Award joy for city park film.

A FILM shot in Birmingham's Handsworth park Handsworth Park (originally Victoria Park) is a park in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England. It lies 10 minutes by bus from the centre of Birmingham and comprises 63 acres (25 hectares) of landscaped grass slopes, including a large boating lake and a smaller pond fed by the about a girl who goes missing has won an award at a European film festival.

Joy depicts a reconstruction of a teenager's last walk through the park.

Local people, rather than professional actors, were used throughout the seven-minute feature which has scooped the Rotterdam International Film Festival PRIX UIP UIP Usual interstitial pneumonia, see there prize.

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Date:	Feb 27, 2008
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