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The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg/Le garçon qui a vu l'iceberg

Description

A playful and poignant animated short about a boy with an overactive imagination, The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg presents two worlds - reality and fantasy.

Paul Driessen's multi-layered split-screen approach revels in the shifting boundaries between these two realms. In this cautionary tale, the young protagonist, bored with his lot, imagines a diabolic and dangerous life of adventure. But when our would-be hero, accustomed to eluding mobsters and monsters in his daydreams, finally finds himself facing a real-life drama - in the shape of an iceberg - he can't believe his eyes! Suddenly, the mundane life that he always wanted to escape is what he wishes to recapture.

2000, 08 min 49 s

Directed by
Paul Driessen
Produced by
Marcy Page
Production Agency
National Film Board of Canada

Also available in French

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Credits

Director
Paul Driessen
Animation
Paul Driessen
Music
Normand Roger
Music collaboration
Denis L. Chartrand
Sound design
Normand Roger
Sound editing
Normand Roger
Sound design
Jean-Baptiste Roger
Sound editing
Jean-Baptiste Roger
Digital imaging
Randall Finnerty
Digital imaging - assistance
Osama Afify
Digital imaging resources
Ines Hardtke
Marc St-Pierre
Re-recording
Serge Boivin
Jean Paul Vialard
Post-production coordination
Richard Lesage
Administration
Gisèle Guilbault
Executive producer
David Verrall
Producer
Marcy Page

Awards

  • Golden Prize

    International Animation Festival
    February 23 to 27 2003, Tehran - Iran
  • Special International Jury Prize

    International Animation Festival
    August 22 to 26 2002, Hiroshima - Japan
  • Special Award "for the clarity of visual narration, the fluidity of animation and the quality of soundtrack"

    World Festival of Animated Films
    June 18 to 23 2002, Zagreb - Croatia
  • Best Prize for Short Film - with a cash prize of 3,000,000Won (approx. 3,735$Cdn)

    Seoul International Animation Festival
    May 4 to 12 2002, Seoul - Korea
  • Genie Award for Best Animated Short

    Genie Awards
    February 7 2002, Toronto - Canada
  • Prize Centaur - Category: Best Animated Film - with a cash prize of 2000USD

    Message to Man
    June 15 to 22 2001, St. Petersburg - Russia
  • FIPRESCI Award - For the innovative form of storytelling, involving the audience in a little boy's inner world.

    International Animated Film Festival
    June 4 to 9 2001, Annecy - France
  • Special Jury Award

    International Animated Film Festival
    June 4 to 9 2001, Annecy - France
  • Silver Dragon - Category: Animation - with a cash prize of 10,000PLN (2,500$US)

    International Film Festival
    May 25 to 29 2001, Cracow - Poland
  • Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Animation

    Golden Sheaf Awards /Short Film and Video Festival
    May 24 to 27 2001, Yorkton - Canada
  • Silver FIPA - Category: Short Film

    International Audiovisual Programme Festival / (FIPA)
    January 16 to 21 2001, Biarritz - France
  • Class B Award (7 - 21 minutes)(ex-aequo with Au Premier Dimanche d'Août by Florence Miailhe) given by the International Jury- with a cash prize of 200,000PTE (1,329$Cdn divided between the winners)

    International Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA
    November 6 to 12 2000, Espinho - Portugal
  • Award - Category: Best Original Soundtrack - with a cash prize of 200,000PTE (1,360$Cdn)

    International Animated Film Festival / CINANIMA
    November 6 to 12 2000, Espinho - Portugal
  • Silver Dove - Category: Animated Films and Videos - with a cash prize of 4,000DM (2,704$Cdn)

    International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
    October 17 to 22 2000, Leipzig - Germany

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