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Ryan(Movie, 2004)

13min | Genres: Documentary, Animation, Drama, Fantasy
RyanRating: 3.5/5 (with 2424 votes)
Ryan is a 2004 short animated documentary film created and directed by Chris Landreth about Canadian animator Ryan Larkin, who had lived on skid row in Montreal as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. Landreth's chance meeting with Larkin in 2000 inspired him to develop the film, which took 18 months to complete. It was co-produced by Copper Heart Entertainment and the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and its creation and development is the subject of the NFB documentary Alter Egos. The film incorporated material from archive sources, particularly Larkin's works at the NFB. The film is an animated interpretation of an interview of Larkin by Landreth, and includes interviews with Larkin's previous partner and coworkers, as well as Landreth. Development of the characters was partially inspired by the plastinated human bodies of the Body Worlds exhibition. The distorted and disembodied appearance of the film's characters is based on Landreth's use of psychological realism to portray emotion visually, and expression is modelled by use of straight ahead animation. The animation was created at the Animation Arts Centre of Seneca College in Toronto. Some of the animation was based on cords... ()
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Awards & Nominations for Ryan

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

About Ryan

Centring around Canadian animator Ryan Larkin. Who in later years lived on skid row in Montreal following a history of drug and alcohol abuse.

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Production country: Canada
Shot in: Montreal
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 7 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 05/17/2004
Director: Chris Landreth
Producer: Steve Hoban
Screenwriter: Chris Landreth

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