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In a brilliant move to put even more Canadian films in front of people's eyeballs, the curators of this year's Canada's Top Ten have been releasing the program selected shorts on YouTube so that anyone can watch them. The program, both feature and shorts, is getting better every year, a testament to the rising quality of Canadian film, and in this year's short program, one project in particular caught my attention.

O Negative peaked my interest from the title and little else. I hesitate to say too much about the plot. Astute viewers will pick up on the cues quickly enough (it took me all of 60 seconds to figure out what was going on) but writer/director Steven McCarthy, an actor who also stars as the man in the short, doesn't prov [Continued ...]...

You have to wear a lot of hats when making a short film and it appears that writer-director-actor Steven McCarthy is wearing all of his very well, indeed, based on the trailer for his Toronto selected short film O Negative.A young woman and the man who cares for her race to find shelter in a roadside motel so they can feed her addiction, in this intriguing, wordless story about desire and dependency. This is truly striking stuff from a promising new talent. Take a look at the trailer below....

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