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The True Story of Sawney Beane
200510 min 39 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Elizabeth Hobbs
Production: Ken AndersonDavid Verrall (National Film Board of Canada)Katja Anderson (Red Kite Animations Limited)Michael Fukushima (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Elizabeth HobbsMark Jenkins
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in co-production with Red Kite Animations Limited in association with Scottish Screen.
In 16th-century Scotland, young Sawney Beane yearns to itch and scratch and buccaneer. So he bids farewell to his parents and their life of honest toil.
Forty years on, Mr. Beane croaks his dying wish to Betty, his wife. "Go and find our lost son." And so Betty strikes off on her quest across the land, with the family savings in a hankie and a secret suspicion in her heart.
The True Story of Sawney Beane reveals what really happened to the infamous Scottish cannibal. Not only was he the vilest felon in the kingdom of King James VI, he was also a son, beloved of Betty. The story, brought to life with charcoal and soft washes of colour, is written and animated by filmmaker Elizabeth Hobbs. It is narrated in actress Sheila Donald's rich brogue and scored by Normand Roger.
Technique: charcoal and watercolour on paper.
Availability
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Subject categories
- Foreign Countries > Great Britain
- Literature and Language > Legends, Myths, and Tales
Credits
- direction
- Elizabeth Hobbs
- script
- Elizabeth Hobbs
- animation
- Elizabeth Hobbs
- narration
- Sheila Donald
- original music
- Normand Roger
- sound design
- Normand Roger
- original music - collaboration
- Denis Chartrand
- sound design - collaboration
- Denis Chartrand
- musician
- Bernard Cormier
- Michel Dubeau
- Alain Cazes
- picture editing
- Mark Jenkins
- story editor
- Mark Jenkins
- sound editing
- Pierre Yves Drapeau
- story editing
- Mark Jenkins
- voice recording
- Stewart Wakefield
- digital imaging specialist
- Pierre Plouffe
- Susan Gourley
- digital film specialist
- Pierre Landry
- re-recording
- Serge Boivin
- video on-line
- Denis Pilon
- titles
- Gaspard Gaudreau
- production supervisor
- Richard Lesage
- Jennifer Loughnan
- administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Jocelyne Lalonde
- marketing manager
- Hélène Tanguay
- executive producer
- Ken Anderson
- David Verrall
- producer
- Katja Anderson
- Michael Fukushima
Awards
- McLaren Award for New British AnimationInternational Film Festival
- Award for Best International Programme 3London International Animation Festival - LIAF
- "Centaur" Prize for best animation film, Cash prize of 2000 USDMessage to Man
- Cineplex Odeon Award for Best Short AnimationFilm Festival