Wild Life
Directed byAmanda Forbis
Wendy Tilby
Written byAmanda Forbis
Wendy Tilby
Produced byMarcy Page
Bonnie Thompson
David Verrall (exec.)
David Christensen (exec.)
StarringAdam Blackwood
Luba Goy
Anthony Bekenn
Keith Dinicol
Colin Fox
Nonnie Griffin
Ben Carlson
Amy Rutherford
Music byJudith Gruber-Stitzer
Production
company
Release dates
  • June 2011 (2011-06)
  • January 6, 2012 (2012-01-06) (online)
Running time
13 minutes 30 seconds
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

Wild Life is a 2011 Canadian animated short film by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis. The film debuted at the 2011 Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto in June 2011 and online on January 6, 2012.[1] The film was nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards, and Best Animated Short Subject at the 39th Annie Awards[2] as well as a Genie Award for Best Animated Short at the 32nd Genie Awards.[3]

Based in Calgary, Tilby and Forbis were previously nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for their 1999 NFB film When the Day Breaks, with Tilby also nominated individually for her 1991 NFB short Strings.[4]

Wild Life was produced by Marcy Page and Bonnie Thompson.[5]

Premise

The film follows the story of a dapper young remittance man sent to Alberta from England in 1909, with disastrous results.[3][4]

Production

In addition to writing and directing the film, Forbis and Tilby drew and painted every animation frame in guache, and wrote the lyrics for the film's final song. They were only able to work on Wild Life part-time, due to commercial obligations, and the film is reported to have taken them from six to over seven years, from concept to completion.[5][6]

Awards

The film has been nominated as Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards, and Best Animated Short Subject at the 39th Annie Awards as well as a Genie Award for Best Animated Short at the 32nd Genie Awards. The short won three honors at the 38th Annual Alberta Film and Television Awards in Calgary, including the Rosie for Best Short. Forbis and Tilby also won the Rosie for Best Animator(s) or Motion Graphic Artist(s), while the award for Best Overall Sound — Drama went to Wild Life creative crew David J. Taylor and Pat Butler.[7] Wild Life won a Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation at the2012 Yorkton Film Festival.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Web Premiere: "Wild Life" by Amanda Forbis & Wendy Tilby". Cartoon Brew. 6 January 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Wild Life". www.bcdb.com, February 2, 2012
  3. ^ a b Melissa Leong; Eric Volmers (18 January 2012). "Homegrown films up for Genie Awards". Calgary Herald. Postmedia News. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
  4. ^ a b Patch, Nick (24 January 2012). "Two National Film Board of Canada animated shorts nominated for Oscars". Toronto Star. Canadian Press. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  5. ^ a b Hall, Jamie (22 February 2012). "Edmonton producer's film Wild Life off to the Oscars". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 24 February 2012.
  6. ^ Dixon, Guy (24 February 2012). "Oscar-nominated NFB animators draw on tradition". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 26 February 2012.
  7. ^ Anderson, Paul (16 May 2012). "NFB's "Wild Life" short piles up 3 Alberta awards". Big Cartoon News. Archived from the original on 2 December 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
  8. ^ "Our Collection: Wild Life". National Film Board of Canada. 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2020.

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