NFB Collection
Snow Cat
199822 min 58 secFilm: Animation, Children's film
Direction: Sheldon Cohen
Production: Sheldon CohenKenneth HirschMarcy PageBarrie Angus McLeanDavid Verrall
Co-produced by Snow Cat Productions and the NFB in association with Channel 4 and with the participation of Shaw Children's Programming Initiative, Teletoon, CFCF-12, Knowledge Network, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit, the Government of Quebec Tax Credit Program and the Canada Council.
Elsie, who lives in a secluded house in the Far North, desperately wishes for a pet to keep her company. So the North Wind creates a magical cat out of snow--but with a warning: the cat must never enter Elsie's warm little house. Full of wisdom and sensitivity, this heartfelt story is perfect for a child's sensibility. But people of all ages will be drawn to this timeless tale of enduring love.
Filmmaker Sheldon Cohen teamed up with other artists who created an original technique especially for this film, notably Jeamy LaBrosse's innovative finger paint animation and Daniel Schorr's watercolour brushwork painted directly onto each frame. This film is inpired by the story from celebrated children's author Dayal Kaur Khalsa.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary WorksAnimation based on Literature
- Literature and Language - Canada > Adaptations of Literary Works
- Animals > PetsStories
- English Language Arts > CanLitChildren's Stories/Fables
Credits
- director
- Sheldon Cohen
- producer
- Sheldon Cohen
- Kenneth Hirsch
- Marcy Page
- finger-paint animation
- Jeami
- story adaptation
- Tim Wynne-Jones
- additional text
- Tim Wynne-Jones
- music
- Normand Roger
- sound track
- Normand Roger
- music collaboration
- Denis L. Chartrand
- voice
- Maureen Stapleton
- Chelsea Cohen
- assistant director
- Jeami
- animation
- Jeami
- Sheldon Cohen
- Les Drew
- camera
- Jeami
- painting on film
- Daniel Schorr
- additional painting
- Carlos Lillo-Baeza
- Elaine Gasco
- technical consulting
- Susan Gourley
- optical camera
- Michel Dubois
- Barry Wood
- backgrounds
- Elaine Gasco
- trace and paint supervision
- Leslie Bank-Satz
- trace and paint
- Éric Bolté
- Karen Hibbard
- Sylvain Lavoie
- animation camera
- Raymond Dumas
- Pierre Landry
- picture editing
- Sheldon Cohen
- voice recording
- Steve Schwarz
- Normand Roger
- additional sound editing
- Donald McWilliams
- Jean-Baptiste Roger
- Michèle Soucy
- final mix
- Serge Boivin
- Jean Paul Vialard
- post-production co-ordinator
- Grace Avrith
- Éric Barbeau
- program administrator
- Carrol Smith
- Gisèle Guilbault
- executive producer
- Barrie Angus McLean
- David Verrall
Awards
- Dick and Ada Bird Award for Best Animated Short Film - with a cash prize of 200$Flicks International Children Film Festival
- Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best AnimationYorkton Film Festival
- Bronze Plaque Award - Category: Education and Information International Film and Video Festival