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Dimanche (film)

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Directed by
  
Patrick Doyon

Music by
  
Luigi Allemano

Initial release
  
10 February 2012 (USA)

Screenplay
  
Patrick Doyon

Written by
  
Patrick Doyon

Edited by
  
Jelena Popovic

Director
  
Patrick Doyon

Music director
  
Luigi Allemano

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Produced by
  
Marc Bertrand Michael Fukushima

Starring
  
Chantal Baril Natalie Hamel Roy Jacques Lavallée François Sasseville Nicolas Scott

Cast
  
Chantal Baril, Jacques Lavallée, Nicolas Scott, François Sasseville, Natalie Hamel Roy

Producers
  
Michael Fukushima, Marc Bertrand

Similar
  
Wild Life, When the Day Breaks, Strange Invaders, Black Soul, Runaway

Dimanche (English: Sunday) is a Canadian animated short film by Patrick Doyon. The film debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2011 and online on January 5, 2012.

Contents

Dimanche is the first professional film by Doyon, a native of Montreal. Doyon had previously created a three-minute animated short Square Roots in 2006, while enrolled in the NFB's Hothouse program for young animators.

Still learning how to use computer animation tools, he worked with pen and pencil to create Dimanche, hand drawing the entire film. The 10-minute film took him two years to complete, creating individual drawings on paper, working on a light table. Doyon ended up with 15 boxes full of sheets with sketches, which he then scanned into the computer, colourized and began editing. Doyon believes such traditional animation techniques are better for portraying emotion.

Awards

The film was nominated Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards as well as Best Animated Short Subject at the 39th Annie Awards. It also received the ASIFA-Colorado Award for the Best Animated Short at the 34th Denver Film Festival. It also received Quebec’s Prix Jutra for best animated short.

Plot

Dimanche tells the story of a young boy who goes to his grandparents' house in a small town in Quebec after church on Sunday. Bored with the adult world, he wanders outside to indulge his hobby of creating in elongating coins by placing them on train tracks. Doyon has said that the film is inspired by his youth in Desbiens, Quebec.

References

Dimanche (film) Wikipedia


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