Flawed (film)

Flawed
Film poster
FrenchImparfaite
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Directed byAndrea Dorfman
Written byAndrea Dorfman
Produced byAnnette Clarke
Music byDorval
Release date
  • June 2010 (2010-06) (Worldwide Short Film Festival)[1]
Running time
12 minutes[3]
CountryCanada

Flawed is a 2010 short animated documentary film and website by Halifax filmmaker Andrea Dorfman about body image, combining stop-motion animation and hand-painted images. Flawed was produced in Halifax by Annette Clarke for the National Film Board of Canada.[4]

According to Dorfman, the film was created to resemble a storyboard because it was based on a series of postcards that she has sent to a boyfriend while they were in a long-distance relationship. While Flawed is an autobiographical work, she also believes that it is universal because "I believe everyone has felt flawed at some point in their lives."[5]

In July 2012, the film version of Flawed received a nomination in the category New Approaches to News and Documentary Programming: Documentaries at the 33rd annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards. The film was nominated following its August 23, 2011 premiere on the PBS series POV.[4][6]

The film's awards also included an audience choice award at the New York City Short Film Festival.[7] Festival selections included a premiere at the 2010 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.[8]

  1. ^ "Five NFB Animations Presented At The Worldwide Short Film Festival". Animation World Network. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  2. ^ "Adav Projections - Informations serveur".
  3. ^ http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/medias/mediakit/Flawed_Presskit.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  4. ^ a b Cooke, Stephen (21 July 2012). "Halifax filmmaker Dorfman nabs Emmy nomination". Halifax Chronicle-Herald. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  5. ^ Matlin, Julie (29 April 2010). "Hot Docs special: 3 questions with Flawed director Andrea Dorfman" (Interview). NFB.ca Blog. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  6. ^ "Flawed". POV website. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Flawed". Collection. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  8. ^ Bell, Robert (2010). "Flawed Directed by Andrea Dorfman" (Review). Exclaim!. Retrieved 7 August 2012.