When the Day Breaks
| When the Day Breaks | |
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| Directed by | Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis |
| Produced by | David Verrall & Barrie Angus McLean |
| Music by | Judith Gruber-Stitzwer |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
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| Country | Canada |
When the Day Breaks is a Canadian animated short co-directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1999, the 9 min. 40 sec. film garnered numerous awards, including the Genie Award for Best Animated Short, the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, TIFF – Best Canadian Short, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival – Animated Short, and the Banff Television Festival, Best Animation Program.[1][2] It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, losing to another animated short produced in Montreal: Aleksandr Petrov's The Old Man and the Sea.[3]
To create the film, directors used pencil and paint on photocopies to achieve a textured look suggestive of a lithograph or a flickering newsreel.[4]
References
- ↑ "When the Day Breaks". Awards list. National Film Board of Canada. 1999. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
- ↑ Punter, Jennie (Summer 1999). "Wendy Tilby's When the Day Breaks wins at Cannes". Take One. Toronto: Wyndham Wise.
- ↑ Hays, Matthew (March 23, 2000). "Animating Oscar". Montreal Mirror. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
- ↑ "International Festival of Audiovisual Programs". Retrieved 2009-07-04.