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Blackfly
19915 min 6 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Christopher Hinton
Production: William PettigrewDouglas MacDonaldBarrie McLean
Blackfly is a breakneck romp based on the song of the same title, written and sung by Canadian folk singer Wade Hemsworth, with back-up vocals by Kate and Anna McGarrigle. This animated film recounts Hemsworth's battles with this quintessential "critter" during a summer of surveying in Northern Ontario.
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Subject categories
- Music > Animation of folk songsFolk Music
- Animals > InsectsPests and Pest ControlStories
Credits
- music composer
- Wade Hemsworth
- singer
- Wade Hemsworth
- musical arrangement
- Kate McGarrigle
- Anna McGarrigle
- musician
- Wade Hemsworth
- Anna McGarrigle
- Kate McGarrigle
- Gilles Losier
- Pat Donaldson
- Peter Weldon
- Dane Lanken
- director
- Christopher Hinton
- animation
- Christopher Hinton
- colour rendering
- Nathalie Savoie
- colour rendering - assistant
- Marie-Josée Carrière
- Helga Schleeh
- camera
- Jacques Avoine
- Pierre Landry
- Raymond Dumas
- Lynda Pelley
- music recording
- Louis Hone
- foley artist
- Andy Malcolm
- music editor
- Julian Olson
- sound editor
- Jackie Newell
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- consultant
- Wade Hemsworth
- Peter Whalley
- unit administrator
- Carrol Smith
- producer
- William Pettigrew
- executive producer
- Douglas MacDonald
- Barrie McLean
Awards
- Best International Film AwardA.T.O.M. Awards for Short Educational Films & Videos
- Silver Apple AwardNational Educational Media Network Competition
- Red Ribbon Award - Category: AnimationItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: AnimationItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Second Prize - Category: Animated Short under 6 minutesInternational Children's Film Festival
- Silver Medal (Second Prize) - with a cash prize of 25$USExpo of Short Film and Video