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The Dead Tree
199910 min 59 secFilm: Animation
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