Shortt film scoops movie buff’s award at Cannes festival

COMEDIAN Pat Shortt, who elevated the jumbo breakfast roll to the dizzying heights of a number one single last year, was yesterday the toast of Cannes Film Festival.

His film Garage — which stars Shortt in the lead role as a misfit petrol station caretaker — has scooped the festival’s Cicae Art and Essai Cinema Prize, which is adjudged by alternative film buffs.

Backed by the brains behind the black comedy film Adam and Paul, Shortt is cast as Josie, a man who has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west.