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Concordia
Merchant Taylors’ School
Vaughn Stein (1998-2003)
has won a prestigious prize
at the Toronto Film Festival with his short film
Yussef Is
Complicated
. Shot at Taylors’ and starring Fifth Former
Rohan Popat and several other current MTS boys, it
won the People’s Choice Award for best short film in the
“TIFF Kids” section (the biggest children’s film event on
the international film festival circuit). The film tells the
story of an Iraqi boy at school in London who gets into
a schoolyard fight. Threatened with expulsion for his
behaviour, he then reveals in a presentation to the class
exactly why he is so complicated.
Short Filmwins
prize at Toronto
Film Festival