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Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room!
20016 min 58 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Vincent Gauthier
Production: David VerrallIsobel MarksTamara Lynch
Script: Sugith Varughese
Christopher is a terrific kid. He's cool, he's nice and he's smart. But he has one big problem... he's messy! His shoes smell funky, his fish bowl stinks... even the cockroaches can't stand it. In the chaos of Christopher's room, his fish rise up from their scummy bowl in protest. They enlist the help of a fastidious, well-connected cockroach. Together, the fish and the roaches hatch a plan that will change Christopher's life and his cleaning habits forever.
Christopher, Please Clean Up Your Room is part of the NFB's Talespinners collection. Created for children aged five to nine, Talespinners uses vibrant animation to bring popular stories from a wide range of cultural communities to the screen.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary WorksAnimation based on LiteratureChildren's LiteratureChildren's Stories
- Literature and Language - Canada > Adaptations of Literary WorksCanadian LiteratureChildren's Materials
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > African OriginsBlack CommunityChildren
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
- Science > Life Systems/Ecology
Credits
- director
- Vincent Gauthier
- animator
- Jo Meuris
- Vincent Gauthier
- additional character design
- Cilia Sawadogo
- assistant animator
- Shira Avni
- storyboard consultant
- Sheldon Cohen
- animation production supervisor
- Marie Renaud
- digital imaging specialist
- Normand Gauthier
- lead infographist
- Dominic Tremblay
- infographist
- Randall Finnerty
- Jon Gasco
- Itsik Romano
- assistant infographist
- Michel Provençal
- Michelle MacDonald
- Shira Avni
- layout assistant
- Samson McNulty
- screen adaptation writer
- Sugith Varughese
- narrator
- Itah Sadu
- picture editor
- José Heppell
- sound editor
- Don Ayer
- line test editor
- Michel Pelland
- original music composer
- Chris Crilly
- rapper
- Kooks
- guitar
- Rob MacDonald
- foley artist
- Monique Vézina
- assistant foley artist
- Martine Collin
- music recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Patrick Viegas
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Patrick Viegas
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- Jean Paul Vialard
- technical coordinator
- Richard Lesage
- Andrée Lachapelle
- studio administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Andrée Lachapelle
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- Isobel Marks
- producer
- Tamara Lynch
Awards
- BAMmie Award for Best Animated Short Film - Category: Line Drawn AnimationBAM International Children's Film Festival
- Writer's Guild Top Ten Award - Category: Children / PreschoolWriters Guild of Canada
- Bronze Plaque Award - Category: Children and Youth International Film and Video Festival
- Parent's Choice AwardInternational Children's Film Festival
- Jury Award - Animated Film 1st Place - with an award of 1,500$US worth of motion picture filmHollywood Black Film Festival