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TORONTO Nearly a decade after an Eskasoni, N.S. family redubbed British animated film Chicken Run in the Mi kmaw language, some of the film’s directors are commending the couple for working to keep their language alive. The co-director and writer of the film Peter Lord took to Twitter last week to say he just heard about Tom and Carol Anne Johnson’s version of Chicken Run. As co-director of the original film may I say: Congratulations! What a great project and carry on the great work, Lord wrote in the tweet. Carol Anne Johnson told CTV s Your Morning on Thursday they had emailed the distributor of the film, DreamWorks, nearly nine years ago about the project, but never heard back. ....
Mainstreet this week. The one thing we never thought about at any stage while we were making that film was . to give encouragement to the preservation of an endangered language. We were not thinking about that and so to hear that was just thrilling. LISTEN | Carol Anne and Tom Johnson meet co-director Peter Lord: Mainstreet NS12:59Couple who overdubbed Chicken Run in Mi kmaw meets one of the film s creatorsPeter Lord wrote and co-directed the 2000 British film and recently reached out to Tom and Carol Anne Johnson in Eskasoni, N.S., to thank them for their version overdubbed in Mi kmaw.12:59 The Johnsons spent many long hours working to translate the film in their garage turned recording studio. A decade later, the overdubbed film has travelled around the Maritimes and they still get requests from people who want to watch it. ....