Agency - French program:.Animation and Youth Studio.

Direction, Martine Chartrand ; research, Martine Chartrand ; script, Martine Chartrand ; animation, Martine Chartrand ; camera 35mm, Martine Chartrand ; editing, Natacha Dufaux ; sound design, Olivier Calvert ; original music, Jean-François Dumas, Luzio Altobelli, Dominic Desrochers ; recording, Geoffrey Mitchell, Mathieu Leroux ; foley, Jérôme Décarie, Daniel Bisson, Bertrand Duranleau ; re-recording, Serge Boivin ; digital imaging specialist, Pierre Plouffe, Susan Gourley ; executive producer, Michèle Bélanger, René Chénier ; producer, Marcel Jean, Marc Bertrand.

Recorded 2012.

In Quebec during the early 1930s, young poet Félix Leclerc befriended Frank Randolph Macpherson, a Jamaican chemical engineer and university graduate who worked for a pulp and paper company. An inveterate jazz fan, Macpherson inspired Leclerc, who wrote a song about the log drives and entitled it "MacPherson" in honour of his friend. In the heart of a wintry nation, a white man and a black man bask in the warmth of a friendship buoyed by melodies of jazz, traditional Quebec folk tunes, Jamaican mento and a Schubert sonata. The magical hands of Martine Chartrand, director of Black Soul, have created an animated film that bursts with a pulsating hybrid of poetry and music, employing painted glass frames shot with a 35mm camera. Somewhere between documentary and fiction, MacPherson, based on Leclerc's famous song, depicts turning points in history and, with great sensitivity and lavish imagery, evokes the deep feelings shared by the Jamaican engineer and one of Leclerc's sisters. A film brimming with exuberant, colourful images.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Prix du court métrage, 2013 Honourable Mention for Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation, 2012 Best Animated Short- with a cash prize of $500, 2012 First Prize (Short Film), 2012 Award for Best Canadian Short Film (Public Award), 2012

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