Canada’s only Oscar-winner to debut on CBC
The Danish Poet, the 2007 Academy Award-winning animated short film co-produced by The National Film Board of Canada will debut on CBC this Sunday, March 4 at midnight. (Technically speaking, on Monday.)
Montreal-based Torill Kove’s The Danish Poet is narrated by multi-award winning Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann and follows Kasper, a poet whose creative well has run dry, on a holiday to Norway to meet a famous writer. As his quest for inspiration unfolds, it appears that a spell of bad weather, an angry dog, slippery barn planks, a careless postman, hungry goats and other seemingly unrelated factors might play important roles in the big scheme of things after all.
It’ll air on Canadian Reflections, the the longest running showcase of independent short films, highlighting the first documentaries, dramas and animated films from up-and-coming Canadian directors, producers and writers.
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Hello Tod,
Thanks for blogging about it. I will record it and watch.
Cheers,
Kempton
At midnight! We have but one lonely Oscar and we air it at midnight?
No wonder many Canadians know that the NFB has won tons of Oscars but that NOBODY has really seen them….what a shame.
JMG has a point. may be the show can be re-aired at a better time slot later.
It depends on how you define premiere. The NFB has it online here:
http://www.nfb.ca/webextension/oscars/index.php?lg=en
Thanks Philip for the NFB link. What a great short film. I highly recommend it.
Now, why didn’t CBC put out that link to NFB? And is there better means to help NFB spread its news and awards winning films? A great film sat unwatched is a very sad thing for us all.
[...] Oscar winning animator Torill Kove’s wonderful work The Danish Poet online at NFB. [Thanks to Philip Moscovitch for the [...]
Frankly airing this at midnight is a huge “screw you” to the filmmakers.
Why isn’t the CBC airing more NFB material? Decades of petty infighting maybe?