Me and My Moulton

2014 film

Me and My Moulton

Film poster

Directed by| Torill Kove
Written by| Torill Kove
Produced by| Lise Fearnley
Marcy Page
Narrated by| Andrea Bræin Hovig
Edited by| Alison Burns
Music by| Kevin Dean

Production
companies

Mikrofilm
National Film Board of Canada

Release dates

* 10 June 2014 (2014-6-10) (AIAFF)
* 3 December 2014 (2014-12-3) (Norway)

Running time

| 14 minutes
Countries| Canada
Norway
Language| English

Me and My Moulton is a 2014 Canadian-Norwegian animated short film written and directed by Torill Kove.[1] It premiered at the 2014 Annecy International Animated Film Festival on 10 June 2014.[2] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 87th Academy Awards.[3] Me and My Moulton won the Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation at the 2015 Yorkton Film Festival.[4]

## Plot

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Me and My Moulton is a humorous autobiographical short film based on Kove's experiences as a 7-year-old girl in Norway, one of three sisters who long for a bicycle. The film explores the emotions of Kove's character, who is often embarrassed by their unorthodox architect parents.[5]

Kove was quoted in a Toronto Star article as saying the story had been on her mind for years and that her goal was to convey a girl’s conflicting feelings about her parents: "These feelings are not easy for kids. It’s confusing when you don’t have all the insights that you get later in life to realize your parents embarrass you but at the same time you really love them. There are mixed emotions."[5]

## Critical reception

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The Academy Award nomination was the third for Kove, who was also nominated for My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts and her Oscar-winning The Danish Poet, and the 73rd nomination for the National Film Board of Canada.[5] In March 2015, the film was named Best Animated Short at the 3rd Canadian Screen Awards.[6]

## References

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1. ^ "Me and My Moulton". TIFF. Archived from the original on 16 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
2. ^ Schavemaker, Peter (27 May 2014). "Torill Kove Unveils 'Me and My Moulton' Trailer". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
3. ^ "Oscars 2015: Nominations list". BBC News. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
4. ^ "2015 Winners & Nominees". Yorkton Film Festival. Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
5. ^ a b c Barnard, Linda (15 January 2015). "Canadian Torill Kove celebrates her third Oscar nomination". Toronto Star. Retrieved 16 January 2015.
6. ^ Milligan, Mercedes (2 March 2015). "NFB-Produced 'Me and My Moulton' Takes CSA Animated Short Award". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 16 March 2015.

## External links

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* Me and My Moulton on YouTube
* Me and My Moulton at IMDb
* Today, My Short Film Was Nominated For an Oscar, filmmaker's blog, The Huffington Post

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Films of Torill Kove

* My Grandmother Ironed the King's Shirts (1999)
* The Danish Poet (2006)
* Hocus Pocus Alfie Atkins (2013)
* Me and My Moulton (2014)
* Threads (2017)

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Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short

Theatrical Short
(1949–1996)|

* Who Will Teach Your Child? (1949)
* North Shore (1950)
* After Prison, What? (1951)
* Opera School (1952)
* L'Homme aux oiseaux (1953)
* Farewell Oak Street (1954)
* High Tide in Newfoundland1 (1955)
* Gold (1956)
* The Sceptre and the Mace (1958)
* Money Minters, The Quest and The Tall Country (1959)
* Royal River (1960)
* Universe (1961)
* Morning on the Lièvre (1962)
* Nahanni (1963)
* Anniversary (1964)
* Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate and Ça n'est pas le temps des romans (1968)
* Vertige and At Home (1969)
* A Matter of Fat and Blake (1970)
* Don't Knock the Ox (1971)
* This Is a Photograph (1972)
* Goodbye Sousa (1973)
* Along These Lines (1975)
* Cooperage (1976)
* Spartree (1977)
* L'Affaire Bronswik (1978)
* Nails (1980)
* The Strongest Man in the World (1981)
* Zea (1982)
* Elvis Gratton (1983)
* Ted Baryluk's Grocery (1984)
* Charade (1985)
* George and Rosemary (1988)
* Saeed (1991)
* Arrowhead (1994)
* Les fleurs magiques (1995)
* The Home for Blind Women (1996)

Live Action Short
(1986–present)|

* The Edit (1986)
* I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True (1987)
* The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989)
* In Search of the Last Good Man (1990)
* Battle of the Bulge (1992)
* The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1993)
* The Hangman's Bride (1997)
* When Ponds Freeze Over (1998)
* Moving Day (1999)
* Le P'tit Varius (2000)
* The Heart of the World (2001)
* I Shout Love (2002)
* Noël Blank (2003)
* Capacité 11 personnes (2004)
* Milo 55160 (2005)
* Le rouge au sol (2006)
* Après tout (2007)
* Next Floor (2008)
* Danse Macabre (2009)
* Savage (2010)
* Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011)
* Throat Song (2012)
* Noah (2013)
* Hole (2014)
* She Stoops to Conquer (2015)
* Mutants (2016)
* Fluffy (2017)
* Fauve (2018)
* Pick (2019)
* Black Bodies (2020)
* Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night (2021)
* Simo (2022)
* Motherland (2023)

Animated Short
(1968–present)|

* Un enfant...un pays1 (1968)
* Walking (1969)
* To See or Not to See (1970)
* Evolution (1971)
* Dans la vie... (1972)
* The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973)
* The Owl Who Married a Goose (1975)
* The Street (1976)
* Spinnolio (1977)
* Afterlife (1978)
* Every Child (1980)
* The Big Snit (1986)
* Get a Job (1987)
* The Cat Came Back (1989)
* Juke-Bar (1990)
* Strings (1992)
* Pearl's Diner (1993)
* La vieille dame et les pigeons (1997)
* Bingo (1998)
* When the Day Breaks (1999)
* Village of Idiots (2000)
* The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2001)
* The Hungry Squid (2002)
* Falling in Love Again (2003)
* Ryan (2004)
* cNote (2005)
* The Danish Poet (2006)
* Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)
* Isabelle au bois dormant (2008)
* Runaway (2009)
* Lipsett Diaries (2010)
* Romance (2011)
* Paula (2012)
* Subconscious Password (2013)
* Me and My Moulton (2014)
* The Ballad of Immortal Joe (2015)
* Blind Vaysha (2016)
* The Tesla World Light (2017)
* Animal Behaviour (2018)
* Giant Bear (2019)
* Hot Flash (2020)
* Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021)
* The Flying Sailor (2022)
* Where Rabbits Come From (2023)

1 These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.
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