# Shoes Off!

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{{Infobox film
| name           = Shoes Off!
| image          = 
| caption        = Film poster
| director       = [Mark Sawers](/source/Mark_Sawers)
| producer       = Leah Mallen
| writer         = Mark Sawers
| starring       = [David Lewis](/source/David_Lewis_(Canadian_actor))<br>[Deanna Milligan](/source/Deanna_Milligan)
| music          = Don MacDonald 
| cinematography = John Houtman
| editing        = Michelle Floyd
| studio         = Mark Sawers Productions
| distributor    = AtomFilms
| released       = {{film date|1998|09|13|[TIFF](/source/1998_Toronto_International_Film_Festival)}}
| runtime        = 13 minutes
| country        = Canada
| language       = English
| budget         = 
}}

'''''Shoes Off!''''' is a Canadian short comedy film, directed by [Mark Sawers](/source/Mark_Sawers) and released in 1998.<ref>Craig MacInnes, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93263459/ "A short life in Cannes"]. ''[Vancouver Sun](/source/Vancouver_Sun)'', May 21, 1999.</ref> The film stars [David Lewis](/source/David_Lewis_(Canadian_actor)) as Stuart, a man who becomes entranced with a woman ([Deanna Milligan](/source/Deanna_Milligan)) he meets in an elevator wearing a sexy pair of boots, but is too shy to talk to her. Some time later, he sees her again getting out of a taxi at a house party and decides to follow her in so he can finally meet her; however, his efforts are complicated by the hosts' "shoes off" policy, both because he has a hole in his sock and because he had paid more attention to the woman's boots than her face and thus struggles to identify who he's looking for.<ref name=macinnespt2>Craig MacInnes, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93263803/ "A short life in Cannes" (pt.2)]. ''[Vancouver Sun](/source/Vancouver_Sun)'', May 21, 1999.</ref>

The cast also includes [Kurt Max Runte](/source/Kurt_Max_Runte) and Marcus Hondro as other occupants of the elevator, [Richard Side](/source/Richard_Side) and Jane Sowerby as the couple hosting the party, and Ken Tremblett, Suzin Schiff, Michael Cram, J. Douglas Stuart, Deshka Penoff and [Lesley Ewen](/source/Lesley_Ewen) as other party guests.

The film features an operatic score composed by Don MacDonald, and performed by Colin Balzar and Alison Girvan.<ref name=macinnespt2/>

==Distribution==
The film premiered at the [1998 Toronto International Film Festival](/source/1998_Toronto_International_Film_Festival), and was subsequently screened in the [International Critics' Week](/source/International_Critics'_Week) program at the [1999 Cannes Film Festival](/source/1999_Cannes_Film_Festival).<ref>Glen Schaefer, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93262684/ "Sawers' Shoes Off! to Cannes"]. ''[The Province](/source/The_Province)'', May 7, 1999.</ref>

It received a brief theatrical run as the opening film to some Canadian screenings of the feature film ''[Besieged](/source/Besieged_(film))''.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93263241/ "Besieged"]. ''[The Province](/source/The_Province)'', June 4, 1999.</ref> It was subsequently broadcast by [CBC Television](/source/CBC_Television) as an episode of ''[Canadian Reflections](/source/Canadian_Reflections)''.<ref>Dana Gee, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93263296/ "Stay up late, sit back, kick Shoes Off!"]. ''[The Province](/source/The_Province)'', June 27, 1999.</ref>

==Awards==
The film was a [Genie Award](/source/Genie_Award) nominee for [Best Live Action Short Drama](/source/Canadian_Screen_Award_for_Best_Live_Action_Short_Drama) at the [19th Genie Awards](/source/19th_Genie_Awards) in 1999.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93263043/ "Major Genie nominees"]. ''[Vancouver Sun](/source/Vancouver_Sun)'', December 8, 1998.</ref>

At Cannes, the film won the Canal+ Award.<ref>Craig MacInnes, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93262739/ "Canadians win at Cannes, but Egoyan is shut out"]. ''[Vancouver Sun](/source/Vancouver_Sun)'', May 24, 1999.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0169226}}

Category:1998 films
Category:1998 short films
Category:Films directed by Mark Sawers
Category:1998 English-language films
Category:Canadian comedy short films
Category:1998 Canadian films
Category:English-language comedy short films

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