Wild Life (film)
Wildlife, French title Une vie sauvage, is a Canadian animated short film by Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby from the year 2011.
Action
In the summer of 1909 decides a British upper class, like many other Brits to seek his fortune in Canada: He wants to be ranchers and goes by ship to Alberta. He buys a piece of land with a small wooden hut and a tiny pond, a dog lays on and spends the year with tennis and golf game. He enjoys watching the birds and the flowers at his lake, it runs around with a small wooden boat. His other time he spends reading and believes to be his slightly tanned skin soon become a real rancher. His parents, he writes of his exciting life and of his plans to add itself a herd of cattle, but he 's nothing to it. The neighbors suspect that the winter will be tough for him. In fact, the man writes shortly after the onset of winter a letter to his parents in which he tells of the unspeakable cold in the country. The next morning they found him dead in the snow. He had gone off the day before with her suitcase packed from his hut, but not very far. The Sheriff speaks of strange circumstances of his death.
Production
Wildlife was. According to When the Day Breaks ( 1999), the second collaboration by Forbis and Tilby case of a short animated film Work on Wildlife began shortly after the completion of When the Day Breaks. Forbis and Tilby planned the film originally as a computer animated film, but quickly discovered that their ideas could not be realized on the PC. The sequences were finally mapped out on the computer, printed, colored in water color and then scanned, which led to a long processing time. Content, the film takes with respect to Aesop's fable The Ant and the Grasshopper.
Wildlife was first performed in September 2011 at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax. In November 2011, the film was released as part of the NFB Animation Express 2 series on DVD.
Awards
On the Atlantic Film Festival Wildlife was awarded in September 2011 for Best Canadian Short Film. At the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the film won the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation in the same month.
Wildlife 2012 was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Short Animated Film and was nominated for a Genie for Best Animated Short. He was also nominated in 2012 for an Oscar in the category " Best Animated Short Film ".