The Sparky Book
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Directed by | Mary Lewis |
Produced by | Annette Clarke |
Written by | Mary Lewis |
Starring | Maggie Hickey Joel Thomas Hynes Leah Lewis Gordon Pinsent |
Cinematography | Eli M. Yonova |
Edited by | Lawrence Jackman Mary Lewis |
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14 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Budget | $CAD274,000 (estimated) |
The Sparky Book is a 2006 animated/live-action short film by Newfoundland filmmaker Mary Lewis, about the near-death of a young girl who undergoes heart transplant surgery, and the death of her beloved pet dog, Sparky.[1]
The story is based on the experiences of the director's own sister, Leah, who had two kidney transplants as a child. Michael Winter wrote a short story The Sparky Book after their dog had died. Director Lewis then loosely based her film on the short story. The film is narrated by a goldfish, voiced by Gordon Pinsent, with voice of Sparky by Joel Thomas Hynes. Leah Lewis appears in the film as "Bridget," a character based upon herself.[2][3]
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada, the film received the Golden Sheaf Award for best experimental film and the Bill Boyle Award for Excellence in Screenwriting at Flicks: Saskatchewan International Youth Film Festival.[4] In 2008, The Sparky Book was the sole film from Newfoundland and Labrador to selected to CBC TV's "Short Film Faceoff", a six-part series showcasing films from Atlantic Canada.[2][3]
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- Watch The Sparky Book at NFB.ca
- The Sparky Book at IMDbLua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 2006 films
- English-language films
- National Film Board of Canada animated shorts
- Films based on short fiction
- Films set in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Films with live action and animation
- Films about dogs
- Biographical films about children
- Films shot in Newfoundland and Labrador
- 2000s animated short films
- 2006 animated films