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The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg
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The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg
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A playful and poignant animated short about a boy with an over-active imagination, The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg presents two worlds -reality and fantasy. Paul Driessen's multi-layered split-screen approach revels in the shifting boundaries between these two realms. In this cautionary tale, the young protagonist, bored with his lot, imagines a diabolic and dangerous life of adventure. But when our would-be hero, accustomed to eluding mobsters and monsters in his daydreams, finally finds himself facing a real-life drama, he can't believe his eyes. It's even harder for him to convince anyone else of what he's seen - an iceberg! Suddenly, the mundane life that he always wanted to escape, is what he wishes to recapture. Film without words.
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Title
The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg
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Authors
Driessen, Paul
Verrall, David
Page, Marcy
National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subjects
Fantasy--Fiction--Animated films.
Animated filmsBoysDaydreamingFantasiesImaginationReality
Language
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Published
Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2011.
Publication Desc
1 streaming video (8 min., 49 sec.) : sound.
Series
1
Awards Note
Golden Sheaf Award - Category: Best Animation, 2001 Genie Award for Best Animated Short, 2002 Golden Prize, 2003 Best Prize for Short Film - with a cash prize of 3,000,000Won (approx. 3,735$Cdn), 2002 Special Jury Award, 2001 FIPRESCI Award - For the innovative form of storytelling, involving the audience in a little boy's inner world., 2001 Silver FIPA - Category: Short Film, 2001 Award - Category: Best Original Soundtrack - with a cash prize of 200,000PTE (1,360$Cdn), 2000 Class B Award (7 - 21 minutes)(ex-aequo with Au Premier Dimanche d'Août by Florence Miailhe) given by the International Jury- with a cash prize of 200,000PTE (1,329$Cdn divided between the winners), 2000 Silver Dove - Category: Animated Films and Videos - with a cash prize of 4,000DM (2,704$Cdn), 2000 Silver Dragon - Category: Animation - with a cash prize of 10,000PLN (2,500$US), 2001 Prize Centaur - Category: Best Animated Film - with a cash prize of 2000USD, 2001 Special Award "for the clarity of visual narration, the fluidity of animation and the quality of soundtrack", 2002 Special International Jury Prize, 2002
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