Loading AI tools
1999 Canadian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When the Day Breaks is a Canadian animated short co-directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis[1][2] and featuring the voice of Canadian singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright singing the titular song.
When the Day Breaks | |
---|---|
Directed by | Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis |
Produced by | David Verrall & Barrie Angus McLean |
Music by | Judith Gruber-Stitzwer |
Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
Release date |
|
Running time | 9 min. |
Country | Canada |
After witnessing an accidental death of a humanoid rooster, Ruby, a humanoid pig, seeks comfort from her everyday life in the city.[3]
To create the film, directors used pencil and paint on photocopies to achieve a textured look suggestive of a lithograph or a flickering newsreel.[4][5]
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 1999, the 9 min. 40 sec. film garnered numerous awards, including the Genie Award for Best Animated Short, the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, TIFF – Best Canadian Short, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival – Animated Short, Grand Prix for short film at Animafest Zagreb and the Banff Television Festival, Best Animation Program.[6][7] It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.[8][9]
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, but lost to another animated short produced in Montreal: Aleksandr Petrov's Old Man and the Sea.[10][11][12]
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.