NFB Collection
Not So Different
19856 min 48 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Don Arioli
Production: Keith PackwoodFloyd Elliott
Produced by National Film Board of Canada for Multiculturalism Canada.
This delightful, humorous fable is set in the Land of Same, where the law of the land is SAMENESS. Everyone has to behave the same, wear the same clothes, live in the same houses, drive the same cars, eat the same food -- you name it, it's the SAME! Everything runs, smoothly (although it's a bit dull!), until the arrival of some DIFFERENT people, causing a wave of differentness to spread across the land. So the law is changed to DIFFERENTNESS. Things aren't dull any more, but life is chaotic! Eventually a meeting is held to vote on SAME OR DIFFERENT. The outcome? Well, see for yourself -- it's not the same -- but not so different...
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Cultural Diversity
- Social Issues > Cultural GroupsIndividual in Society
- Civics/Citizenship > Citizen ResponsibilitiesHuman Rights
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Parenting
- Social Studies > Social Policies and Programs
Credits
- director
- Don Arioli
- animation
- Don Arioli
- producer
- Keith Packwood
- executive producer
- Floyd Elliott
Awards
- Award of Merit - Category: Sound/SlidesItinerant - AMTEC
- Silver Screen AwardUS International Film and Video Festival