Carface

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Carface
French Autos Portraits
Directed by Claude Cloutier
Produced by Julie Roy
Edited byMichel Pelland
Music by Jean-Philippe Goncalves
Production
company
Release date
  • June 15, 2015 (2015-06-15)
Running time
4 minutes
CountryCanada

Carface (French : Autos Portraits) is a 2015 National Film Board of Canada animated short film by Claude Cloutier in which cars sing and dance while the Earth slides toward environmental ruin. [1]

The film's central character is a 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air that sings "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)." [2]

The film received the Prix Guy-L.-Coté Best Canadian Animation Film at the Sommets du cinéma d'animation in Montreal, [1] and was selected as one of Canada's submissions for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. [3] The film was a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards, [4] and won the Québec Cinéma Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 18th Quebec Cinema Awards. [5] It also won a Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation at the 2016 Yorkton Film Festival. [6]

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