MY DOG TULIP

Year: 2009
USA: New Yorker Films
UK: Axiom Films
Cast (voices of): Christopher Plummer, Lynn Redgrave, Isabella Rossellini, Peter Gerety, Brian Murray, Euan Morton, Paul Hecht
Directors: Paul Fierlinger, Sandra Fierlinger
Country: USA
USA & UK: 82 mins
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sex references and nudity
USA Release Date: 1 September 2010 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 6 May 2011 (Limited Release)

Synopsis

Featuring the voices of Christopher Plummer, the late Lynn Redgrave, and Isabella Rossellini, MY DOG TULIP is a bittersweet retrospective account of author J R Ackerley’s 16-year relationship with his adopted Alsatian bitch, Tulip. J R Ackerley (1896â€"1967) was a novelist and the literary editor of the BBC magazine, The Listener for many years.

MY DOG TULIP was written, directed and animated by award-winning filmmakers Paul and Sandra Fierlinger and is the first animated feature ever to be entirely hand drawn and painted utilizing paperless computer technology.