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The Street
197610 min 12 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Caroline Leaf
Production: Guy GloverWolf Koenig
This award-winning animation film spares no feelings and minces no words. A poignant interpretation of a short story by Montréal author Mordecai Richler, it makes what is sometimes an embarrassingly frank statement about how many families respond to their old and infirm members. In soft simple washes of watercolour and ink, the filmmaker interprets reactions to a dying grandmother, capturing family feelings and distilling them into harsh reality.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language - Canada > Adaptations of Literary WorksCanadian Literature
- Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary WorksAnimation based on Literature
- Families > Aged ParentsAnimation on the FamilyHealth and Illness
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Jewish Community
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Aging/Death and Dying
- Diversity > Diversity in Communities
- English Language Arts > Quebec Literature
- Ethics and Religious Culture > Religious Diversity/Heritage
Credits
- director
- Caroline Leaf
- animation
- Caroline Leaf
- producer
- Guy Glover
- executive producer
- Wolf Koenig
- sound
- Ken Page
- sound editing
- Gloria Demers
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes
- voice
- Mort Ransen
- Vera Heitman
- Sarah Dwight
- John Hood
- Howard Ryshpan
Awards
- Le Cabri Award - Given by the Jury for Best SubjectFestival du dessin animé
- Le Bouquetin Award - Given by the Public for Best Animation- Category: Short FilmFestival du dessin animé
- Le Bouquetin Award - Given by the Jury for Best AnimationFestival du dessin animé
- Amer Golden Eye Award - Category: JudaismAnnual AMER Film Awards (The Association of Media Educators in Religion)
- Blue Ribbon Award - Category: Language ArtsItinerant - American Film and Video Festival
- Certificate for Outstanding AchievementGolden Gate Awards Competition & International Film Festival
- Special PrizeInternational Film Festival
- Grand Prize of the FestivalInternational Animation Festival
- Recreational Club Pena Zoiti Award for Best Animation FilmInternational Short Film Festival
- Learning Magazine A-V AwardLearning A-V Magazine
- Special Award given by the Ministry of Culture and Arts - Accompanied by a Cash Award of 40 Pahlavi Gold CoinsInternational Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults
- Special RecognitionAmerican Occupational Therapy Association Film Awards
- Silver Dolphin for the Best Film Between 3 and 11 minutes - ex-aequo with Le Paysagiste by Jacques DrouinInternational Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA
- Special Jury MentionInternational Festival of Short and Documentary Films
- First Prize - Bronze Statuette of St. Finbarr - Category: Animated FilmsCork Film Festival
- First PrizeFilm Festival of High Plains - Texas Tech. University
- Wendy Michener Award given to Caroline Leaf for her contribution to the art of animationGenie Awards
- Etrog for Best Animated FilmGenie Awards
- Chris Bronze Plaque International Film and Video Festival