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It is with great pleasure that we announce the nomination of LEAVE THEM LAUGHING for a Genie Award (that’s the Canadian Academy Award) for Best Documentary. The 31. Genie Awards Ceremony will be broadcast live from Ottawa on March 10 on CBC (The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). http://www.genieawards.ca/genie31/main.cfm (NOW – Toronto) “Incredibly touching, uplifting, heartbreaking and hilarious.” (Toronto Film Scene)
*Winner of Special Jury Award (Canadian Feature) and Top Ten Audience Award at Hot Docs 2010 (May 2010). * Invited to screen at Best of Hot Docs 2010 in Ottawa (June 2010). * Globe and [...] We are proud to announce that LEAVE THEM LAUGHING won two awards including BEST OF FESTIVAL for the upcoming 2011 International Disability “Picture this…film festival.” http://www.ptff.org/ptff_main/2011-festival.html Leave Them Laughing wins the Can/Am Grand Prix of Cinema Peoples’ Choice Award. Another accolade to Carla! Thank you Detroit and Windsor! We are absolutely delighted to inform all our Vancouver fans that Leave Them Laughing will be screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival on Oct.2 and 3. It is especially gratifying to have a film screen in our hometown festival. But Vancouver is also where Carla was born and spent the first 18 years [...] We are pleased to announce that LEAVE THEM LAUGHING will be screening at the Edmonton International Film Festival on Sunday, September 26 at 10:15 AM at Empire City Centre 9 – 10200 – 102 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta 3rd Floor, Edmonton City Centre. Attend if you can or send your friends. Festival screenings in Calgary and [...] Please join us for the World Premiere of LEAVE THEM LAUGHING in Toronto at Hot Docs (North America’s biggest international documentary film festival) followed by a reception (cash bar). Everyone is welcome! May 6 11:00pm – reception following screening “We’re here for a good time (not a long time)” is the awesome Trooper song that accompanies one of the most vibrant scenes of LEAVE THEM LAUGHING – and how appropriate it is! Grand Prizes: Spring has sprung.. We are proud to announce that Canada’s legendary band “Trooper” likes Leave Them Laughing and we love their music! Carla Zilbersmith, the hero of our film, had already rocked out to Trooper in high school. One of Trooper’s songs accompanies one of the film’s most beautiful, vibrant scenes. [...] Reason # 3 |
 Once a nationally-known performer of ballads, skits and self-parody, now fated by Lou Gehrig’s Disease to perish within months, the remarkable Carla Zilbersmith was diagnosed in 2007 and given less than four years to live. She will leave a teen-aged son, a few fans and students who adore her, and this 90-minute pre-mortem retrospective of a life lived fully, but far too fast. »More about "Leave Them Laughing"
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