Canada / Oct 20, 2019
15min
Overall average
5.0/10
Plot
When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in awe of the creature than young Winton Cook, who became inseparable from his mammoth new friend. Using painterly animation, photographs and home-movie treasures, Balakrishna transmits the wistfulness of childhood memories, while evoking themes of friendship and loss, and issues of immigration and elephant conservation.
Genres
AnimationDocumentary
Technical details
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Original title | Balakrishna |
| Original language | English (EN) |
| Spoken languages | English |
| Production countries | Canada |
| Status | Released |
| Production companies | ONF | NFB |
| Official site | nfb.ca |
| Release date | 20 ottobre 2019 |
| Executive producer | Annette Clarke |
| Production | Maral Mohammadian, Jon Montes, Teri Snelgrove, Mylène Augustin, Kat Baulu |
| Writer | Aparna Kapur, Colin Mackenzie |
| Editing | Denis Pilon |
| Cinematography | Santosh Sivan |
| Assistant directors | Aparna Kapur, Colin Mackenzie |
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| Camera operators | Santosh Sivan |
| Additional photography | Santosh Sivan |
| Production design | Cynthia Ouellet |
| Art direction | Cynthia Ouellet |
| Set decoration | Cynthia Ouellet |
| Music | Judith Gruber-Stitzer, Geoff Mitchell, Jean-Paul Vialard, Karla Baumgardner, Jamie Mahaffey |
| Sound | Geoff Mitchell, Jean-Paul Vialard, Karla Baumgardner, Jamie Mahaffey, Judith Gruber-Stitzer |
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