Music by Judith Gruber-Stitzwer Country Canada Story by Wendy Tilby Music director Judith Gruber-Stitzer | Release date 1999 (1999) Initial release 5 September 1999 Producer David Verrall | |
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Produced by David Verrall & Barrie Angus McLean Similar Wild Life, Strange Invaders, Runaway, Sunday, Black Soul | ||
When the day breaks
When the Day Breaks is a Canadian animated short co-directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.
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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. It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, losing to another animated short produced in Montreal: Aleksandr Petrov's Old Man and the Sea.
To create the film, directors used pencil and paint on photocopies to achieve a textured look suggestive of a lithograph or a flickering newsreel.