Red Ballon, The (Le Ballon rouge)
Synopsis
In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatles fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan collaborated with illustrators to create an animated short film using the original interview recording as the soundtrack. A spellbinding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit and timeless message, I Met the Walrus was nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Animated Short and won the 2009 Emmy for “New Approaches.”
Screened as part of a program showing the Academy Award-nominated animated shorts from 2007
