Every Child is an animated short film produced in 1979 by the National Film Board of Canada in association with UNICEF.

Every Child
Directed byEugene Fedorenko
Written byDerek Lamb
Bernard Carez
Raymond Pollender
Produced byDerek Lamb
StarringBernard Carez
Sophie Cowling
Raymond Pollender
CinematographyJacques Avoine
Robert Humble
Richard Moras
Music byNormand Roger
Production
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Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
UNICEF
Release date
  • September 1979 (1979-09)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguagesEnglish
French
Budget$67,778

It is a film without words, incorporating sounds by Les Mîmes Électriques (The Electric Mimes).[1]

Plot

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This animated short tells the story of a child rejected from every home, then found by two tramps who give her love and tenderness.[1]

Cast

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  • Bernard Carez
  • Sophie Cowling as the Child
  • Raymond Pollender

Production

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Every Child was an UNICEF sponsored film created by the National Film Board of Canada in order to promote the Declaration of Children's Rights. The film was directed and animated by Eugene Fedorenko and written by Derek Lamb and Les Mîmes électriques. It had a budget of $67,778 (equivalent to $266,198 in 2023). Fedorenko later lost his job at the NFB due to budgetary problems in March 1980.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Every Child". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Toronto International Film Festival.
  2. ^ Evans 1991, p. 263.

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