Leon the Pig Farmer is a 1993

1993 in film

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 comedy about a Jewish estate agent

Estate agent

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 in London

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 who discovers that thanks to an artificial insemination

Artificial insemination

Artificial insemination, or AI, is the process by which sperm is placed into the reproductive tract of a female for the purpose of impregnating the female by using means other than sexual intercourse or natural insemination...

 mishap, his real father owns a pig farm in Yorkshire

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. It was directed by Vadim Jean

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Vadim Jean is an award-winning English film director, producer, and executive producer.After graduating with a degree in History from Warwick University, he found work on Mike Figgis' Stormy Monday, before establishing his own production company in 1989 covering a wide variety of subjects, from...

 and Gary Sinyor

Gary Sinyor

Gary Sinyor is an award-winning film director, producer, and writer. He was raised in a Sephardic Jewish upbringing, before going on to the National Film and Television School...

, and starred Mark Frankel

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Mark Frankel was an English actor.- Life and career :Frankel was born to David Lionel Frankel and Grace Frankel on the 13th of June 1962 and was raised in London. Beginning his acting career at 10, Frankel performed on stage until age 16, when he broke from the theater...

 in the title role.

The film won the FIPRESCI International Critics' Prize at the 1992 Venice Film Festival

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, while its directors won the Best Newcomer award from the London Critics' Circle, the Most Promising Newcomer at the Evening Standard British Film Awards

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, and the Chaplin Award for the best first feature from the Edinburgh International Film Festival

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