DEAD CAT

A film by Annie-Claude Caron & Danick Audet

30 + awards including

Shortlisted for the 96th Academy Awards (Best Live Action Short Film)

Best Narrative Short – Tribeca Festival

Best Comedy Short – Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival

Best Short Film for Youth – KUKI Festival

Audience Choice Narrative Short – Calgary International Film Festival

80+ festivals selections including

Tribeca Festival, BAFICI, KUKI Festival, Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market, Pragueshorts Film Festival, Festival REGARD, Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival, Calgary International Film Festival, Edmonton International Film Festival, Milwaukee Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Sydney Short Film Festival, Bucharest Short Film Festival

What were Catherine and Louis thinking when they chose a cat with distinctive white spots? It would have been much easier to replace if they had picked the all-back one! Now, they will have to tell their daughter Sophie that Nugget’s dead. Unless…

WRITTEND & DIRECTED BY: Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet

PRODUCED BY: Astrid Barrette Tessier, Sophie Valcourt, Fanny-Laure Malo, Annie-Claude Quirion

STARRING Léane Labrèche-Dor, Pierre-Yves Cardinal & Lilas-Rose Cantin

WITH Évelyne Rompré, Fayolle Jean Jr., Kevin Houle, Jean Drolet, Lila-Sofia Houle, Thomas Haché, Eliam Garceau

CINEMATOGRAPER: Shawn Pavlin

PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Pierre-Olivier Cadieux

SOUND: François Pinet-Forcier, Jean-François B. Sauvé, Luc Boudrias

EDITOR: Amélie Labrèche

ORIGINAL SCORE: Laurent Emmanuel Malo, Léandre Meilleur

COSTUMES: Kelly-Anne Bonieux

MAKEUP & HAIR: Anaïs Côté

Produced with the financial participation of SODEC and the Quebec and Canadian tax credits

In association with UnisTV and MELS

** No animals were harmed in the making of this film**

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