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A Child in His Country
196713 min 25 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Pierre Moretti
Production: Jacques BobetRené Jodoin
Script: Jacques Bobet
A childhood fantasy where dreams carry a boy far to adventure. It is an animated film in a contemporary style, employing drawn backgrounds, inserts of photographs, and successions of the same pictures to suggest movement. The most animated figure is the boy. He arrives in Canada on an ocean liner and is, in turn, a hunter of polar bear, a cowboy, a hockey star, and a swimmer.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Animation and Allegory on MulticulturalismChildrenCultural Diversity
- Children and Youth > Cultural Groups
Credits
- director
- Pierre Moretti
- producer
- Jacques Bobet
- script
- Jacques Bobet
- executive producer
- René Jodoin
- photography
- Murray Fallen
- Wayne Trickett
- sound
- Ron Alexander
- editing
- Yves Leduc
- Karl Duplessis
- re-recording
- Ron Alexander
- music
- Pierre F. Brault
Awards
- Special Mention - Category: Animation FilmsGenie Awards
- Award for the experimental constitution of an expressive new effortInternational Children's Film Festival