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in the late 1980s and early 1990s, including Joy Behar,

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, Sandra Shamas and Jenny Jones. The film premiered at the 1991 Festival of Festivals. Singer's comedy film '' True Confections'' was also screened at the same festival, making her the first filmmaker in the festival's history to have both a documentary and a narrative fiction film screened at the festival in the same year. The film subsequently received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the

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in 1992.H. J. Kirchhoff, "French-Canadian films steal Genie show: Cronenberg's Naked Lunch leads the pack with 11 nominations". ''

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'', October 14, 1992.

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