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Modern Alchemy
20222 min 40 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Bren López Zepeda
Production: Anne-Marie Bousquet (National Film Board of Canada)Christine Noël (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Bren López Zepeda
A production of the National Film Board of Canada.
Strength. Challenges. Courage. Modern Alchemy depicts a quest for self-knowledge that revolves around resilience, reconstruction and rebirth. A succession of colours, each more vibrant than the last, in which one stops breathing for a moment to find a path toward inner peace.
A film from the Alambic collection, a creative lab by the NFB’s French Program Animation Studio that’s designed for emerging filmmakers.
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Subject categories
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Coping with Adversity
- Psychology and Psychiatry > Psychological Processes
Credits
- direction
- Bren López Zepeda
- script
- Bren López Zepeda
- producer
- Anne-Marie Bousquet
- animation
- Bren López Zepeda
- infographics
- Mélissa Rousseau
- editing
- Mélanie O'Bomsawin
- sound design
- Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala
- musical composition
- Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala
- consultant
- Claude Cloutier
- voice
- Bren López Zepeda
- voice director
- Katherine Lauzon
- foley
- Sam Mongeau
- sound recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- musician
- Martin Plante
- Jimmy Lahaie
- re-recording
- Jean Paul Vialard
- concept - opening sequence
- Meky Ottawa
- illustration - opening sequence
- Janice Nadeau
- music - opening sequence
- Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala
- technical director
- Éric Pouliot
- technical specialist - animation
- Yannick Grandmont
- technical coordinator
- Mira Mailhot
- Esther Viragh
- online editor
- Denis Pilon
- graphic design
- Cynthia Ouellet
- studio coordinator
- Laetitia Seguin
- Rose Mercier-Marcotte
- administrator
- Karine Desmeules
- senior production coordinator
- Josiane Bernardin
- executive producer
- Christine Noël
- marketing
- Nathalie Guérard