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Directed by | Wendy Tilby |
Produced by | Wendy Tilby |
Animation by | Wendy Tilby |
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Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Tables of Content is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Wendy Tilby and released in 1986. [1] Made as her graduating class project in the filmmaking program at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, the film depicts an elderly man dining alone in a restaurant and observing the sights and sounds around him. [2]
The film premiered at the 1986 Montreal World Film Festival. [3] It was subsequently acquired for distribution by the National Film Board of Canada. [4]
At Montreal, it won the award for Best Short Film. [5] It was later screened at the Yorkton Film Festival, where it won the Golden Sheaf award for Best Animation. [2]
The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short at the 8th Genie Awards in 1987, [6] and was one of five films selected for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's independent short films showcase, a program that gave the winning films commercial screenings in various Canadian markets. [7]
It was submitted for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 59th Academy Awards, but was not a finalist. [8]