A Pig's Tail

A Pig's Tail
Directed bySarah Cox[1]
Written byMatthew Walker[2]
Produced byJason Bartholemew[3]
Gutleben Christine[2]
Heather Wright
StarringHeidi Lynch
Kaia Rose
Sophie Angelson
Catherine Taber
James Arnold Taylor
CinematographyNathan Sale Sr.[2]
Edited byVictoria Stevens[2]
Jonny Crew
Music bySteven Delopoulos[4]
Production
company
Release date
  • 24 October 2012 (2012-10-24) (United States)
Running time
5 minutes[2]
CountriesUnited Kingdom
United States
LanguageEnglish

A Pig's Tail is a 2012 British-American 5-minute stop motion animated short film directed by Sarah Cox, written by Matthew Walker, produced by Jason Bartholemew, Gutleben Christine and Heather Wright and created by Aardman Animations for The Humane Society of the United States.[4]

Plot

Ginger imagines a future for her family that is much nicer than the dark and smelly intensive pig farm where they all live.[5]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Wells, Paul; Moore, Samantha (9 February 2017). The Fundamentals of Animation. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-4742-4178-6.
  2. ^ a b c d e Wickliffe, Andrew (4 December 2012). "A Pig's Tail (2012, Sarah Cox)". The Stop Button. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  3. ^ a b Richards, Jennie (23 April 2016). "A Pig's Tail – An Animated Short About Industrial Pig Farming - Humane Decisions". humanedecisions.com. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  4. ^ a b c Gutleben, Christine (5 October 2012). "Celebrating the Spirit of Food Day with "A Pig's Tail"". Food Day. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
  5. ^ a b Zahed, Ramin (25 October 2012). "Aardman's 'Pig's Tail' Exposes Inhumane Factory Farming". Animation Magazine. Retrieved 19 December 2025.