Flawed (film)

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| name = Flawed

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| director = Andrea Dorfman

| producer = Annette Clarke

| writer = Andrea Dorfman

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| music = Dorval

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| released = {{film date|2010|06||Worldwide Short Film Festival|ref1={{cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/news/five-nfb-animations-presented-worldwide-short-film-festival|title=Five NFB Animations Presented At The Worldwide Short Film Festival|work=Animation World Network|accessdate=19 June 2020|archive-date=22 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622020704/https://www.awn.com/news/five-nfb-animations-presented-worldwide-short-film-festival|url-status=live}}}}

| runtime = 12 minuteshttp://onf-nfb.gc.ca/medias/mediakit/Flawed_Presskit.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101233055/http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/medias/mediakit/Flawed_Presskit.pdf |date=2013-11-01 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}

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Flawed is a 2010 short animated documentary film and website by Halifax filmmaker Andrea Dorfman about body image, combining stop-motion animation and hand-painted images. Flawed was produced in Halifax by Annette Clarke for the National Film Board of Canada.{{cite news|last=Cooke|first=Stephen|title=Halifax filmmaker Dorfman nabs Emmy nomination|url=http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/119381-halifax-filmmaker-dorfman-nabs-emmy-nomination|accessdate=7 August 2012|newspaper=Halifax Chronicle-Herald|date=21 July 2012|archive-date=6 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006152156/http://thechronicleherald.ca/artslife/119381-halifax-filmmaker-dorfman-nabs-emmy-nomination|url-status=live}}

According to Dorfman, the film was created to resemble a storyboard because it was based on a series of postcards that she has sent to a boyfriend while they were in a long-distance relationship. While Flawed is an autobiographical work, she also believes that it is universal because "I believe everyone has felt flawed at some point in their lives."{{cite web|last=Matlin|first=Julie|title=Hot Docs special: 3 questions with Flawed director Andrea Dorfman|url=http://blog.nfb.ca/2010/04/29/hot-docs-special-3-questions-with-flawed-director-andrea-dorfman/|work=NFB.ca Blog|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=7 August 2012|format=Interview|date=29 April 2010|archive-date=9 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409185256/http://blog.nfb.ca/2010/04/29/hot-docs-special-3-questions-with-flawed-director-andrea-dorfman/|url-status=live}}

In July 2012, the film version of Flawed received a nomination in the category New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries at the 33rd annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The film was nominated following its August 23, 2011 premiere on the PBS series POV.{{cite web|title=Flawed|url=https://www.pbs.org/pov/flawed/|work=POV website|accessdate=7 August 2012|archive-date=5 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005024406/http://www.pbs.org/pov/flawed/|url-status=live}}

The film's awards also included an audience choice award at the New York City Short Film Festival.{{cite web|title=Flawed|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=56289|work=Collection|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=7 August 2012|archive-date=14 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914212303/http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=56289|url-status=live}} Festival selections included a premiere at the 2010 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.{{cite news|last=Bell|first=Robert|title=Flawed Directed by Andrea Dorfman|url=http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/HotDocs/Flawed_-_Directed_by_Andrea_Dorfman|accessdate=7 August 2012|newspaper=Exclaim!|format=Review|year=2010}}