When the Day Breaks
{{Short description|1999 Canadian film}}
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| director = Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis
| producer = David Verrall & Barrie Angus McLean
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| music = Judith Gruber-Stitzwer
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| distributor = National Film Board of Canada
| released = {{Film date|1999|09|5}}
| runtime = 9 min.
| country = Canada
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When the Day Breaks is a Canadian animated short co-directed by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis[https://www.cartoonbrew.com/the-animation-that-changed-me/the-animation-that-changed-me-jeremy-clapin-on-when-the-day-breaks-195762.html The Animation That Changed Me: Jérémy Clapin on ‘When The Day Breaks’|Cartoon Brew][https://www.cartoonbrew.com/know-your-indie-filmmaker/indie-filmmaker-amanda-forbis-wendy-tilby-219205.html Know Your Indie Filmmaker: Amanda Forbis And Wendy Tilby|Cartoon Brew] 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.[https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2016/01/13/when-the-day-breaks/ Short of the Week]
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.fipa.tm.fr/en/programmes/2001/ho_01338.htm|title=International Festival of Audiovisual Programs|access-date=2009-07-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061130190414/http://www.fipa.tm.fr/en/programmes/2001/ho_01338.htm|archive-date=2006-11-30|url-status=dead}}[https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-rotoscoping-goes-very-very-right When Rotoscoping Goes Very, Very Right|Animation Obsessive]
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=33251#nav-prix|title=When the Day Breaks|year=1999|work=Awards list|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|access-date=2009-07-04}}{{cite journal|last=Punter|first=Jennie|date=Summer 1999|title=Wendy Tilby's When the Day Breaks wins at Cannes|journal=Take One|publisher=Wyndham Wise|location=Toronto|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JSF/is_24/ai_30234510/}} It was also included in the Animation Show of Shows.[https://www.animationshowofshows.com/collections/films/products/when-the-day-breaks-by-wendy-tilby Animation Show of Shows][https://vimeo.com/83712907 When the Day Breaks, by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis (Preview) on Vimeo]
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.{{cite news|url=http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/032300/reel.html|title=Animating Oscar|last=Hays|first=Matthew|date=March 23, 2000|work=Montreal Mirror|access-date=2009-07-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202091826/http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/2000/032300/reel.html|archive-date=2008-12-02|url-status=dead}}[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LsGJvg3hfU Animated Short Winner: 2000 Oscars][https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2000 2000|Oscars.org]
References
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External links
- {{NFB film|when_the_day_breaks}}
- {{IMDb title|0200282}}
- [http://www.acmefilmworks.com/work/spot/when-the-day-breaks/ Excerpt on Acme Filmworks]
{{ACCT Short Films}}
{{Short Film Palme d'Or Winners}}
Category:Canadian animated short films
Category:Short Film Palme d'Or winners
Category:Films shot in Montreal
Category:Films directed by Wendy Tilby
Category:National Film Board of Canada animated short films
Category:Best Animated Short Film Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners
Category:1999 animated short films
Category:Animated films without speech
Category:1990s Canadian animated films