{"id":79174,"date":"2023-03-08T08:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T08:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/anthony-shims-riceboy-sleeps-wins-toronto-critics-award-for-best-canadian-film\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T08:10:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T08:10:19","slug":"anthony-shims-riceboy-sleeps-wins-toronto-critics-award-for-finest-canadian-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/08\/anthony-shims-riceboy-sleeps-wins-toronto-critics-award-for-finest-canadian-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Shim\u2019s \u2018Riceboy Sleeps\u2019 wins Toronto critics\u2019 award for finest Canadian movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anthony Shim says it hasn\u2019t totally settled in but that his semi-autobiographical movie \u201cRiceboy Sleeps\u201d has received one of many greatest movie prizes in Canada.<\/p>\n

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On Monday evening, the Toronto Film Critics Association<\/a> honoured \u201cRiceboy Sleeps\u201d with the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo have the members of the Toronto Film Critics Association select our film does feel quite surreal,\u201d Shim, a director and actor, stated in a telephone interview Tuesday morning from Chicago.<\/p>\n

The movie, a couple of Korean single mom who strikes to Canada, was shot within the Vancouver space and in South Korea. It premiered at each the Toronto International Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival, and examines the stresses of rising up between two cultures.<\/p>\n

It was included in TIFF\u2019s 2022 Canada\u2019s Top Ten, and its choice for the Critics Association\u2019s award comes with $100,000, thought-about the richest annual movie prize in Canada.<\/p>\n

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Shim says he\u2019s grateful for the financial achieve, nevertheless he hasn\u2019t had a second to cease and take into consideration his plans for the cash.<\/p>\n

He notes he at the moment as two movies in early growth, one being an unique piece and the opposite an adaptation of a novel.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just doing my best and kind of squeezing a little bit of time here and there, when I can, to keep the ball rolling on those projects,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

As runners-up, Clement Virgo who directed \u201cBrother\u201d and David Cronenberg, director of \u201cCrimes of the Future,\u201d every obtained $5,000.<\/p>\n