Noël Noël | |
Director: | Nicola Lemay |
Producer: | Marc Bertrand Jean-Jacques Leduc Marcy Page |
Narrator: | Leslie Nielsen Benoît Brière |
Music: | Daniel Scott |
Studio: | Teletoon |
Distributor: | National Film Board of Canada |
Runtime: | 22 minutes |
Country: | Canada |
Language: | English French |
Noël Noël is a 22-minute animated short produced by the National Film Board of Canada in 2003 as a Christmas special. It was directed by Nicola Lemay and written by Martin Barry. The English-language version was adapted by John Weldon and narrated by Leslie Nielsen.[1] The original French-language version was narrated by Benoît Brière.[2]
Awards for the film included the Prix Gémeaux for Best Animated Program or Series and an Award of Excellence in the category of Animation age 6 - 8 from the Alliance for Children and Television.[3]
In the United States, the short aired on Cartoon Network.
Billionaire businessman Noel Noël is rich but rude. He falls for a fairy named Beatrice, and tries to win her love with material gifts before learning the true meaning of love from a little girl named Zoey Murphy, her dog Snooze, and a blue-eyed reindeer.[4]