The Dead Tree

199910 min 59 secFilm: Animation

G

Direction: Vincent Gauthier

Production: Pierre HébertYves Leduc

Script: Pierre-Michel Tremblay

Every night, when the vampire bats fly off in search of nourishment, they avoid the dead tree where victims of the Great Sickness are left to die. Since the advent of this life-threatening disease, the bats pay strict attention to a new law: their nightly harvest of blood must be purified by fire. Beware those who break this law, like Desmine and Modus, careless... This animated film evokes the AIDS crisis. It pleads for tolerance, calls for prevention, and denounces the stigma attached to victims of this end-of-millenium scourge.

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Subject categories


  • Health and Medicine > AIDS
  • Social Issues > Animation and Allegory on Social IssuesDiscrimination and Stereotyping
  • Animals > Stories

Credits


director
Vincent Gauthier
producer
Pierre Hébert
Yves Leduc
script
Pierre-Michel Tremblay
sound recording
Geoffrey Mitchell
editing
Suzanne Allard
re-recording
Jean Paul Vialard
narrator
Julie Burroughs
voice
France Parent
Guy Jodoin
music
Eric Longsworth