Luigi Allemano, film animation faculty member at the Mel Hoppenheim
School of Cinema, created the Music and Sound Design for Patrick Doyon's
Dimanche/Sunday, a NFB-produced film that has been nominated for a 2012 Academy Award in the Short Film (Animated) category.
Dimanche/Sunday, Patrick Doyon's first film, is a magical tale that imparts
important lessons about life as seen through the eyes of a child.
In keeping with their Sunday tradition, after mass a family flocks to grandma and grandpa's house, where the chaotic discussion soon begins to resemble a raucous gathering of crows on power lines. The local factory has shut its doors and, naturally, the adults can't stop fretting about their money woes. On this particular grey Sunday, a young boy drops a coin on some nearby train tracks out of sheer boredom. Picking the coin up after a train has run over it, he discovers to his astonishment that an amazing transformation has taken place.
Watch the Oscar-nominated film here. (If video does not load, visit the
NFB at the Oscars webpage.)
Allemano was credited with special thanks for his animation and sound editing contribution to another Oscar-nominated animated short film, Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby's
Wild Life. He previously worked as an animator and camera operator on Forbis and Tilby's previous Oscar-nominated film
When The Day Breaks and on Oscar-winner and Concordia alumna Torill Kove's
My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts in 1999.
* UPDATE: Dimanche/Sunday has also been nominated for a 2012 Prix Jutra in the category of Best Animated Film. The Jutra awards ceremony takes place on March 11, 2012. Related links:Updated on Feb. 1, 2012
