The Forbidden Room Wins $100,000 Film Prize

Winnipeg’s Guy Maddin and his co-director Evan Johnson have won the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award for their project The Forbidden Room.

“I’m so happy and honoured,” Maddin said when claiming his prize. “$100,000 is enormously generous, thank you. With it, we hope to bring an NFL franchise to Winnipeg,” he joked.

Johnson added,…

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