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Not So Different

1985 (estimated) Theatrical National Film Board of Canada

Foreign title: Au Pays De La Ressemblerie (French)

Studio
National Film Board of Canada
Distributor
National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis

This delightful, humorous fable is set in the Land of Same, where the law of the land is SAMENESS. Everyone has to behave the same, wear the same clothes, live in the same houses, drive the same cars, eat the same food- you name it, it's the SAME! Everything runs, smoothly (although it's a bit dull!) until the arrival of some DIFFERENT people, causing a wave of differentness to spread across the land. So the law is changed to DIFFERENTNESS. Things aren't dull any more, but life is chaotic! Eventually a meeting is held to vote on SAME OR DIFFERENT. The outcome? Well, see for yourself- it's not the same- but not so different...

Credits

Directing

Director
Don Arioli

Producing

Producer
Keith Packwood
Executive Producer
Floyd Elliott

Animation

Animator
Don Arioli

Awards

Award of Merit, Sound/Slides, Itinerant - AMTEC, London, Ontario, 1984.
Silver Screen Award, U.S. International Film and Video Festival, Redondo Beach, California, 1984