Top Priority (1981)
9m
Running Time
January 1, 1981Release Date
Top Priority (1981)
9m
Running Time
January 1, 1981Release Date
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Plot.
Set in an unspecified Third World country, this animated film, based on a short story by Enver Carim, suggests that "top priority" means different things to governments and to the governed. A drought-stricken family maintains a long and desperate vigil for a cloud of dust on the horizon signalling the arrival of irrigation pipes and pump. They are rewarded with a military convoy instead. Its top priority is a border war with a neighboring state, not pipes for the life-saving water the family must have.
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Wiki.
Top Priority is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Ishu Patel and released in 1981. Adapted from a short story by South African writer Enver Carim, the film centres on a family in an impoverished country who are in desperate need of water to irrigate their farmland, only to discover that the government prioritizes war with a neighbouring country over the welfare of its own citizens.
The film's voice cast includes Walter Massey, Vlasta Vrana, Maureen Hill and Paula Mazzone.
The film was a Genie Award nominee for Best Theatrical Short Film at the 3rd Genie Awards in 1982.