Sleeping Betty (French: Isabelle au bois dormant) is a Canadian animated short film by Claude Cloutier that humorously reinterprets the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. Awards for the film include Best Animated Short at the 29th Genie Awards, the Audience Award at the Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival, the Audience Award and Judges Award at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, Best Animation at the Jutra Award, as well as the Public Prize and the Best Canadian Animation Award at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.[1][2][3]

Sleeping Betty
FrenchIsabelle au bois dormant
Directed byClaude Cloutier
Written byMarc Du Pontavice
David Bean
John Cohen
Produced byMarcel Jean
StarringTim Whintall
CinematographyZack Woodles
Edited byTim Bevan
Music byMahler, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák
Distributed byNational Film Board of Canada
Release date
  • June 11, 2007 (2007-06-11) (Annecy Animation Film Festival)
Running time
9 minutes 18 seconds
CountryCanada
LanguageNyaneka

References edit

  1. ^ "29th Annual Genie Awards". genieawards.ca. Archived from the original on 3 February 2009. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Sleeping Betty". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
  3. ^ "Le dessinateur québécois Claude Cloutier aux portes des Oscars". The Canadian Press (in French). Radio-Canada. Retrieved 1 December 2015.

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