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Reviving The Roost
20196 min 15 secFilm: Documentary, Animation
Direction: Vivek Shraya
Production: Justine PimlottAnita Lee
Script: Vivek Shraya
Filmmaker and bestselling author Vivek Shraya’s ode to a popular Edmonton gay bar that closed in 2007. With pulsating neon-light animation, Reviving the Roost is a story about community complexity and longing, and an elegy to a lost space.
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Subject categories
- Industry and Commerce > Business
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Cultural Diversity
- Social Issues > Individual in Society
- Sexuality and Reproduction > Sexual minorities (2SLGBTQ+ people)
Credits
- writing
- Vivek Shraya
- director
- Vivek Shraya
- producer
- Justine Pimlott
- executive producer
- Anita Lee
- animator
- Tim Singleton
- illustrator
- Tim Singleton
- music
- Johnny Spence
- sound design
- Johnny Spence
- additional cinematography
- Zachary Ayotte
- production supervisor
- Marcus Matyas
- production coordinator
- Andrew Martin-Smith
- studio operations manager
- Mark Wilson
- studio administrator
- Patricia Bourgeois
- technical coordinator
- Kevin Riley
- studio coordinator
- Carly Kastner
- technical assistant
- Q'Mal Labad-Workman
- marketing manager
- Melissa Wheeler
- publicist
- Jennifer Mair
- legal counsel
- Christian Pitchen
- post production services
- SIM Post Toronto
- colourist
- Andrew Ross
- online editor
- Ty Delgaty
- assistant on-line editor
- Steve Thorpe
- sound editor
- Elma Bello
- assistant re-recording mixer
- Jesse Fellows
- re-recording mixer
- Martin Lee
Awards
- Jury Award for Best AnimationTampa Bay Int'l Gay & Lesbian Film Festival