Modern Family Productions presents the award-winning short film Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner. The “gloriously surreal” story of three seven year-olds forced to endure their mother’s culinary abuses, Anderson Children premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to play at over forty festivals worldwide, including Leeds International, South by Southwest and Slamdance. In 2004, the film found its way on to television screens — in Canada, on the latenight CBC series ZeD; and in the US, on the PBS series Independent Lens, hosted by Susan Sarandon. “Sumptuously visualized” and “darkly hilarious,” Anderson Children has drawn comparisons to the works of Wes Anderson, David Lynch and Peter Greenaway. The critics of Film Threat voted Anderson Children the No. 2 short film of 2004 in their annual Top Ten list. Read on to find out more about this “exquisitely detailed, mannered modern fairy tale.”