''Sunday'' (french: Dimanche) is a Canadian animated

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Patrick Doyon Patrick Doyon is a Canadian animator and illustrator, based in Montreal, Quebec. ''Dimanche'' On January 24, 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the animated short film '' Sunday (Dimanche)'', which was inspired by his experiences gr ...

. The film debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2011 and online on January 5, 2012. ''Dimanche'' is the first professional film by Doyon, a native of

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. Doyon had previously created a three-minute animated short ''Square Roots'' in 2006, while enrolled in the NFB's Hothouse program for young animators. Still learning how to use

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tools, he worked with pen and pencil to create ''Dimanche'', hand drawing the entire film. The 10-minute film took him two years to complete, creating individual drawings on paper, working on a light table. Doyon ended up with 15 boxes full of sheets with sketches, which he then scanned into the computer, colourized and began editing. Doyon believes such traditional animation techniques are better for portraying emotion.

Awards

The film was nominated

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at the 84th Academy Awards as well as Best Animated Short Subject at the

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. It also received the ASIFA-Colorado Award for the Best Animated Short at the 34th Denver Film Festival. It also received Quebec’s Prix Jutra for best animated short.

Plot

''Dimanche'' tells the story of a young boy who goes to his grandparents' house in a small town in Quebec after church on Sunday. Bored with the adult world, he wanders outside to indulge his hobby of creating

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s by placing them on train tracks. Doyon has said that the film is inspired by his youth in

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References

External links

* Watc
''Dimanche''
on the NFB website * * * {{Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film 2011 films Canadian animated short films National Film Board of Canada animated short films Quebec films Films set in Quebec 2010s animated short films 2011 animated films Animated films without speech 2010s Canadian films Best Animated Short Film Jutra and Iris Award winners