to as his "office". He did not hear the speech because his friends and other bar patrons were cheering loudly and congratulating him after the film was announced as the winner. Landreth hoped that winning the Academy Award would enable him to convince theatre operators to include Ryan preceding a full-length film in order to obtain greater mainstream exposure. In Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) bought first window broadcast rights for Ryan and Alter Egos, and Alliance Atlantis bought second window rights. The CBC had already broadcast both films on The Passionate Eye and Rough Cuts. The NFB also signed agreements with specialty channels in Canada, the United States, and Europe to broadcast the film. Ryan was in the 2004 collection of the Animation Show of Shows, and was included in the 11th volume and second box set it released. Legacy Owing to the film's popularity, Larkin "found himself gaining unusual fame for someone who supposedly lived in obscurity". Larkin stated that because of the film, "there are millions of people out there wanting to see another Ryan Larkin film". Landreth established a fund at the Old Brewery Mission for Larkin who in 2005 began working on an animated film titled Spare Change about his panhandling on the streets of Montreal based on poems he had recently written. It was a collaboration with composer Laurie Gordon of the band Chiwawa, who would be responsible for the film's music and voices. When he began the project, he continued to panhandle on Saint-Laurent Boulevard, stating that "I can't disappoint my clientele". He was one of the panhandlers interviewed for the documentary film Chez Schwartz about the delicatessen. In 2006, Larkin signed a contract with MTV Canada to create three five-second bumpers that aired on 25 and 26 December 2006. They were the only channel IDs to be broadcast by MTV Canada on those days. He died on Valentine's Day 2007 as a result of lung cancer that had metastasized to his brain. The ten-minute animation Spare Change was completed alone by Gordon, and premiered in a double bill with All Together Now at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal on 8 October 2008. The two films were shown together in theatres throughout Canada that month. Gordon and Nicola Zavaglia later released Ryan's Renaissance, a documentary film about Larkin and Spare Change. Robinson stated in his book Ballad of a Thin