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Tales from the Crib: "Over the Hump"
20041 min 20 secFilm: Animation
Direction: Caroline R. Maria
Production: Marcy PageRia Samsonenko (Cinemaria)Caroline R. MariaDavid Verrall (National Film Board of Canada)
Script: Caroline R. MariaJoan Scott
Co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Cinemaria in association with The Comedy Network.
Adults on the verge of procreating... She's not sure why, but she feels a powerful gene current rushing her toward an uncertain destiny... Around him, the air is thick with baby propaganda... Through the rosy haze they wonder... Are kids really just adorable affection factories? Or is there an untold sinister side to child rearing, a dark hell-bound side street, a one-way alley that no one dared reveal when you started careening down that hormone-splattered highway toward the frontiers of exhaustion? Tales from the Crib, based on the book by Henrik Drescher, is a series of provocative short segments (vignettes) in stop motion and CGI, exploring the curious and timeless rites of parenthood.
A little romance can help mom and dad get over "the hump".
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Adaptations of Literary WorksAnimation based on LiteratureChildren's LiteratureWorld Literature
- Families > Animation on the FamilyChild Rearing and DevelopmentParent-Child Relationships
Credits
- writer
- Caroline R. Maria
- Joan Scott
- design
- Valentin
- stop motion animation
- Valentin
- development
- Caroline R. Maria
- director
- Caroline R. Maria
- narrator
- Jamie Watson
- animation
- Christopher Goodkey
- Franck Maillet
- Malcolm Sutherland
- compositing
- Martin Ciastko
- stop motion animation assistant
- Jean-Martin Casseus
- editing
- Martin Ciastko
- Denis Pilon
- production assistant
- Nick Fox-Gieg
- Jean-Sébastien Jasenovic
- Ron Kriz
- technical supervision
- Susan Gourley
- Pierre Plouffe
- production coordinator
- Benoit Delpech
- Richard Lesage
- original music score
- Shayne Gryn
- opening theme
- Shayne Gryn
- audio recording
- Sylvain Jacob
- Marc-André Nadeau
- sound design
- Sylvain Jacob
- Marc-André Nadeau
- administration
- Richard C. Fortin
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Elaine Largie
- accounting
- Richard C. Fortin
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Elaine Largie
- creative consultant
- Henrik Drescher
- producer
- Marcy Page
- Ria Samsonenko
- executive producer
- Caroline R. Maria
- David Verrall