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FERNTV interview with Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis of The Flying Sailor

Third time might be the charm for Canadian animation duo to receive an Oscar

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Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby‘s NFB animated short film The Flying Sailor has been nominated for Best Animation Short Film at The Academy Awards.

The National Film Board project is the 77th production that has been nominated for an Academy Award.

The Flying Sailor is inspired by the incredible true-life story of a man blown two kilometres through the air by the 1917 Halifax Explosion—the largest accidental non-nuclear explosion in history.

This is the third trip to the Oscars for the Calgary-based animation duo of Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby, who  previously shared Best Animated Short Film Academy Award nominations for their NFB films When the Day Breaks(1999) and Wild Life (2011). Wendy Tilby was also nominated individually for her first film with the NFB, Strings(1991).

The 95th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.

The Flying Sailor is now online at The New Yorker’s digital channels (Canada and U.S.) and nfb.ca(Canada).

Please click on the FERNTV interview above with Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Watch The Flyins Sailor trailer by clicking above

Fernando Fernandez is a graduate of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. He became interested in entertainment journalism in the late 2000s writing for online startups. He founded FERNTV in 2009 and focused mainly on the film industry. With over a thousand interviews conducted with all walks of life in film, he is still learning as if every day is day one.

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