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When filmmaker Frances "Frankie" Shaw won the 2015 Sundance Film Festival's Short Film Jury Award for her 9-minute piece "SMILF," she was in Los Angeles, and working on another project.
"It was so surprising and something I wasn't expecting," Shaw said during a telephone call from L.A. "They called me and asked if I could fly back, but I was shooting a pilot for a TV show and working with a minor, so we were working with her schedule."
Sundance asked her to make an acceptance speech video, something she enjoyed doing.
"I was able to include my son Isaac Love in the video, which was great because I was inspired to start making films after he was born," she said. "It was great that he was part of the acceptance speech."
The award was just a primer for what was to come later, because "SMILF" is headed to Showtime.
Read the full story at http://www.parkrecord.com/scene/ci_29083112/sundance-winner-smilf-headed-showtime .