Josh Raskin is the director of “I Met the Walrus” , an animated short that brings to life the audio interview with John Lennon that took place in 1969. The Interviewer was 14 year old canadian Jerry Levitan, who skipped school to seek out the Beatle in a downtown Toronto hotel. The National Post to day interviewed Raskin about his film and the fasinating story of how

Levitan captured his 40-minute interview with Lennon on tape, and has held on to it, waiting for an appropriate way to make it known to the world. Enter Raskin.The Ryerson University grad, who studied new media, had made a film for the National Film Board, “a 1940s propaganda film remix project,” as Raskin describes it, that involved keeping the movie’s original audio while creating new visuals. Levitan saw the film and tracked Raskin down. “He told me his story and I was immediately sold,” the director explains. “I think The Beatles are the best band ever. My parents are big fans, so I must have inherited it through breast milk or something.”  

 Raskin is up against 4 other films this year Madame Tutli-Putli, Même les Pigeons vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go To Heaven),My Love (Moya Lyubov), and Peter & the Wolf.