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, directed by

Stephanie Morgenstern Stephanie Morgenstern is a Canadian actress, filmmaker, and screenwriter for television and film. She has worked extensively on stage, film, and television in both English and French. Her most widely seen feature film credits have been '' The S ...

and

Mark Morgenstern Mark Morgenstern is a Canadians, Canadian film director, director, cinematographer and film editor, editor from Montreal, Quebec. Filmography (partial) * ''Refuge (documentary film), Refuge'' (2008), a documentary on rebels in Darfur by Alexandre ...

and released in 1995. The film was a

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nominee for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 17th Genie Awards in 1996.Christopher Harris, "Greyson's Lilies leads Genie field Film with all-male cast gets 14 nominations". ''

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'', October 17, 1996.

Plot

An actress, having just discovered she's been dumped, questions everything around her in the 15 minutes before the curtain comes up and she must take her place on stage. In the process, we get a glance at what goes on behind the scenes in your average theatre production.

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* 1995 short films 1995 films Canadian drama short films 1990s Canadian films {{1990s-Canada-film-stub