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Arkelope
19945 min 17 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Roslyn Schwartz
Production: Marcy PageBarrie McLean
While searching for diversion on television one evening, a middle-aged couple lights upon a nature documentary recounting the decline of the Arkelope. Though it has managed to survive a variety of natural disasters and calamities, the Arkelope has been reduced, through human indifference and short-sightedness, to a species whose very existence is in imminent danger. A seriously funny animated look at endangered species and human passivity in the face of the ubiquitous TV set.
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Subject categories
- Environment and Conservation > AllegoriesEndangered SpeciesSocial and Industrial Development
- Social Studies > Contemporary Issues
- Science > Life Systems/Ecology
Credits
- director
- Roslyn Schwartz
- animation
- Roslyn Schwartz
- producer
- Marcy Page
- executive producer
- Barrie McLean
- animation camera
- Lynda Pelley
- sound
- John Oswald
- Philip Strong
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- narrator
- Harry Hill
- voice
- Sheena Larkin
- Mark Trafford
Awards
- Camerio Award - Category: Best Short Film of the FestivalCarrousel international du film
- Gold Apple AwardNational Educational Media Network Competition
- Merit Award for Visual ImpartInternational Wildlife Film Festival
- Merit Award for InnovationInternational Wildlife Film Festival
- Special PrizeInternational TV-Films Festival