Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! is a Canadian short film, directed by Sébastien Pilote and released in 2007.Pierre Barrette, "Portrait du capitalisme ordinaire". 24 images, Issue 154 (October–November 2011). p. 31. The film stars André Bouchard as a man in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region who has just lost his job after the closure of his employer, as he goes about his first day without the stable and predictable structure of a normal work day.Anabelle Nicoud, "Portrait: Sébastien Pilote". La Presse, August 5, 2007.
The cast also includes Gérald Pilote and Jean Wauthier.
The film premiered at the 2007 Locarno Film Festival, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for short films in 2007.Chris Knight, "TIFF goes peddling its celluloid bundle; Canadian Cinema; Top 10 includes Cronenberg, Maddin, Arcand". National Post, December 12, 2007. It won the awards for best short film at the 2007 Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Barcelona,"En bref - Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! honoré à Barcelone". Le Devoir, September 28, 2007. the 2007 Festival du nouveau cinéma,John Griffin, "Success feels 'super bien'". Montreal Gazette, October 21, 2007. and the 2008 Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois,Brendan Kelly, "Attendance up, so is winner; Rendez-Vous du cinema Quebecois. Up the Yangtze adds another prize to its cache". Montreal Gazette, February 25, 2008. and was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 10th Jutra Awards in 2008."La 10e soirée des Jutra". Ici Radio-Canada, March 9, 2008.
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