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  • Madison Yeats
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Belle and Sébastien. Dir. Nicolas Vanier. Gaumont. 2013.
Belle and Sébastien. Dir. Nicolas Vanier. Gaumont. 2013. 150 150 Madison Yeats

Belle and Sébastien Synopsis It is the summer of 1943 in a small village in France and there is something disturbing the livestock of the area. Sébastian, a young orphaned…

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  • Abbie Malley
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Animals: Friend or Food?. Dir. Jason Young . National Film Board of Canada. 2003.
Animals: Friend or Food?. Dir. Jason Young . National Film Board of Canada. 2003. 150 150 Abbie Malley

Animals, a documentary film directed by Jason Young, follows a young couple’s journey through a year-long experiment in raising their own livestock on a farm in Nova Scotia. The re-birth of…

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  • Loredana Loy
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The Plague Dogs. Dir. Martin Rosen. United Artists Corporation. 1982.
The Plague Dogs. Dir. Martin Rosen. United Artists Corporation. 1982. 150 150 Loredana Loy

The Plague Dogs – Revival of a Masterpiece* By Loredana Loy Based on the book with the same title by Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs (1982) is a one of a kind movie. Snitter and…

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  • Alanna Sachse
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Babe. Dir. Chris Noonan. Universal Pictures. 1995.
Babe. Dir. Chris Noonan. Universal Pictures. 1995. 150 150 Alanna Sachse

Based on Dick King Smith’s “The Sheep Pig”, Babe is the story of a young pig that is taken in by sheep dogs and the farmer Hoggett who eventually becomes a…

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  • Christian Tuckell
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Earthlings. Dir. Shaun Monson. Nation Earth. 2005.
Earthlings. Dir. Shaun Monson. Nation Earth. 2005. 150 150 Christian Tuckell

Fig. 1 The original release poster for Earthlings, the film’s oft repeated challenge to the viewer to ‘make the connection’ features prominently alongside pictures of plants, animals and the evil emperor…

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  • Laura Reusswig
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How to Train Your Dragon. Dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders. Paramount Pictures. 2010.
How to Train Your Dragon. Dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders. Paramount Pictures. 2010. 150 150 Laura Reusswig

Dreamworks’s 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking whose village is regularly attacked by dragons. Due to his physical weakness and lack of fighting skills…

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  • Jack Collier
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A Close Shave. Dir. Nick Park. BBC. 1995.
A Close Shave. Dir. Nick Park. BBC. 1995. 150 150 Jack Collier

Following the great success of director Nick Park’s A Grand Day Out in 1990 and 1993’s The Wrong Trousers, eccentric inventor Wallace and his canine companion Gromit returned in 1995…

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  • Anna Fraser
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Brokeback Mountain. Dir. Ang Lee. Focus Features. 2005.
Brokeback Mountain. Dir. Ang Lee. Focus Features. 2005. 150 150 Anna Fraser

Brokeback Mountain Based on a short story by Annie Proulx published in the New Yorker in 1997, Brokeback Mountain (dir. 2005 Ang lee) opens in 1963 with the meeting of…

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  • Lucy Amos
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The Plague Dogs. Dir. Martin Rosen. United Artists. 1982.
The Plague Dogs. Dir. Martin Rosen. United Artists. 1982. 150 150 Lucy Amos

Based on Richard Adams’ 1977 novel of the same name, The Plague Dogs[1] follows the story of Rowf and Snitter, who escape from an animal research centre after Rowf’s cage is left…

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  • Bethan Davies
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Doctor Dolittle. Dir. Richard Fleischer. 20th-Century Fox. 1967.
Doctor Dolittle. Dir. Richard Fleischer. 20th-Century Fox. 1967. 150 150 Bethan Davies

The genesis for Richard Fleischer’s 1967 film Doctor Dolittle came from Hugh Lofting’s successful chain of children’s books first published in 1920, and focuses on the character of a veterinarian named John…

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