TORONTO - Anthony Shim says it hasn’t fully settled in yet that his semi-autobiographical film “Riceboy Sleeps” has won one of the biggest film prizes in Canada. On Monday night, the Toronto Film Critics Association honoured “Riceboy Sleeps” with the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. “To have the members of the Toronto Film Critics Association select our film does feel quite surreal,” Shim, a director and actor, said in a phone interview Tuesday morning from Chicago. The Toronto Film Critics Association is comprised of Toronto-based journalists and broadcasters who specialize in film criticism and commentary. “Movies like ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ are the reason the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award exists,” said Robin Mirsky, executive director of the Rogers Group of Funds.

Source: The Star March 07, 2023 17:01 UTC