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Every Child (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Every Child' is an animated short film produced in 1979 by the National Film Board of Canada in association with UNICEF.
This is a film without words, incorporating sounds by Les Mmes lectriques (The Electric Mimes).
Description
To commemorate the declaration of the UNICEF about the rights about the child, this film illustrates the theme "Every child has the right for a name and nationality when born." There is even a reminder at the end of the film for the viewer to support UNICEF.
This animated short tells the story of a child rejected from every home, then found by two tramps who give her love and tenderness.
Cast
* Bernard Carez
* Sophie Cowling as the Child
* Raymond Pollender
Credits
*Director and animator: Eugene Fedorenko
*Producer: Derek Lamb
*Written by: Derek Lamb, Les Mmes lectriques
*Filmed by: Robert Humble, Richard Moras, Jacques Avoine
*Sound: Normand Roger
*Mixer: Hans Peter Strobl
*Sound Artists: Les Mmes lectriques
*Painters: France Beaulieu, Marc Betrand (Uncredited)
*Administrator: Diane Bergeron
*UNICEF Producer: Michel Munger (Uncredited)
Awards
*In 1980 Derek Lamb won an Oscar for 'Best Short Film, Animated' at the Academy Awards, United States
*Best Animation and Special Award, 1st Genie Awards, 1980
*In 1980 Eugene Fedorenko won the OIAF Award for 'First Films' at the Ottawa International Animation Festival
References
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