Room on the Broom is a 2012 short stop motion computer animated television film based on the picture book written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. The film was nominated for the Best Animated Short Film at the 2014 Academy Awards.[1] It also won the British Academy Children's Award for Animation in 2013.[2]
Directed by Max Lang and Jan Lachauer, the film was produced by Martin Pope and Michael Rose of Magic Light Pictures, London, in association with Orange Eyes Limited.
It was first broadcast on BBC One on Tuesday 25 December 2012[3] before being released on DVD in March 2013 by Magic Light Pictures. It then aired in the United States on PBS Kids Sprout as a Halloween special, on 30 October 2013, and then aired in the United States on PBS Kids as a Christmas special, on 1 December 2017 – 9 December 2018.
Voice cast
- Simon Pegg as Narrator
- Gillian Anderson as Witch
- Rob Brydon as Cat
- Timothy Spall as Dragon
- Martin Clunes as Dog
- Sally Hawkins as Bird
- David Walliams as Frog
See also
References
- ^ Chilton, Martin (16 January 2014). "Julia Donaldson film Room on the Broom earns Oscar nomination". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
- ^ "Children's in 2013". British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
- ^ "Room on the Broom". BBC One. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
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