The National Film Board of Canada

Parliament Hill Reception for Oscar Nominee
Film Animator Torill Kove
February 2007

©Photos by Lois Siegel

©AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian

Canadian Torill Kove won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film
for "The Danish Poet" at the 79th Academy Awards February 25, 2007 in Los Angeles.

Torill Kove, Film Animator
Stephen Harper, Prime Minister
Tor Berntin Naess, Norwegian Ambassador

Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House of Commons
Torill Kove
David Wilkins, US Ambassador to Canada

Stephen Harper Holds Torill's Genie Award
Best Animated Short
"The Danish Poet"

Peter Milliken
Jim Abbott, M. P. and Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage
Torill Kove
Leo Doyle, National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Senior Corporate Affairs Officer
David Wilkins

Monte Solberg, Minister of Human Resources and Social Development
Torill Kove
Tor Berntin Naess

Torill Kove
Jim Abbott

Bev Oda, Heritage Minister
Torill Kove
Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry

Torill Kove
Tor Berntin Naess

Chris Warkentin, Conservative MP for Peace River, Alberta
and Member of the Heritage Committee
Torill Kove

Wenche Linneboe, Information Officer Norwegian Embassy
Ernest Labrèque, Head of Film and Television International Cultural Relations Division
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Valerie Nabb, Deputy Director of Cultural Industries International Cultural Relations Division
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada