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TORONTO - Winnipeg movie maker Guy Maddin and Toronto-based animator and video artist Nick Fox-Gieg have won film awards at the South by Southwest festival in Texas.
Maddin nabbed the jury award for best experimental short film for "Night Mayor," which is described as a "comical fantasia" about a Bosnian immigrant in Winnipeg.
And Fox-Gieg won the jury award for best animated short for "The Orange," a humorous and surreal tale of the history of the citrus fruit.
"Night Mayor" was produced by Joe MacDonald of a Winnipeg branch of the National Film Board, which won a Web Award at the festival for its Waterlife Interactive site.
Canadian bands featured at this year's South by Southwest Festival, running through Sunday, include Broken Social Scene, Born Ruffians and Plants and Animals.
