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“What we’re really trying to convey here is a living, breathing creature who happens to be a stop-motion animated puppet. So how do we do that? If I perform those actions well, my breathing is likely to be correct for a senior citizen trying to sit down or wave his arms around.”
This is the second Oscar nomination for Montreal-based animators Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre and Jean-François Lévesque. Their first was for the 2007 National Film Board of Canada (NFB) short, *Madame Tutli-Putli*.
“We’re thrilled to be representing the country of Canada and the National film Board of Canada at this year’s Academy Awards festivity,” Saint-Pierre and Lévesque said in a joint statement to CBC News.
Colm feore, who voices a character in *The Girl Who Cried
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