And he pulled it off with a tour de force of light and sound. Rather than take his 20 minute piece and expand it to fill 90 minutes, he created a new Act One and Act Three to bookend a reworking of the original short in the center. Literally built around the short film of the same name which screened at festivals in 2004, triple threat writer/director/producer Sean Ellis did something ingenious. Of the 30 plus films I saw that week, "Cashback" tops the list. I still had about 20 films to go at the time, and "Cashback" raised the bar and became the benchmark against which all the others would have to be compared. I had a feeling I'd seen something special, that moment when you have to pause to take a breath and reflect on what you've experienced. I attended the world premiere of "Cashback" at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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