To Build a Fire (film)

To Build a Fire (French: Construire un Feu) is a 2016 French animated short film directed by Fx Goby adapted from the 1902 and 1908 short story "To Build a Fire" by Jack London. The film has been presented in a number of festivals including the Cannes Film Festival,^[1] the Anibar International Animation Festival,^[2] the New Orleans Film Festival^[3] and the Rhode Island International Film Festival where it won the prize for best animation.^[4]

To Build a Fire
Directed by	Fx Goby
Written by	Jack London
Produced by	Samuel François-Steininger Chris O'reilly Charlotte Bavasso Christel Delahaye
Starring	Tony Fish
Music by	Mathieu Alvado
Release date	25 May 2016 (2016-05-25) (Forum des images)
Running time	13 minutes
Countries	France United Kingdom
Language	English

The film was partially funded through Indiegogo, an American crowdfunding platform.^[5]

Premise

In the harshness of midwinter, an unnamed man attempts to travel across ten miles of Yukon wilderness to arrive at a camp where his friends are while bracing temperatures dropping to seventy-five degrees below zero with his companion, a wolf-dog. Struggling to survive, he makes multiple attempts to build a simple fire.^[6]

Awards

• "Animation Grand Prize", Rhode Island International Film Festival 2016
• "Best International Animation", Shorts Mexico 2016
• "Special Accolade", Animaze Montreal Animation Film Festival 2016
• "Best Original Score", Fimucine Canary Island film festival 2016

The short was also included in The animation Showcase Best of the year 2016.