When the Day Breaks
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Summary
After witnessing an accidental death of a humanoid rooster, Ruby, a humanoid pig, seeks comfort from her everyday life in the city.[3]
Technique
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]
Accolades
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]
References
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- ↑ The Animation That Changed Me: Jérémy Clapin on ‘When The Day Breaks’|Cartoon Brew
- ↑ Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Amanda Forbis And Wendy Tilby|Cartoon Brew
- ↑ Short of the Week
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- ↑ When Rotoscoping Goes Very, Very Right|Animation Obsessive
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- ↑ Animation Show of Shows
- ↑ When the Day Breaks, by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (Preview) on Vimeo
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- ↑ Animated Short Winner: 2000 Oscars
- ↑ 2000|Oscars.org
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External links
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- Excerpt on Acme Filmworks
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- 1999 films
- Canadian animated short films
- Short Film Palme d'Or winners
- Films shot in Montreal
- Films directed by Wendy Tilby
- National Film Board of Canada animated short films
- Best Animated Short Film Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
- 1999 animated short films
- Animated films without speech
- 1990s Canadian animated films
- Animated films about pigs
- Annecy Cristal–winning films