Battle of the Bulge (1991 film)

1991 Canadian short film

Battle of the Bulge

Directed by| Arlene Hazzan Green
Written by| Arlene Hazzan Green
Produced by| Arlene Hazzan Green
Starring| Suzanne Cyr
Deborah Kirshenbaum
Cinematography| Douglas Koch

Production
company

Artizzan Films

Release date

* 1991 (1991)

Running time

| 24 minutes
Country| Canada
Language| English

Battle of the Bulge is a Canadian comedy short film, directed by Arlene Hazzan Green and released in 1991.[1] An exploration of women's body image issues, the film stars Suzanne Cyr as Victoria, a woman whose obsession with thinness results in the creation of Vanna (Deborah Kirshenbaum), a significantly fatter alter ego who shows up to taunt Victoria whenever she looks in a mirror or eats food, with their battle of wills building until breaking out into an epic food fight.[2]

The film received selected film festival screenings, including winning the awards for Best Drama Under 30 Minutes and Best Script at the 1992 Yorkton Film Festival,[3] but was distributed primarily as an episode of Global Television Network's First Time Producers Series of short films by emerging directors.[4]

The film won the Genie Award for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 13th Genie Awards.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "Starting lineup". Toronto Star, August 1, 1992.
2. ^ "Canwest Global Showcase". Ottawa Citizen, October 20, 1991.
3. ^ "Smart documentary wins at Yorkton". The Globe and Mail, June 2, 1992.
4. ^ "Drama mines rich literary vein: Global's First Time Producers Series illustrates the impressive flexibility of the half-hour format while offering an authentic alternative to the usual commercial fare". The Globe and Mail, August 8, 1992.
5. ^ "Naked Lunch top fare at Genies: 8 awards for surrealistic fantasy, but some films ill-served by presenters". The Globe and Mail, November 23, 1992.

## External links

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* Battle of the Bulge at IMDb

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Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short

Theatrical Short
(1949–1996)|

* Who Will Teach Your Child? (1949)
* North Shore (1950)
* After Prison, What? (1951)
* Opera School (1952)
* L'Homme aux oiseaux (1953)
* Farewell Oak Street (1954)
* High Tide in Newfoundland1 (1955)
* Gold (1956)
* The Sceptre and the Mace (1958)
* Money Minters, The Quest and The Tall Country (1959)
* Royal River (1960)
* Universe (1961)
* Morning on the Lièvre (1962)
* Nahanni (1963)
* Anniversary (1964)
* Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate and Ça n'est pas le temps des romans (1968)
* Vertige and At Home (1969)
* A Matter of Fat and Blake (1970)
* Don't Knock the Ox (1971)
* This Is a Photograph (1972)
* Goodbye Sousa (1973)
* Along These Lines (1975)
* Cooperage (1976)
* Spartree (1977)
* L'Affaire Bronswik (1978)
* Nails (1980)
* The Strongest Man in the World (1981)
* Zea (1982)
* Elvis Gratton (1983)
* Ted Baryluk's Grocery (1984)
* Charade (1985)
* George and Rosemary (1988)
* Saeed (1991)
* Arrowhead (1994)
* Les fleurs magiques (1995)
* The Home for Blind Women (1996)

Live Action Short
(1986–present)|

* The Edit (1986)
* I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True (1987)
* The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989)
* In Search of the Last Good Man (1990)
* Battle of the Bulge (1992)
* The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1993)
* The Hangman's Bride (1997)
* When Ponds Freeze Over (1998)
* Moving Day (1999)
* Le P'tit Varius (2000)
* The Heart of the World (2001)
* I Shout Love (2002)
* Noël Blank (2003)
* Capacité 11 personnes (2004)
* Milo 55160 (2005)
* Le rouge au sol (2006)
* Après tout (2007)
* Next Floor (2008)
* Danse Macabre (2009)
* Savage (2010)
* Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011)
* Throat Song (2012)
* Noah (2013)
* Hole (2014)
* She Stoops to Conquer (2015)
* Mutants (2016)
* Fluffy (2017)
* Fauve (2018)
* Pick (2019)
* Black Bodies (2020)
* Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night (2021)
* Simo (2022)
* Motherland (2023)

Animated Short
(1968–present)|

* Un enfant...un pays1 (1968)
* Walking (1969)
* To See or Not to See (1970)
* Evolution (1971)
* Dans la vie... (1972)
* The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973)
* The Owl Who Married a Goose (1975)
* The Street (1976)
* Spinnolio (1977)
* Afterlife (1978)
* Every Child (1980)
* The Big Snit (1986)
* Get a Job (1987)
* The Cat Came Back (1989)
* Juke-Bar (1990)
* Strings (1992)
* Pearl's Diner (1993)
* La vieille dame et les pigeons (1997)
* Bingo (1998)
* When the Day Breaks (1999)
* Village of Idiots (2000)
* The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2001)
* The Hungry Squid (2002)
* Falling in Love Again (2003)
* Ryan (2004)
* cNote (2005)
* The Danish Poet (2006)
* Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)
* Isabelle au bois dormant (2008)
* Runaway (2009)
* Lipsett Diaries (2010)
* Romance (2011)
* Paula (2012)
* Subconscious Password (2013)
* Me and My Moulton (2014)
* The Ballad of Immortal Joe (2015)
* Blind Vaysha (2016)
* The Tesla World Light (2017)
* Animal Behaviour (2018)
* Giant Bear (2019)
* Hot Flash (2020)
* Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021)
* The Flying Sailor (2022)
* Where Rabbits Come From (2023)

1 These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.

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