Profile is an animated short film about surveillance and disposable identities.
A woman is profiled by an airport detection device. Found to be a threat, she has only seconds in which
to come up with a strategy to reverse the machine’s decision.
This disquieting socio-political allegory is centered around the technology adopted by 21st century
Western culture desperate to control and to contain.
A film for the thoughtful mind.
Written, directed, and animated by Sharon Katz
Original music by Pierre Yves Drapeau
Sound design by Normand Roger and Pierre Yves Drapeau
HD Video / DVD / colour
4 min 30 sec
2008
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Funding support from the following is gratefullyacknowledged:
NFB Animation Filmmaker Assistance
Produced with a
Bravo!FACT Grant, supported by Bravo! NewStyleArtsChannel
Profile airs on
"Bravo!FACT Presents" (CTV Globemedia)
Awards
Best Animation, Picture This Film Festival (Canada)
Shoestring Trophy, Rochester International Film Festival (USA)
Festivals
A-tube Global Animation Film Festival (Italy)
Simona Gesmundo International Festival of Animated Short Film (Italy)
Picture This Film Festival (Canada)
Odense International Film Festival (Denmark)
Luminato Toronto Festivals of Arts + Culture (Canada)
Rochester International Film Festival (USA)
South Beach International Animation Festival (USA)
Melbourne International Animation Festival (Australia)
Anifest International Festival of Audio-Visual Animated Films (Czech Republic)
San Francisco Women's Film Festival (USA)
Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Canada)
Kalamazoo Animation Festival International (USA)
Sedona International Film Festival (USA)
Anchorage International Film Festival (USA)
Victoria Film Festival (Canada)
St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival (Canada)
Vilnius International Animation Film Festival Tindirindis (Lithuania)
Montreal World Film Festival (Canada) premiere