)
'' Vancouver Sun'', May 21, 1999.
The cast also includes
Kurt Max Runte Kurt Max Runte is a Canadian actor based in Vancouver, British Columbia.Michael D. Reid, "Making the cut". ''Victoria Times-Colonist'', January 24, 2005. He is most noted for his performance as Dale Milbury in the 2016 film ''Hello Destroyer'', for ...
and Marcus Hondro as other occupants of the elevator, Richard Side and Jane Sowerby as the couple hosting the party, and Ken Tremblett, Suzin Schiff, Michael Cram, J. Douglas Stuart, Deshka Penoff and Lesley Ewen as other party guests. The film features an operatic score composed by Don MacDonald, and performed by Colin Balzar and Alison Girvan.


Distribution

The film premiered at the
1998 Toronto International Film Festival The 23rd Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 10 to September 19, 1998. A total of 311 films were screened during the ten-day festival, commencing with the opening gala, ''The Red Violin''. Awards Programmes Gala Opening Nigh ...
, and was subsequently screened in the International Critics' Week program at the
1999 Cannes Film Festival The 52nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 12 to 23 May 1999. Canadian filmmaker, actor and author David Cronenberg was the Jury President. The Palme d'Or went to the French–Belgian film ''Rosetta'' by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. The festiv ...
. It received a brief theatrical run as the opening film to some Canadian screenings of the feature film '' Besieged''. It was subsequently broadcast by
CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...
as an episode of ''
Canadian Reflections ''Canadian Reflections'' is a Canadian independent short film television series which began on CBC Television in 1978. Premise This series features independent Canadian short films A short film is any motion picture that is short enough in ru ...
''.


Awards

The film was a
Genie Award The Genie Awards were given out annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to recognize the best of Canadian cinema from 1980–2012. They succeeded the Canadian Film Awards (1949–1978; also known as the "Etrog Awards," for scu ...
nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the
19th Genie Awards The 19th Genie Awards were held on February 4, 1999 to honour Canadian films released in 1998. It marked only the second time in the 1990s, after the 16th Genie Awards in January 1996, that the awards were held in the winter of the year ''followin ...
in 1999. At Cannes, the film won the Canal+ Award.Craig MacInnes
"Canadians win at Cannes, but Egoyan is shut out"
'' Vancouver Sun'', May 24, 1999.


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* {{IMDb title, 0169226 1998 films 1998 short films Films directed by Mark Sawers 1990s English-language films Canadian comedy short films 1990s Canadian films