Title: Spine (1986 film)
Content:  Spine is a 1986 American horror film written and directed by John Howard and Justin Simmonds and starring Janus Blythe.
Title: The Spine (film)
Content:  The Spine is a 2009 animated short film by Chris Landreth about a married dysfunctional couple, created in Landreth's "psycho realist" style, in which characters' mental states are reflected in their physical appearance. Voices for the couple were supplied by Gordon Pinsent and Alberta Watson. Landreth has explained his animation style as "a kind of surrealistic portrayal of real people and what I do with the surrealistic part is to make people's emotional, psychological and spiritual state kind of very evident on their faces and in their body so that they look …scarred in a way that reflects their history." The Spine was produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Copperheart Animation and C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, with the creative participation of Autodesk Canada and Seneca College's School of Communication Arts. It is Landreth's second film with Copper Heart and the NFB, having won the 2004 Academy Award for Animated Short Film and the 25th Genie Award for Best Animated Short for his previous work, ''Ryan.
Title: The Spine (film)
Content:  The Spine had its world premiere at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, followed by a North American premiere at the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto. In August 2009, Landreth presented the film at SIGGRAPH in New Orleans.
Title: The Spine (film)
Content:  screenplay for The Spine was written by Landreth while enrolled in a professional screenwriting workshop at Ryerson Polytechnic University. Some of the story was based on what he'd seen, 20 years earlier, at a group therapy session for couples, where it seemed to Landreth that portraying a dysfunctional relationship would make for an interesting story. It took Landreth just two hours to put the outline together, but completing the story took a year. The Ryerson workshop helped Landreth to flesh out his story and as of 2009, he continues to meet with his writing group once a month. Landreth also credits the production teams from the National Film Board and Copperheart for their creative input.
Title: The Spine (film)
Content:  Producing The Spine took two years, with the first year devoted mainly to development. The film was a more ambitious project technically than Ryan, and so required a much larger production team. Animators from Seneca College, which had been involved in Ryan, played a much larger role in the making of The Spine, with Seneca College people doing "about 95% of the animation," according to Landreth. Seneca professor Sean Craig, who had worked on Ryan as a student, was an animation director on The Spine. The film also utilized the input of C.O.R.E., including a team that did most of the computer rendering. The film was principally created using Autodesk Maya and Houdini 3D software. 
Title: Spine (1986 film)
Content: Kathy Rose as First Victim ; R. Eric Huxley as Lawrence Ashton ; John Howard as Leo Meadows (as Antoine Herzog) ; Bill Eberwein	as Chuck Roast ; Marie Dowling	as Lori Anderson ; Dan Watson as Man in Office ; Abby Sved as Louise Morton ; James Simonds	as Police Captain ; Donna Sayles	as Bobbie Jones ; Carl Elliot as Sam Joffrey ; Larry Nielson	as Charlie Saunders ; Lise Romanoff	as Leah Petralla ; Janus Blythe as Carrie Lonegan ; Brenda Brandon as Computer Technician ; Terry Simonds as At Police Headquarters ; Jason Eberweinas At Police Headquarters ; Roger Watkins as At Police Headquarters (as Ray Hicks) 
Title: The Spine (album)
Content:  Two music videos were produced for The Spine. The first, a Flash-animated video for "Experimental Film", was created in conjunction with the creators of Homestar Runner, and features Homestar Runner characters. An animated music video for "Bastard Wants to Hit Me" appears on the DVD for Venue Songs. The video was directed by Aaron Sorenson and Courtney Booker of Laika. The video was nominated for the Annie Award for "Best Animated Television Commercial" in 2005.
Title: The Spine (film)
Content:  Scott Hill of Wired.com called it "a freakish array of human drama" that will "blow minds". The Spine received the award for the best film at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, and was named best animated short at the Nashville Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Genie Award for Best Animated Short at the 30th Genie Awards.
Title: Spine (1986 film)
Content:  It was released directly to video somewhere in 1986.
Title: Chris Landreth
Content:  nominated in 1996 for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Afterward, he met Ryan Larkin, a renowned animator in the 1960s and 1970s, who had recently fallen in a spiral of excessive drinking, cocaine abuse, and homelessness. This resulted in the 2004 production of Ryan, which won an Oscar in 2005. Landreth's 2009 film The Spine won the Best of the Festival award at the Melbourne International Animation Festival. Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with Copperheart Entertainment, C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures and Seneca College, The Spine depicts a man who's physically and figuratively spineless and the breakdown of his marriage. Subconscious Password was his third with 

Question: Who was the director of The Spine?
Answer: Chris Landreth.
Christopher Landreth.