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Happy News for 'Happy Poet'

By Kimberley Jones, August 2, 2010, 3:33pm, Picture in Picture

Michael Moore sure does like Austin comedies. A year after ATX films Winnebago Man and Harmony and Me went over big at Moore's Traverse City Film Festival, Paul Gordon's The Happy Poet walked away with a top prize at this weekend's fest.

The Happy Poet, which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in March, won the Fiction Jury Prize for Emerging Talent, sharing the award with another SXSW '10 alum, Lena Durham's Tiny Furniture.

In another spot of good news for the film, The Happy Poet will play this September at Venice Days, an independents sidebar to the prestigious Venice International Film Festival (where Robert Rodriguez's hotly anticipated Machete will premiere as the opening night midnight movie). The Happy Poet is the only American film to enjoy official selection status at Venice Days this year.

For a recent interview with Happy Poet producer and costar Jonny Mars, go here.