“SHE WHO MUST BURN” wins inaugural BARRY CONVEX AWARD
August 4, 2015 
The Winner of Spectacular Optical’s 2015 Barry Convex Award for Best Canadian Feature or Co-Production is Larry Kent’s SHE WHO MUST BURN.
Larry Kent’s SHE WHO MUST BURN from Andrew Dunbar on Vimeo.
We selected Larry’s film for a number of reasons. Whether with words or imagery, Larry’s films have always been ferocious, and critically engaged with the culture he creates them in. As a filmmaker who actually worked in the Canadian tax shelter era canadian pharmacy viagra generic that this award references, Larry is a bridge between the generation of uncompromising veterans of Canadian film, and the emerging filmmakers who are making their mark on this landscape now. His frequent collaborations with young West Coast filmmakers Shane Twerdun, Andrew Moxham and Andrew Dunbar only reinforces this connection further, and so in giving Larry this award, we are also recognizing the levitra tab 20mg many talents of his collaborators, who will carry Canadian genre film into the next generation.
The Barry Convex Award is a physical statuette featuring artwork by Canadian genre artist Gary Pullin, as well as a $1000 cash prize, funded by the Paul A. Ray Memorial Fund. Larry was presented with his award at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal on August 3rd, 2015. Check out the photos of the presentation by King-Wei Chu below!
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About the author:
Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books drug hair loss propecia including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
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