A film is screened at Red Deer's Festival Hall during the Central Alberta Film Festival. (Supplied/CAFF)

By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

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Local short doc wins two awards at Central Alberta Film Festival

Oct 25, 2021 | 11:10 AM

A Red Deer filmmaker earned two awards over the weekend at the Central Alberta Film Festival.

The festival celebrates Canadian and international-made films.

Randy S. Kirk, for his film Poetry, War and the Dance of Life, was honoured with Audience Choice and Judges’ Choice awards in the category for Best Short Documentary.

The doc tells the story of 101-year-old Joseph Young, a Canadian poet, war veteran, and farmer.

Young served in the Second World War, losing friends and surviving serious injury. After returning to Canada, Young took up farming. Young lived in Red Deer and sadly passed away this past summer.

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“We screened films from around the world,” says Ranjit Mullakady, CAFF President. “It’s great that a local film is being recognized this way.”

Other audience choice awards went to Cheaters, Robbers and Outlaws by Red Deer director Jason Steele, and to Calgary director Warren Sulatycky for Jasmine Road.

Audience choice for Feature Documentary went to Living the Warrior Code, the story of Sylvan Lake ultra-distance triathlete Scott McDermott.

The Line, directed by Anthony Goertz of Edmonton, and Rationale, directed by C. Blake Evernden of Lethbridge, received awards from festival judges.

The next Central Alberta Film Festival is set for Oct. 19-22, 2022.