Synopsis

After losing his best friend, an elderly pug named Henry must depend on his owner for help and companionship. Writer/director Ann Marie Fleming (Window Horses) makes visible the tender work of caretaking in her new animated short, Old Dog. All dogs (and people) should be so lucky and so loved.

Ann Marie Fleming

Ann Marie Fleming is an award-winning Canadian writer, director, and animator. Her cross-platform work contends with themes of family and history through a variety of genres, including animation, documentary, and drama. She adapted her 2003 animated documentary, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, into an Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel in 2007, and has since created a number of acclaimed short films, including Big Trees (2013), I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors (2010), and the animated web series My Place (2009) for Discovery USA’s Planetgreen.com. In 2016, Ann Marie’s animated feature Window Horses, about a young Canadian poet discovering her family history, screened around the world.