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