Every Child

Every Child (1979)

This animated short follows an unwanted baby who is passed from house to house. The film is the Canadian contribution to an hour-long feature film celebrating UNESCO's Year of the Child (1979). It illustrates one of the ten principles of the Declaration of Children's Rights: every child is entitled to a name and a nationality. The film took home an Oscar® for Best Animated Short Film.

Date of release
1979-09-01
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (37)
Runtime
6m
Genres
Comedy, Animation, Music, Family
Director
Eugene Fedorenko

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $67.8K
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Every Child is an animated short film produced in 1979 by the National Film Board of Canada in association with UNICEF.

Production

Every Child was a UNICEF sponsored film created by the National Film Board of Canada in order to promote the Declaration of Children's Rights. The film was directed and animated by Eugene Fedorenko and written by Derek Lamb and Les Mîmes électriques. It had a budget of $67,778 (equivalent to $278,229 in 2025). Fedorenko later lost his job at the NFB due to budgetary problems in March 1980.

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended