The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced that Oscar winner Torill Kove's Mikrofilm/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Maybe Elephants is one of 15 films shortlisted for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 97th Oscars.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has just announced that Oscar winner Torill Kove's Mikrofilm/National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated short Maybe Elephants is one of 15 films shortlisted for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 97th Oscars.
A playful and loving autobiographical homage to family, adolescence and the therapeutic power of memories, however unreliable, Maybe Elephants reunites the cast of Kove's previous Oscar nominee, Me and My Moulton.
This shortlist selection is the latest honour for Torill Kove, who recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from SPARK ANIMATION in Vancouver, Western Canada's largest animation fest. Since its world premiere at the prestigious Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, the film has been selected by more than 30 festivals around the world.
Maybe Elephants marks the fourth collaboration of the NFB and Norway's Mikrofilm AS with Montreal-based animator Torill Kove-a stellar run of animation excellence over two decades, encompassing three Academy Award-nominated shorts, including her 2007 Oscar winner, The Danish Poet.
Maybe Elephants by Torill Kove (Mikrofilm/NFB, 16 min 43 s)
Producers: Lise Fearnley (Mikrofilm), Maral Mohammadian (NFB), Tonje Skar Reiersen (Mikrofilm)
NFB executive producers: Robert McLaughlin and Michael Fukushima
