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Reviving The Roost

Vivek Shraya

2019 6 min

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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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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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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
  

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