El Toro
Romance and tragedy bind eight siblings who work with their parents at their family-run truck stop diner deep in the entrails of 1960’s industrial Saint-Boniface. El Toro no longer exists between the old Canada Packers and the Union Stock Yards but does very much so in the minds of the surviving DeGagné brood.
The film El Toro rebuilds the walls, stools, and atmosphere of the restaurant, recreating a surreal, rich, and imaginative world, evoking a lost time and place through the lens of memory, nostalgia and love. And yes, animals were consumed, filmed, drawn, and animated in this hybrid documentary.
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English | 44 MIN | 2018
Experimental Documentary
Written, Directed and Produced by Danielle Sturk
Produced with the generous support of The Canada Council For The Arts, the Manitoba Arts council and the Winnipeg Arts Council.
Nominations & Awards
Yorkton Film Festival Golden Sheaf Award for Best Experimental Film
HOT DOCS Top 5 Audience Choice Mid-length International Film (#3)
Vox Popular Film Festival Top 10 Audience Choice
Directors’ Guild of Canada Allan King Award Nomination for Documentary Excellence
HOT DOCS Award Nomination for Best Mid-Length International Documentary
Broadcast
CBC Absolutely Manitoba, CBC Documentary Channel
Festival Screenings