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Strings
199110 min 19 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Wendy Tilby
Production: David VerrallDouglas MacDonaldBarrie McLean
Script: Wendy Tilby
This film paints a vivid portrait of two strangers intimately linked by the shared ceilings, floors and plumbing of their apartments. When an unexpected and pressing problem arises, however, these comfortable connections are compromised. Produced using a painstaking animation process that involves painting on glass and stop-action filming, Strings is a film as beautiful as it is haunting. Film without words.
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Subject categories
- Seniors > Interpersonal Relationships
- Media Education > Film Animation
- Health/Personal Development > Human Growth and Development
- Arts Education > Music
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Relationships
Credits
- director
- Wendy Tilby
- script
- Wendy Tilby
- animation
- Wendy Tilby
- producer
- David Verrall
- executive producer
- Douglas MacDonald
- Barrie McLean
- sound editing
- Les Halman
- Don Ayer
- music
- Chris Crilly
Awards
- Honorable MentionAtlantic International Film Festival
- First Place - Category: F (Longer than 5 minutes but within 15 minutes)International Animation Festival
- Genie Award for Best Animated ShortGenie Awards
- SOFTIMAGE Prize - Best Canadian Film Award for Best Use of Music and/or SoundInternational Animation Festival
- Honorable MentionHumboldt International Film Festival
- Gold Apple Award - Category: Cultural / Sexual IdentityNational Educational Media Network Competition
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Animation Itinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Gold Medal - with a cash prize of 50$USExpo of Short Film and Video
- First Prize - Category: Animation - with a cash prize of 300$US (tied with Choreography for a Copy Machine)Annual College and Independent Film and Video Festival
- Bronze Plaque Award - Category: Arts and Culture - animation International Film and Video Festival
- Press Prize awarded by the journalists present in AnnecyInternational Animated Film Festival
- First Prize - 10 to 40 minutes Films Category: C (ex aequo with The Dream of a Ridiculous Man)International Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA