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Penguins Behind Bars
200323 min 6 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Janet Perlman
Production: Judith Gruber-Stitzer (Hulascope Studio Inc.)Janet PerlmanMarcy PageDavid Verrall
Script: Derek LambJanet Perlman
Produced by Hulascope Studio Inc. for Cartoon Network in association with the National Film Board of Canada.
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Doris, a beautiful young penguin from a loving family, meets Charlie Abaloney, a flashy, big-breaked, small-time gangster. Charlie sweeps her off her flippers and hoodwinks her into helping him with a heist. The caper goes sour and Doris is left holding the bag, a bag of stolen pearls! Now she has to serve time in a maximum security penguintentiary teeming with sleazy birds!
Can she survive in this concrete jungle? Will she stay afloat in a sea of savage penguins? Can she clear her good name and turn the tables on Charlie?
Penguins Behind Bars follows in the great tradition of prison movies from an earlier era--a dramatic story starring an innocent inmate who finds herself in a jail full of classic characters.
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Subject categories
- Law and Crime > Prisons and Prisoners
Credits
- director
- Janet Perlman
- writer
- Derek Lamb
- Janet Perlman
- storyboard
- Derek Lamb
- Janet Perlman
- original music
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- sound supervision
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- voice
- Lili Taylor
- Patricia Collins
- Alberta Watson
- Catherine Fitch
- Patricia Gage
- Craig Francis
- Maria Vacratsis
- Richard Clarkin
- Dan Lett
- Sonja Ball
- colour design
- Marielle Guyot
- backgrounds
- Marielle Guyot
- animator
- Louise Johnson
- Les Drew
- Magnus Hjerpe
- Yann Tremblay
- Luigi Allemano
- Zhigang Wang
- Janet Perlman
- additional animation
- Shawn Chacko
- Scott Collie
- Joe Giamppopa
- Kevin Micaleff
- Troy Quane
- Yeon-Tae Choi
- Ron Chevarie
- Trevor Deanne-Freeman
- Ed Krahn
- Paul Motta
- Michelle Heo
- animation assistant
- Serene El-haj Daoud
- Diane Obomsawin
- Gina Georgousis
- Annie Dubois
- Roslyn Schwartz
- digital ink
- Geneviève Brisson
- Marc Girard
- Claudie Pilote
- Renée-Anique Francoeur
- Chantal Juteau
- paint
- Geneviève Brisson
- Marc Girard
- Claudie Pilote
- Renée-Anique Francoeur
- Chantal Juteau
- animation technical supervisor
- Luigi Allemano
- digital imaging consultation
- Susan Gourley
- architectural layouts
- Jean-Pascal Richard
- track breakdown
- Luigi Allemano
- Peter Stephenson
- line test
- Luigi Allemano
- Peter Stephenson
- casting
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- foley artist
- Andy Malcolm
- Karla Baumgardner
- foley assistant
- Stefan Fraticelli
- voice recording
- Tod Chapman
- Timothy Muirhead
- Daniel Lagacé
- sound editing
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- music recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- mix
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- musical arrangement
- Dave Gossage
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- off-line
- Phyllis Lewis
- technical support
- Eli Krantzberg
- final mix
- Jean Paul Vialard
- Shelley Craig
- production coordinator
- Sylvie Rochon
- Daniela Pinna
- Richard Lesage
- administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- producer
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- Janet Perlman
- Marcy Page
- David Verrall
- executive producer
- Janet Perlman
Awards
- Platinum Award - Category: Independent Short Subject - Films & VideoWorldFest - International Film Festival
- Chris Statuette - Category: Entertainment International Film and Video Festival
- Award for Best Animated ShortBAM International Children's Film Festival
- Pulcinella Award - Best TV Movie of the YearCartoons on the Bay