Adam Blackwood

Luba Goy

Anthony Bekenn

Keith Dinicol

Colin Fox

Nonnie Griffin

Ben Carlson

Amy Rutherford

Amanda Forbis

Wendy Tilby

Gail Carr

Judith Gruber-Stitzer

Patrick Butler

Brent Planiden

Andy Malcolm

Deborah Tilby

Corinne Dickson

Val Nelson

Stephen McCallum

Olivier Masson

Brandon Blommaert

Fred Casia

Randall Finnerty

Pierre Plouffe

Yannick Carrier

David Christensen

David Verrall

Marcy Page

Bonnie Thompson

Gisèle Guilbault

Darin Clausen

Marie-Christine Nadon

Elaine Largie

Lysanne Fortier

Steve Hallé

Julie Laperriere

Elizabeth Klinck

Sylvia Mezei

Russell De Carle

Jean-Paul Vialard

J. David Taylor

Ron Mellegers

Jonathan Cook

Ryan Aktari

Geoffrey Mitchell

Mathieu Leroux

Don Murnaghan

Gaspard Gaudreau

Susan Gourley

Luigi Allemano

Jean Bureau

Ian D. Clark

Andrew Gillies

Sarah Marchand

Donald McWilliams

Jason Smalridge

Animation

Western

Fantasy

Wild Life

ONF | NFB

Canada

CinemaSerf

I liked the brush-stroke style of animation here as we follow a rather naive young Englishman as he leaves the comforts of his upper-class existence and emigrates to Calgary. Now in 1909, that was little more than an hamlet but he has plenty of (parental) cash, so secures a 90-acre spread equipped with a pond and a shack. He's happy enough - though perhaps not as adventurous as he declares to his folks in his letters. With the harsh winter approaching, though, loneliness begins to set in and then... Simultaneously, we have a sequence of inter titles that describe to us something of the life of a comet. It's time near the brightness of the sun before it's journey takes it beyond the orbit of Pluto. Analogous? The narrative pokes a little fun at all things English (even the Scots get their dig in) and is quite amiable. I've only ever been into the north of Canada once - to a British Army Arctic training facility. The bitter cold and the darkness of the winter months is almost claustrophobic - and that was with double glazing and central heating. Brrr!

English

"Wild Life"