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Deco Dawson, the 2012 recipient of the best short film prize at the Toronto International Film Festival, spoke with Free Press movie writer Randall King about his award-winning film Keep a Modest Head Friday morning.

The Winnipeg première of Dawson's playful portrait of surrealist Jean Benoit is at Cinematheque on Saturday as part of the WNDX Festival of the Moving Image, where it will be screened as part of a short film program titled Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea.

The film is distinct from Dawson’s past films in that it’s in vibrant colour and it took more than eight years to complete. Benoît, the last official member of the French Surrealist group, died in 2010 at the age of 88.

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