Agency - English program:.Studio du Québec et de l'Atlantique.

Writer, Colin MacKenzie, Aparna Kapur ; director, Colin MacKenzie, Aparna Kapur ; animator, Aparna Kapur ; story consultant, Shandi Mitchell ; picture editor, Susan Shanks ; original music, Judith Gruber-Stitzer ; sound design, Judith Gruber-Stitzer ; director of photography, Santosh Sivan ; interview recording, Allan Scarth ; foley, Karla Baumgardner, Geoff Mitchell ; music recording, Geoff Mitchell ; voice recording, null The Mix Room ; researcher, Colin MacKenzie, Vincenzo Ravina, Ashley Corbett ; consultant, Bruce Alcock, Tina Ouellette, Claire Blanchet, Donald McWilliams, Firas Momani, Fred Casia, Hélène Dubé, Michael Crummey ; re-recording, Jean-Paul Vialard ; associate producer, Teri Snelgrove ; producer - investigate , Maral Mohammadian ; producer, Kat Baulu ; executive producer, Annette Clarke.

Voice, Grady Ainscough.

Recorded 2019.

When an extraordinary new resident - Balakrishna, an Indian elephant - arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in awe of the creature than young Winton Cook, who became inseparable from his mammoth new friend. Using painterly animation, photographs and home-movie treasures, Balakrishna transmits the wistfulness of childhood memories, while evoking themes of friendship and loss, and issues of immigration and elephant conservation.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).