Keep a Modest Head | |
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Director: | Deco Dawson |
Producer: | Deco Dawson Catherine Chagnon Craig Trudeau |
Music: | Paul Schrofel |
Cinematography: | Deco Dawson |
Editing: | Deco Dawson |
Studio: | Endstop and Elsewhere Microclimat Films |
Runtime: | 19 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | French |
Keep a Modest Head (fr|Ne crâne pas sois modeste) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Deco Dawson and released in 2012.[1] The film is a tribute to Jean Benoît, a Canadian artist often credited as "the last surrealist".[1]
The film premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Short Film.[2] TIFF subsequently named the film to its year-end Canada's Top Ten list of short films.[3] The film was a shortlisted Canadian Screen Award finalist for Best Short Documentary Film at the 1st Canadian Screen Awards.[4]