This might be a true story …

… but, ‘at the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.’ 

Loosely inspired by a real-life event recounted in Paul Auster’s brilliant book ‘True Tales of American Life’, Grant Orchard’s BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated short ‘A Morning Stroll tells the story of one New Yorker’s early morning encounter with a chicken—an event that plays out over 100 years …

A Morning Stroll was premiered at the 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival and screened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it won both Best Animation and the Jury Prize in Animated Short Film respectively.

The film won the BAFTA for Best Short Animation at the 65th British Academy Film Awards

The film was also nominated for an OSCAR in the Best Animated Short Film Category at the 84th Academy Awards.  

Recognition

 2012 Academy Awards — Nominated for Short Animated Film Oscar

 2012 BAFTA — Winner – Short Animated Film

 2012 Sundance Film Festival — Winner – Short Film Jury prize

 2012 BAA — Best Short Film

 2021 Dresden — Audience Award

 2011 Annecy — Junior Jury Award

2011 Edinburgh Int. Film Festival — Nominated for Best New British Animation

 2011 Encounters Int. Film Festival — Best of British Animation