Every Child (film)

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

Every Child
Directed by	Eugene Fedorenko
Written by	Derek Lamb Bernard Carez Raymond Pollender
Produced by	Derek Lamb
Starring	Bernard Carez Sophie Cowling Raymond Pollender
Cinematography	Jacques Avoine Robert Humble Richard Moras
Music by	Normand Roger
Production company	National Film Board of Canada
Distributed by	National Film Board of Canada UNICEF
Release date	September 1979 (1979-09)
Running time	6 minutes
Country	Canada
Languages	English French
Budget	$67,778

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

Plot

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

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

Production

Every Child was a 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]

Awards

• In 1980 Derek Lamb won an Oscar for Best Short Film, Animated at the Academy Awards, United States^[1]
• Best Animation and Special Award, 1st Genie Awards, 1980
• In 1980 Eugene Fedorenko won the OIAF Award for First Films at the Ottawa International Animation Festival