The 19th HollyShorts Film Festival has handed out its awards, including the Grand Prix Best Short Award to We Were Meant To, an honor that comes with a $60,000 prize from Panavision. Tari Wariebi d…
, meanwhile, “follows a boy called Daniel, who travels to a dark destination known as the smokehouse.”tells the short of Jary, a Philippine boy born with a cleft palate. His mother and father rejected him at birth because of his facial difference, but his older sister Jessa stepped in to take a caring and parental role in his life. The film follows Jary as he undergoes his first surgery to repair his palate, an operation facilitated by the nonprofit Smile Train.
The HollyShorts awards ceremony was moved up a day to Saturday to avoid the onslaught of Hurricane Hilary.
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