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.
Posted: Jan 13, 2021 7:43 PM AT | Last Updated: January 14
Carol Anne and Tom Johnson in Eskasoni, N.S., still get requests from people who want a copy of their overdubbed version of Chicken Run.(Holly Conners/CBC)
A British animated film about a hen and rooster s daring escape from a chicken farm has become an unlikely tool for promoting the Mi kmaw language in Nova Scotia and beyond.
Tom and Carol Anne Johnson from Eskasoni, N.S., along with some of their relatives, overdubbed the 2000 movie
Chicken Run in Mi kmaw about a decade ago. Since then, it s become a cult classic, and they still get requests from people who want to watch it.