NFB Collection
The National Scream
198027 min 57 secFilm: Fiction, Animation
Direction: Robert AwadDavid Verrall
Production: David VerrallDerek Lamb
Script: Robert AwadDan ThatchukMichel Choquette
Produced by the NFB with the participation of the Canadian Unity Information Office.
A tongue-in-cheek look at Canada and Canadians. The National Scream explains how and why the beaver became the country's symbol. This lively satire uses animation and a pseudo-documentary style to depict Canada's search for a national identity.
Availability
Other versions
Subject categories
- Canada - Images of a Country > IdentityNational Emblems
Credits
- director
- Robert Awad
- David Verrall
- producer
- David Verrall
- executive producer
- Derek Lamb
- script
- Robert Awad
- Dan Thatchuk
- Michel Choquette
- camera
- Savas Kalogeras
- Andreas Poulsson
- Don Virgo
- Roger Rochat
- sound
- Jacques Drouin
- Yves Gendron
- Joseph Champagne
- Bev Davidson
- editing
- Robert Awad
- sound editing
- André Galbrand
- re-recording
- Hans Peter Strobl
- Adrian Croll
- animation
- John Weldon
- Robert Doucet
- Meilan Lam
- Jean-Michel Labrosse
- music
- Michel Choquette
- cast
- Steve Bloomer
- Eugène Bélec
- Winnie Gosselin
- Évelyn Régimbald
- Elwy Yost
Awards
- Certificate of Merit - Category: Social ConcernsInternational Film Festival