In the Shadow of the Pines

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In the Shadow of the Pines
Directed byAnne Koizumi
Written byAnne Koizumi
Produced byAnne Koizumi
Sahar Yousefi
StarringMikio Owaki
Anne Koizumi
CinematographyJérôme Bretéché
Anne Koizumi
Edited byAnne Koizumi
Music byrespectfulchild
Animation byJérôme Bretéché
Anne Koizumi
Production
companies
Nava Projects
Post Moderne
Distributed byCanadian Broadcasting Corporation
Release date
  • April 24, 2020 (2020-04-24)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
Japanese

In the Shadow of the Pines is a Canadian animated short documentary film, directed by and released in 2020.[1] An exploration of her grief around the death of her father in the early 2010s, the film centres on an imagined conversation with him about her childhood shame that he was employed as the janitor at her school, thus exposing her to her classmates as the daughter of a working class immigrant.[1]

Although Koizumi is an administrative employee of the National Film Board of Canada, she made the film independently rather than through her employer.[1]

The film was screened at numerous documentary and animation film festivals in 2020 and 2021, and was added to CBC Gem.[1] It received an honorable mention for the Best Canadian Short Film award at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival,[2] won the awards for Best Narrative Short and Best Canadian Animation at the 2020 Ottawa International Animation Festival,[3] and won the award for Best Animated Short at the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival.[4]

The film was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 22B Quebec Cinema Awards.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d Eric Volmers, "Filmmaker works through grief and reconnects with her father's memory through new animated documentary". Calgary Herald, May 8, 2020.
  2. ^ Norman Wilner, "Prayer For A Lost Mitten, Stray win top awards at Hot Docs 2020". Now, May 19, 2020.
  3. ^ Amid Amidi, "‘KKUM’ Becomes 3rd Film In Ottawa History To Win Both Top Short And Public Prize". Cartoon Brew, October 3, 2020.
  4. ^ G. Allen Johnson, "SFFilm names ‘Naked Singularity,’ ‘Cuban Dancer,’ ‘Lily Topples the World’ top winners during virtual awards ceremony". San Francisco Chronicle, April 17, 2021.
  5. ^ Jean-François Vandeuren, "La déesse des mouches à feu part en tête des nominations du Gala Québec Cinéma 2021". Showbizz.net, April 26, 2021.

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