Carface
FrenchAutos Portraits
Directed byClaude Cloutier
Produced byJulie Roy
Edited byMichel Pelland
Music byJean-Philippe Goncalves
Production
company
Release date
  • June 15, 2015 (2015-06-15)
Running time
4 minutes
CountryCanada

Carface (French: Autos Portraits) is a 2015 National Film Board of Canada animated short film by Claude Cloutier in which cars sing and dance while the Earth slides toward environmental ruin.[1]

The film's central character is a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air that sings "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)."[2]

The film received the Prix Guy-L.-Coté Best Canadian Animation Film at the Sommets du cinéma d'animation in Montreal,[1] and was selected as one of Canada's submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.[3] The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards,[4] and won the Québec Cinéma Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards.[5] It also won a Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation at the 2016 Yorkton Film Festival.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Wolfe, Jennifer (30 November 2015). "Claude Cloutier's 'Carface' Wins at 2015 Sommets du cinéma d'animation". Animation World Network. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  2. Amidi, Amid (13 October 2015). "'Now I Hate to Draw Cars:' An Interview with 'Carface' Director Claude Cloutier". Cartoon Brew. Retrieved 1 December 2015.
  3. "NFB animated short films make Academy Awards shortlist". The Canadian Press. CBC News. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
  4. Furdyk, Brent (19 January 2016). "2016 Canadian Screen Awards Nominees Announced". ET Canada. Archived from the original on January 23, 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  5. "La passion d’Augustine triomphe". Le Journal de Montréal, March 20, 2016.
  6. "Our Collection: Carface / Autos Portraits". National Film Board of Canada. 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-08-20. Retrieved 11 December 2020.


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