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How To Be Alone
Narrated by Tanya Davis to beautiful hand-drawn illustrations by Dorfman, Davis’s eloquent poem is full of powerful truths. With over 9.5 million views on YouTube, the film is an online sensation.
Director
Andrea Dorfman
Dorfman’s short live action/animation collaboration with poet-musician Tanya Davis, How to Be Alone, garnered over 10 million views on YouTube and was adapted into a book published by HarperCollins, illustrated by Dorfman. They made a follow-up, the NFB animation How to Be at Home, during the first Covid lockdown. Dorfman has directed the feature films Parsley Days, Love That Boy, Heartbeat, and Spinster, and animated the NFB shorts Flawed and Big Mouth.
Writer
Tanya Davis
Producers
Walter Forsyth, Andrea Dorfman
Genres
Animation, Experimental
Interest
Female Filmmaker
Original Language
English
Language Version
EN CC
