Solid Ground

20222 min 45 secFilm: Animation

Direction: Beatriz Carvalho

Production: Anne-Marie Bousquet (National Film Board of Canada)Christine Noël (National Film Board of Canada)

Script: Beatriz Carvalho

A production of the National Film Board of Canada.

Solid Ground is a poetic and sound-rich travelogue—a personal journal that reveals the thoughts of an expatriate returning to her native land. Employing the rarely used monotype animation technique, Solid Ground reflects the personal experience of discovering different lands and feeling as though one were simultaneously at home and elsewhere.

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


  • Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Caribbean, Central and South American OriginsImmigration Experience and Social Adjustment
  • Psychology and Psychiatry > Emotional Life

Credits


direction
Beatriz Carvalho
script
Beatriz Carvalho
producer
Anne-Marie Bousquet
animation
Beatriz Carvalho
editing
Mélanie O'Bomsawin
sound design
Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala
musical composition
Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala
consultant
Claude Cloutier
voice
Camila Novais
Dave Campbell
voice director
Katherine Lauzon
translation
Helge Dascher
foley
Sam Mongeau
sound recording
Geoffrey Mitchell
musician
Claude Hurtubise
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