The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) stop-motion animated fable The Girl Who Cried Pearls by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski is among 15 films shortlisted for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 98th Oscars.
The Montreal duo first captured global attention with their 2007 NFB short Madame Tutli-Putli, which garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short and received 45 awards and honours.
Winner of the Short Cuts Award for Best Canadian Short Film at TIFF, The Girl Who Cried Pearls features a star-studded creative team, including Colm Feore (voice), Patrick Watson (music) and Brigitte Henry as artistic director. Sound design is by Olivier Calvert, who was on Sylvain Bellemare's team for the Denis Villeneuve film Arrival, winner of the 2017 Oscar for Sound Editing.
The Girl Who Cried Pearls is available on NFB.ca, YouTube and all NFB apps in Canada.
About the film
The Girl Who Cried Pearls, by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (17 min 28 s)
Producers: Julie Roy, Marc Bertrand and Christine Noël
