Room on the Broom (film)

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Room on the Broom
GenreChildren's
Fantasy
Based on Room on the Broom
by Julia Donaldson
Written by Julia Donaldson
Axel Scheffler
Story by Julia Donaldson
Directed by Max Lang
Jan Lachauer
Voices of Gillian Anderson
Rob Brydon
Timothy Spall
Martin Clunes
Sally Hawkins
David Walliams
Narrated by Simon Pegg
Theme music composer René Aubry
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Germany
Original languagesEnglish
German
Production
Producers Martin Pope
Michael Rose
CinematographyPepi Lenzi
Editor Robin Sales
Running time30 minutes
Production companiesOrange Eyes Limited
Magic Light Pictures
Studio Soi
BBC
Original release
Network BBC One
Release25 December 2012 (2012-12-25)

Room on the Broom is a 2012 short stop motion computer animated television film based on the picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The film was nominated for the Best Animated Short Film at the 2014 Academy Awards. [1] It also won the British Academy Children's Award for Animation in 2013. [2]

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Directed by Max Lang and Jan Lachauer, the film was produced by Martin Pope and Michael Rose of Magic Light Pictures, London, in association with Orange Eyes Limited.

It was first broadcast on BBC One on Tuesday 25 December 2012 [3] before being released on DVD in March 2013 by Magic Light Pictures. It then aired in the United States on PBS Kids Sprout as a Halloween special, on 30 October 2013, and then aired in the United States on PBS Kids as a Christmas special, on 1 December 2017 – 9 December 2018.

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References

  1. ↑ Chilton, Martin (16 January 2014). "Julia Donaldson film Room on the Broom earns Oscar nomination". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "Children's in 2013". British Academy of Film and Television Arts . Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  3. ↑ "Room on the Broom". BBC One . Retrieved 21 March 2021.


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