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Animation · 2024

NRG Efficiency

A short animated film about two duelists, an isolated training club, and the energy that makes the everyday possible.

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Two aspiring duelists, Physis and Limpid, train at an isolated club abroad. Physis tells Limpid about her childhood in Canada, learning about the energy sector from parents who worked inside it. Limpid had never thought about where energy comes from. By the end of the film he is closing taps and switching off lights, feeling a gratitude he had never felt before. The Canadian energy sector is taken for granted by many of us, and seeing it through two characters helps surface why it matters at home and in the 130+ countries that import energy from Canada.

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