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The Girl With the Red Beret
20235 min 46 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Janet Perlman
Production: Marc Bertrand (National Film Board of Canada)Christine Noël (National Film Board of Canada)Julie Roy (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Janet Perlman
A production of the National Film Board of Canada.
A girl encounters an array of colourful, extravagant characters during a wild ride on the Montreal metro. As she travels from station to station, and winter turns into spring, her increasingly strange and surprising journey includes random appearances by furniture movers, mounted police, a pickpocket, some singing nuns, a clown, several famous Montreal personalities, and much more. This joyful, heartwarming animated film captures the city in all its vitality, creativity and diversity, to the tune of Kate and Anna McGarrigle’s timeless hit “Complainte pour Ste-Catherine.” Whimsical, funny and full of good cheer, The Girl with the Red Beret celebrates harmony and togetherness in its lighthearted look at the vagaries of taking public transit. The film borrows from elements of everyday life to create an irresistible celebration of the city.
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Subject categories
- Law and Crime > CrimesSecurity forces
- Music > Quebec Musicians
- Social Issues > Urban Life
- Transportation > Urban Transit
- Languages > English as a Second LanguageFrench as a Second Language
- English Language Arts > Quebec Literature
Credits
- writer
- Janet Perlman
- director
- Janet Perlman
- animator
- Janet Perlman
- producer
- Marc Bertrand
- musical adaptation
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- sound design
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- lead vocals
- Lily Lanken
- Martha Wainwright
- voice of the metro
- Michèle Deslauriers
- choir
- Jasmine Bleile
- David E. Cronkite
- Toby Harper-Merrett
- Dane Lanken
- Lily Lanken
- Sylvan Lanken
- Emilie Kathleen Marzinotto
- Anna McGarrigle
- Jane McGarrigle
- Michèle Mercure
- Morgan Moore
- Chaim Tannenbaum
- Peter Weldon
- musician
- Jennifer Bell
- Yvan Belleau
- Robert Kuster
- François Lafontaine
- Anna McGarrigle
- Morgan Moore
- Fiachra O'Regan
- Christopher Smith
- Chaim Tannenbaum
- Jocelyn Tellier
- Joel Zifkin
- music recording
- François Arbour
- music re-recording
- François Arbour
- foley
- Karla Baumgardner
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- voice recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- location recording
- Martyne Morin
- re-recording
- Jean Paul Vialard
- online editing
- Serge Verreault
- titles
- Cynthia Ouellet
- technical coordinator
- Lyne Lapointe
- Mira Mailhot
- Esther Viragh
- technical director
- Éric Pouliot
- technical specialist - animation
- Yannick Grandmont
- studio coordinator
- Rose Mercier-Marcotte
- Laetitia Seguin
- administrator
- Karine Desmeules
- senior production coordinator
- Josiane Bernardin
- Camila Blos
- legal counsel
- Peter Kallianiotis
- music rights clearance
- Sylvia Mezei
- marketing
- Geneviève Bérard
- line production
- Mélanie Boudreau Blanchard
- Anne-Marie Bousquet
- executive producer
- Christine Noël
- Julie Roy
Awards
- Best International Short FilmAnimation Festival
- Best Canadian Short FilmFestival International du film pour enfants (FIFEM)
- Honourable Mention for DGC Award for Best Canadian AnimationInternational Animation Festival