Madame Tutli Putli

Madame TutliPutli is a 2007 stop motionanimated short film by Montreal filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, collectively known as Clyde Henry Productions, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada NFB. It is available on the Cinema16 World Short Films DVD as well as from the NFB.

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. Critics lauded the film for its groundbreaking stopmotion animation techniques. Portrait artist Jason Walker created the technique of adding composited human eyes to the stop motion puppets. For the lead character, actress Laurie Maher was recorded acting out the motions, but only her eyes and eyebrows were ultimately visible in the final film.On May 28, 2007, the film won the Canal Grand Prize for best short film along with the Petit Rail dOr, chosen by a group of 100 cinephile railwaymen, at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. In June 2007, Madame TutliPutli won best animated short at the CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto, qualifying it for Academy Award consideration. It received an Oscar nomination in January 2008. ........

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