Madame Tutli-Putli
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| Madame Tutli-Putli | |
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 Madame Tutli-Putli waiting for her train. |
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| Directed by | Chris Lavis Maciek Szczerbowski Clyde Henry Productions |
| Produced by | Marcy Page |
| Starring | Laurie Maher |
| Music by | Jean-Frédéric Messier David Bryant |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada (NFB) |
| Release date(s) | 2007 |
| Running time | 17 min. |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | None |
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| IMDb profile | |
Madame Tutli-Putli is a 2007 Academy Award nominated stop motion-animated short film by Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, produced by the National Film Board of Canada.
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[edit] Oscars contest
The NFB has put Madame Tutli-Putli on their website for people to watch.[2] For every person who watches the frames currently on the site, they will unlock another frame. This can only be done by one IP address every twenty-four hours. If all of the frames are unlocked by the twenty-second of February, the CBC will run the movie on their website the very same day.
[edit] Plot
Madame Tutli-Putli boards a night train for a mysterious and suspenseful journey.
[edit] Research and production
The filmmakers researched the film by traveling on The Canadian, north of Lake Superior, living on the train for two weeks, collecting stories. The stop motion animation took them more than five years.[1] [2] [3] Critics lauded the film for its groundbreaking stop-motion animation techniques. Portrait artist Jason Walker created the technique of adding composited human eyes to the stop motion puppets.[4] [5] [6]
[edit] Awards
On May 28, 2007, the film won the Canal + Grand Prize for best short film along with the Petit Rail d'Or, chosen by a "group of 100 cinephile railwaymen," at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.[7] [8] In June 2007, Madame Tutli-Putli won best animated short at the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, qualifying it for Academy Award consideration.[9] It received an Oscar nomination in January 2008.
[edit] Notes
- ^ TheStar.com | entertainment | Cannes at 60
- ^ Madame Tutli-Putli – La génèse
- ^ CANOE - JAM! Movies: All eyes on animated pioneer
- ^ Official site [1]
- ^ Frames Per Second Magazine: The Eyes Have It: Four Questions for Jason Walker
- ^ Stainless Steel Droppings » Friday Favorites: Jason Walker
- ^ Nova Scotia News - TheChronicleHerald.ca
- ^ Playback :: Tutli-Putli nabs two at Cannes
- ^ Playback :: Another win for Tutli
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