Animator Torill Kove was honored at Spark Animation in Vancouver for her Lifetime Achievement Award and Canadian Film Prize for her latest short film, Maybe Elephants.

Kove, a Norwegian filmmaker living in Canada, has had three Academy Award nominations and won in 2007 for The Danish Poet.

Maybe Elephants has won multiple festival awards and is in consideration for the Academy Awards. Kove expressed gratitude for the recognition and sees it as motivation to continue creating films.

Maybe Elephants, a collaboration between NFB and Mikrofilm, tells a family’s story in 1970s Nairobi. The film is continuing its festival tour and has been selected by over 20 festivals.

The short is produced by Lise Fearnley and Tonje Skar Reiersen for Mikrofilm and NFB’s Maral Mohammadian.

Person: Torill Kove, Liv Ullmann
Company Names: Spark Animation, National Film Board of Canada, Mikrofilm
Titles: Maybe Elephants, My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts, Me and My Moulton, The Danish Poet

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