Wild Life (short film)

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Movie
Original title Wild life
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 14 minutes
Rod
Director Amanda Forbis
Wendy Tilby
script Amanda Forbis
Wendy Tilby
production Marcy Page
Bonnie Thompson
for the National Film Board of Canada
music Judith Gruber-Stitzer
cut Patrick Butler

Wild Life , French title Une vie sauvage , is a 2011 Canadian animated short film directed by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby .

action

In the summer of 1909, an upper class Brit decided, like many other Britons, to seek his fortune in Canada: He wanted to become a rancher and went to Alberta by ship . He buys a piece of land with a small wooden hut and a tiny pond, gets a dog and spends the year playing tennis and golf. He likes to watch the birds and flowers at his lake, which he navigates with a small wooden boat. He spends his other free time reading and believes that his lightly tanned skin will soon make him a real rancher. He writes to his parents about his exciting life and his plans to get a herd of cattle, but it is none of his business. The neighbors suspect that winter will be hard for him. In fact, shortly after the onset of winter, the man wrote a letter to his parents in which he reported on the unspeakable cold in the country. The next morning he is found dead in the snow. He had left his hut the previous evening with his suitcase packed, but hadn't got far. The sheriff speaks of strange circumstances in his death.

production

Wild Life was Forbis and Tilby's second collaboration on a short animated film after When the Day Breaks (1999). Work on Wild Life began shortly after When the Day Breaks was finished . Forbis and Tilby originally planned the film as a computer animation film, but quickly discovered that their ideas could not be realized on the PC. The sequences were finally drawn out on the computer, printed out, colored in water color and then scanned, which led to a long processing time. In terms of content, the film refers to Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper .

Wild Life was first shown in September 2011 at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax, Canada. The film was released on DVD in November 2011 as part of the NFB Animation Express 2 series .

Awards

Wild Life was named Best Canadian Short Film at the Atlantic Film Festival in September 2011. At the Ottawa International Animation Festival that month, the film received the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation.

Wild Life was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2012 and received a nomination for a Genius for Best Animated Short Film . It was also nominated in 2012 for an Oscar in the “ Best Animated Short Film ” category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See interview with Forbis and Tilby at dominic-von-riedemann.suite101.com/interview---amanda-forbis-and-wendy-tilby-on-the-nfbs-wild-life-a393746