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2018 short documentary film

My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes
Film poster
Directed by	Charlie Tyrell
Written by	Josef Beeby Charlie Tyrell
Produced by	Julie Baldassi
Narrated by	David Wain
Cinematography	Chet Tilokani
Edited by	Michael Barker
Music by	Colin Sigor
Production companies	Younger Daughter Films LaRue Productions Milkman Productions
Distributed by	The Atlantic
Release date	January 19, 2018 (2018-01-19)
Running time	14 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes is a 2018 Canadian short documentary film, directed by Charlie Tyrell.

Summary

Blending stop-motion animation, family interviews via phone and live footage, the film depicts Tyrell's attempt to make sense of his complicated relationship with his late father Greg through his remaining possessions, including but not limited to his collection of 1980s porn videotapes.

Accolades

The film was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2018, and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019. It was also shortlisted for Best Documentary Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards.

References

"A portrait of a lost parent". Hamilton Spectator, January 24, 2019.
"How Our Oscar Contender From Op-Docs Came to Be". The New York Times, January 11, 2019.
"TIFF's Canada's Top Ten list skews a lot younger this year". Now, December 5, 2018.
"Les Québécois remportent plus de la moitié des trophées à l'avant-gala des prix Écrans canadiens". Ici Radio-Canada, March 31, 2019.
"91st Oscar Shortlists". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 3, 2020.

External links

My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes at The Atlantic
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes at IMDb
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v t e Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary
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Genie Awards 1980–2011	Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980) Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981) P4W: Prison for Women (1982) The Devil at Your Heels (1983) Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984) Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985) Final Offer (1986) Dads and Kids (1987) God Rides a Harley (1988) Comic Book Confidential (1989) Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990) The Famine Within (1991) Deadly Currents (1992) Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993) In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994) The Champagne Safari (1995) Bones of the Forest (1996) Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997) A Place Called Chiapas (1998) Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999) Grass (2000) Westray (2001) Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002) FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003) The Corporation (2004) Scared Sacred (2005) Manufactured Landscapes (2006) Radiant City (2007) Up the Yangtze (2008) A Hard Name (2009) Last Train Home (2010) At Night, They Dance (2011)
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v t e Films produced by Julie Baldassi
My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018) I Am in the World as Free and Slender as a Deer on a Plain (2019) Wildhood (2021) Tenzin (2021) Darkest Miriam (2024)

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