Paul's quotes from an article...
Days after the awards, the controversy lingered as Paul Gross, whose film "Passchendaele" was the big Genie winner last year, said the awards made a mistake by ignoring Dolan's "beautiful film."
"The Genies make so little sense year after year after year I don't really understand," Gross said in Toronto. "I know they sort of defend it (by saying), 'That's the best process we have' well, the process isn't working, you need to fix it."
Gross went on to suggest that Quebec films be excluded from the Genies entirely.
"(This) is probably going to offend everybody but we are always combining French and English Canadian films together, and I think this is starting to make less and less sense because we don't go to each others' movies and until we start doing that we should probably cut ourselves adrift of each other in terms of awards ceremonies," he said.
"They have the Jutras and we don't have an English Canadian equivalent."
Whole article: Quebec phenom Xavier Dolan says he doesn't make films to get Genie Awards http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hBb9tGEgbx56Jize74heMJ9tz8pA
"The Genies make so little sense year after year after year I don't really understand," Gross said in Toronto. "I know they sort of defend it (by saying), 'That's the best process we have' well, the process isn't working, you need to fix it."
Gross went on to suggest that Quebec films be excluded from the Genies entirely.
"(This) is probably going to offend everybody but we are always combining French and English Canadian films together, and I think this is starting to make less and less sense because we don't go to each others' movies and until we start doing that we should probably cut ourselves adrift of each other in terms of awards ceremonies," he said.
"They have the Jutras and we don't have an English Canadian equivalent."
Whole article: Quebec phenom Xavier Dolan says he doesn't make films to get Genie Awards http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hBb9tGEgbx56Jize74heMJ9tz8pA