-With this film, "Aspiration", Constant Mentzas signs his first professional film as a director.
-The film was a Jutra Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Film at the 5th Jutra Awards in 2003. It was subsequently screened at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Canadian Short Film; in his acceptance speech, Mentzas joked that he knew he had won the award when he realized that he was the only director of a Canadian short film who had been invited to the awards luncheon, before thanking the jury for paying attention to the film and not falling asleep.
