Every Child
Foreign title: Chaque Enfant (French)
- Studio
- National Film Board of Canada
- Distributor
- National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis
This six-minute segment illustrates one of the ten principles of the Declaration, namely that every child is entitled to a name and a nationality. It is the story of a baby who appears mysteriously on the doorstep of a busy executive, and who is subsequently bounced from household to household down the block. Nobody in the community is interested in caring for the baby without a name.
Characters
Baby
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Eugene Fedorenko
Producing
- Producer
- Derek Lamb
Writing
- Writer
- Derek Lamb, Bernard Carez (Les Mimes Électriques), Raymond Pollender (Les Mimes Électriques)
Voices
- Voice
- Sophie Cowling (Child), Bernard Carez, Raymond Pollender
Crew
- Painters
- Françoise Hartmann, Eunice Macaulay, Marie-Christiane Mathieu, France Trudeau
- Sound
- Normand Roger
- Sound Mixer
- Peter Strobl
- Animation Camera
- Jacques Avoine, Robert Humble, Richard Moras
- Animation Design
- Eugene Fedorenko, Rose Newlove
Production notes
Abstract film produced at the invitation of the United Nations Organization to celebrate UNICEF's Declaration of Children's Rights, this film is the Canadian contribution to the hour-long feature film consisting of ten six-minute segments in celebration of the International Year of the Child.
Producer Derek Lamb and director Eugene Fedorenko won the Short Film - Animated award for Every Child/Chaque Enfant. The film focuses on two homeless men who take care of an unwanted infant.
"I'd like to say that Every Child is a production of the National Film Board of Canada, and in thanking the Academy I'd like to say that this is the third year in a row that you have honored us with the Oscar for animation," director Derek Lamb said in his Academy Award acceptance speech. "It's a great encouragement for the young animators and for us to keep going making, hopefully, good and innovative films."
"I'd like to say that Every Child is a production of the National Film Board of Canada, and in thanking the Academy I'd like to say that this is the third year in a row that you have honored us with the Oscar for animation," director Derek Lamb said in his Academy Award acceptance speech. "It's a great encouragement for the young animators and for us to keep going making, hopefully, good and innovative films."
Awards
Academy Award Winner, Best Short Film (Animated), 1980.
Genie Award, Outstanding Animation, 1980
Genie Award, Outstanding Animation, 1980