In fact, even before The Chaperone was completely finished, it was entered into a slew of film fests and, among other honours and cash awards, it picked up the Gold Audience Award and Most Creative Short Award at Fantasia and the Coupe du Court Grand Prize for best short in Quebec at Prends ça court.Īrticle content The Chaperone director Fraser Munden and teacher-hero Ralph Whims. Some of the funding for The Chaperone came from Vaseline and Pepper winning $2,500 in technical services for having taken The Norman McLaren Award for best short at the 2010 Montreal World Film Festival. Why I Was Out There deals with an alleged UFO sighting in the Point, while the equally whimsical Vaseline and Pepper focuses on the tale of a 12-year-old who made himself a bogus beard of Vaseline and pepper flakes in order to get into a strip club. The Chaperone is actually the third short in a trilogy based on stories Munden heard while growing up. The narrative is compelling enough in The Chaperone, but I wanted to sensationalize it enough that it could play anywhere and fit into any category.” “To speak truthfully, I try to ram as many gimmicks as humanly possible into my films. “I like to think of my work as an unconventional approach to documentary shorts,” Munden, 29, understates. To keep costs down, the film was made in Munden’s Point St-Charles basement, living room and driveway as well as at a nearby football field. He used over 10,000 hand drawings, many of which he coloured himself.Īnd, oh yeah, Munden claims The Chaperone is the first animated documentary made entirely in stereoscopic 3D. Munden has recreated the story by melding hand-drawn animation, miniature sets, puppets, live action Kung Fu and special-effects explosions. He calls The Chaperone an animated documentary, which sounds simple enough. With such rich and riveting source material, Munden could have easily re-enacted this drama in a live-action film that would have taken just a few weeks to shoot and edit. Whims did get a wee bit of help from the dance DJ, Stefan Czernatowicz, but his martial-arts prowess became the stuff of legend in the Point. Though his students thought he was cool enough a teacher, no one had a clue that Whims was really Point St-Charles’s answer to Bruce Lee, deftly using his arms and legs to effectively neutralize and even hospitalize a few of the dozen desperadoes who disrupted the dance.

Chaperone 3d comic