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A Monster's Calling
20015 min 26 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Louise Johnson
Production: David VerrallMichael Fukushima
Script: Louise Johnson
A Monster's Calling is a humorous animated film about the nature of personal anxieties, and body image. An "under-the-bed" monster wanders through a slumbering household, wreaking typical monster havoc. First a little girl, then an older brother, and finally the teenaged big sister. It's surprising, to both the monster and to us, what frightens each of them. A film without words.
Availability
Other versions
Subject categories
- Children and Youth > Adolescent Social BehaviourChild Rearing and Development
- Psychology and Psychiatry > AdolescentsDreams and ImaginationEmotional LifePsychological Processes
- Media Education > Body Image
- Diversity > Identity
- Health/Personal Development > Mental Health/Stress/Suicide
Credits
- story
- Louise Johnson
- direction
- Louise Johnson
- animation
- Louise Johnson
- digital animation
- Jean-Jacques Tremblay
- music
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- sound
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- picture editing
- Gordon Hashimoto
- sound editing
- Jackie Newell
- digital imaging specialist
- Normand Gauthier
- musician
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- Mathieu Gaulin
- Marc Villemure
- foley
- Karla Baumgardner
- Elana Medicoff
- recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Patrick Viegas
- re-recording
- Jean Paul Vialard
- post-production coordination
- Richard Lesage
- Andrée Lachapelle
- administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- producer
- Michael Fukushima
Awards
- Honorable Mention - Category: Education and Information International Film and Video Festival
- Special Mention - Category: Short FilmFestival International du film pour enfants (FIFEM)