Leanne Pooley’s film Topp Twins-Untouchable Girls has won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award for Best Documentary at the Toronto International Film Festival.
“New this year is a Cadillac People’s Choice Award for Documentary and Midnight Madness. The Cadillac People’s Choice Award – Documentary goes to Leanne Pooley’s The Topp Twins. Fun, disarming and musically provocative, the Topp Twins are New Zealand’s finest lesbian country-and-western singers and the country’s greatest export since rack of lamb and the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. Runner-up is Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story. ”
Having received a standing ovation at its premiere the film garnered rave reviews in various publications including Variety.