The Ballad of Immortal Joe

2015 Canadian film

September 12, 2015 (2015-09-12) (TIFF)

Running time

7 minutesCountryCanadaLanguageEnglish

The Ballad of Immortal Joe is a Canadian animated short film, which premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Hector Herrera and written and produced by Pazit Cahlon, the film is a tribute to the cowboy poetry of Robert W. Service.^[1] The film, the third installment in Herrera's "Beastly Bards" series of animated shorts, is narrated by actor Kenneth Welsh, and soundtracked by the alternative country band The Sadies.^[1]

In 2016 the film won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Third Beastly Bards Short Premiering at TIFF". Animation Magazine, September 3, 2015.
^ "'Room' sweeps Canadian Screen Awards". Toronto Sun, March 134, 2016.

External links

The Ballad of Immortal Joe at IMDb
Video on Vimeo

Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Animated Short, Best Live Action Short and Best Theatrical Short

Theatrical Short
(1949–1996)

Who Will Teach Your Child? (1949)
North Shore (1950)
After Prison, What? (1951)
Opera School (1952)
L'Homme aux oiseaux (1953)
Farewell Oak Street (1954)
High Tide in Newfoundland¹ (1955)
Gold (1956)
The Sceptre and the Mace (1958)
Money Minters, The Quest and The Tall Country (1959)
Royal River (1960)
Universe (1961)
Morning on the Lièvre (1962)
Nahanni (1963)
Anniversary (1964)
Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate and Ça n'est pas le temps des romans (1968)
Vertige and At Home (1969)
A Matter of Fat and Blake (1970)
Don't Knock the Ox (1971)
This Is a Photograph (1972)
Goodbye Sousa (1973)
Along These Lines (1975)
Cooperage (1976)
Spartree (1977)
L'Affaire Bronswik (1978)
Nails (1980)
The Strongest Man in the World (1981)
Zea (1982)
Elvis Gratton (1983)
Ted Baryluk's Grocery (1984)
Charade (1985)
George and Rosemary (1988)
Saeed (1991)
Arrowhead (1994)
Les fleurs magiques (1995)
The Home for Blind Women (1996)

Live Action Short
(1986–present)

The Edit (1986)
I Need a Man Like You to Make My Dreams Come True (1987)
The Mysterious Moon Men of Canada (1989)
In Search of the Last Good Man (1990)
Battle of the Bulge (1992)
The Fairy Who Didn't Want to Be a Fairy Anymore (1993)
The Hangman's Bride (1997)
When Ponds Freeze Over (1998)
Moving Day (1999)
Le P'tit Varius (2000)
The Heart of the World (2001)
I Shout Love (2002)
Noël Blank (2003)
Capacité 11 personnes (2004)
Milo 55160 (2005)
Le rouge au sol (2006)
Après tout (2007)
Next Floor (2008)
Danse Macabre (2009)
Savage (2010)
Doubles with Slight Pepper (2011)
Throat Song (2012)
Noah (2013)
Hole (2014)
She Stoops to Conquer (2015)
Mutants (2016)
Fluffy (2017)
Fauve (2018)
Pick (2019)
Black Bodies (2020)
Girls Shouldn't Walk Alone at Night (2021)
Simo (2022)
Motherland (2023)

Animated Short
(1968–present)

Un enfant...un pays¹ (1968)
Walking (1969)
To See or Not to See (1970)
Evolution (1971)
Dans la vie... (1972)
The Family That Dwelt Apart (1973)
The Owl Who Married a Goose (1975)
The Street (1976)
Spinnolio (1977)
Afterlife (1978)
Every Child (1980)
The Big Snit (1986)
Get a Job (1987)
The Cat Came Back (1989)
Juke-Bar (1990)
Strings (1992)
Pearl's Diner (1993)
La vieille dame et les pigeons (1997)
Bingo (1998)
When the Day Breaks (1999)
Village of Idiots (2000)
The Boy Who Saw the Iceberg (2001)
The Hungry Squid (2002)
Falling in Love Again (2003)
Ryan (2004)
cNote (2005)
The Danish Poet (2006)
Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)
Isabelle au bois dormant (2008)
Runaway (2009)
Lipsett Diaries (2010)
Romance (2011)
Paula (2012)
Subconscious Password (2013)
Me and My Moulton (2014)
The Ballad of Immortal Joe (2015)
Blind Vaysha (2016)
The Tesla World Light (2017)
Animal Behaviour (2018)
Giant Bear (2019)
Hot Flash (2020)
Angakusajaujuq: The Shaman's Apprentice (2021)
The Flying Sailor (2022)
Where Rabbits Come From (2023)

¹ These two films were given honorable mentions rather than officially winning the award, but are included here as no other winner was named above them.