NFB Collection
Nightangel
198618 min 41 secFilm: Animation, Experimental
Direction: Jacques DrouinBretislav Pojar
Production: Robert ForgetVera Henzlova (Kratky Film)
Co-produced by the NFB and Kratky Film, Prague.
A seamless blend of puppet animation and the pinscreen technique is used in this evocative, romantic story of a man's obsession with a mysterious and benign spirit. When tragedy befalls him, he finds refuge in the love this nightangel has shown him. Film without words.
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Subject categories
- People with disabilities > Blind and Visually Impaired People
- Media Education > Film AnimationFilm and Video Production
- Arts Education > Visual Arts
Credits
- director
- Jacques Drouin
- Bretislav Pojar
- producer
- Robert Forget
- Vera Henzlova
- camera
- Vladimir Malik
- Miroslav Kuchar
- animation
- Jacques Drouin
- re-recording
- Ivo Spali
- music
- Michael Kocab
Awards
- Silver Toucan - Category: Best Short Film of the Festival (Tied with Cidadao Jatoba by Maria Luiza Aboim)Festival international de cinéma, télévision et vidéo / FESTRIO
- Animation Award - with a cash prize of 75$USHumboldt International Film Festival
- Los Angeles Film Critic's Award (Tied with Drawing on My Mind by Bob Kurtz) - award sponsored by Eastman Kodak and accompanied by 2,500$ worth of film stockInternational Animation Celebration
- Second prize - Category: 15 to 30 minutes films - with a cash prize of 100$USInternational Animation Celebration
- Crystal Apple Award - Category: Human Relations / Physically DisabledNational Educational Media Network Competition
- Best Animation Film Award - with a cash prize of 100$USIMAGE Film and Video Festival
- Certificate of Merit "Summa cum laude"Medikinale / International Medical and Scientific Film Festival - Prix Leonardo
- Special Jury AwardInternational Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA
- Award given to the Best Film over 15 minutesWorld Festival of Animated Film
- Special Grand Prize given by the Statens Film Central (Danish Government Film Office) for the Best Film of the Festival - with a cash prize of 35,000DKRInternational Film Festival