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20178 min 46 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Torill Kove
Production: Lise Fearnley (Mikrofilm As)Tonje Skar Reiersen (Mikrofilm As)Michael Fukushima (National Film Board of Canada)
Co-produced by Mikrofilm and the National Film Board of Canada with support from the Norwegian Film Institute, Fritt Ord Foundation and the Audio and Visual Fund.
In her latest animated short, Academy Award®-winning director Torill Kove explores the beauty and complexity of parental love, the bonds that we form over time, and the ways in which they stretch and shape us.
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Subject categories
- Families > Adoption and Foster CareInterpersonal Relationships
- English Language Arts > Children's Stories/Fables
- Media Education > Film Animation
- Health/Personal Development > Healthy RelationshipsHuman Growth and Development
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Parenting
Credits
- director
- Torill Kove
- animation
- Torill Kove
- Josefine Hannibal
- backgrounds
- Torill Kove
- clouds consultant
- Anne Ashton
- colour consultant
- Anne Ashton
- compositing
- Kristian Pedersen
- Cathinka Tanberg
- assistant animator
- Sunniva Fluge Hole
- technical consultant
- Andreas Paleologos
- original music
- Kevin Dean
- trumpet
- Kevin Dean
- piano
- Jeff Johnston
- percussion
- Michel Lambert
- Greg Ritchie
- recording engineer
- Jack Kelly
- sound design
- Luigi Allemano
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Karla Baumgardner
- mix
- Jean Paul Vialard
- editing
- Simen Gengenbach
- on-line
- Serge Verreault
- technical team
- Steve Hallé
- Randall Finnerty
- Candice Desormeaux
- Éloi Champagne
- administration
- Dominique Forget
- Rosalina Di Sario
- Victoire-Émilie Bessette
- Jon Montes
- producer
- Lise Fearnley
- Tonje Skar Reiersen
- Michael Fukushima
- production baby
- Stian Skar Skuterud
- commissioning editor
- Kari Moen Kristiansen
- senior advisor production
- Bjorn Arne Odden
- Fridrik Mar
Awards
- Short Animation Film AwardFestival Internacional de Cine Para Ninos - La Matatena
- Catbus Kids Jury Prize: Best Animated Short FilmChildren's Film Festival
- Honorable Mention- AnimationSalute Your Shorts Festival
- Special Prize of HIROSHIMAInternational Animation Festival