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When the Day Breaks is a Canadian animated short co-directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis and featuring the voice of Canadian singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright singing the titular song.

Summary

After witnessing an accidental death of a humanoid rooster, Ruby, a humanoid pig, seeks comfort from her everyday life in the city.

Technique

To create the film, directors used pencil and paint on photocopies to achieve a textured look suggestive of a lithograph or a flickering newsreel.

Accolades

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, but lost to another animated short produced in Montreal: Aleksandr Petrov's Old Man and the Sea.

References

1. The Animation That Changed Me: Jérémy Clapin on ‘When The Day Breaks’|Cartoon Brew
2. Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Amanda Forbis And Wendy Tilby|Cartoon Brew
3. Short of the Week
4. "International Festival of Audiovisual Programs". Archived from the original on 2006-11-30. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
5. When Rotoscoping Goes Very, Very Right|Animation Obsessive
6. "When the Day Breaks". Awards list. National Film Board of Canada. 1999. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
7. Punter, Jennie (Summer 1999). "Wendy Tilby's When the Day Breaks wins at Cannes". Take One. Toronto: Wyndham Wise.
8. Animation Show of Shows
9. When the Day Breaks, by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (Preview) on Vimeo
10. Hays, Matthew (March 23, 2000). "Animating Oscar". Montreal Mirror. Archived from the original on 2008-12-02. Retrieved 2009-07-04.
11. Animated Short Winner: 2000 Oscars
12. 2000|Oscars.org

External links

• Watch When the Day Breaks on the NFB website
• When the Day Breaks at IMDb
• Excerpt on Acme Filmworks

• 1999 films
• Canadian animated short films
• Short Film Palme d'Or winners
• Films shot in Montreal
• Films directed by Wendy Tilby
• National Film Board of Canada animated short films
• Best Animated Short Film Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
• 1999 animated short films
• Animated films without speech
• 1990s Canadian animated films
• Animated films about pigs
• Annecy Cristal–winning films