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Bone Mother

A vain and arrogant youth dares to enter Baba Yaga’s living house of bones. What emerges will forever fill our nights with terror.
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Who dares to disturb the devil’s grandmother and enter her slumbering house of bones? Who is foolish enough to betray this immortal nature-spirit? Baba Yaga holds the answers you need, but are they the answers you seek? Tread carefully, for your ambitious schemes could come back to haunt you…

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  • director
    Dale Hayward
    Sylvie Trouvé
  • animation
    Dale Hayward
    Sylvie Trouvé
  • script
    Sylvie Trouvé
    Dale Hayward
    Lanan Adcock
  • cast
    Renée-Madeleine Le Guerrier
    Rafael Petardi
  • character design
    Dale Hayward
  • art design
    Dale Hayward
  • modeling
    André Michaud
    Noncedo Khumalo
  • facial rigging
    Dana Darie
  • 3D printing script
    Chris Lesage
  • 3D printing
    André Michaud
  • 3D-printed face painting
    Eve Lamoureux-Cyr
    Claire Brognez
  • puppet & costume fabrication
    Sylvie Trouvé
    Dale Hayward
  • armatures
    André Michaud
  • additional puppet fabrication
    Carl Michaloski
  • puppet repair
    Erik Goulet
  • set fabrication
    Sylvie Trouvé
    Corinne Merrell
  • storyboard
    Dale Hayward
  • animatic
    Dale Hayward
  • cinematography
    Sylvie Trouvé
  • editing
    Sylvie Trouvé
    Dale Hayward
  • online editing
    Serge Verreault
  • technical director
    Éloi Champagne
  • technical coordination
    Randall Finnerty
    Luc Binette
  • compositing
    Dale Hayward
    Nick Fairhead
    Simon Cottee
    Noncedo Khumalo
  • sound design
    Sacha Ratcliffe
  • music
    Rebecca Foon
  • musician
    Rebecca Foon
    Jamie Thompson
    Colin Stetson
  • music recording
    David Smith
    George Mitchell
  • dialogue recording
    George Mitchell
  • music recording - assistance
    Bernard Belley
  • dialogue recording - assistance
    Bernard Belley
  • foley recording
    Luc Léger
  • sound mix
    Jean Paul Vialard
  • foley
    Karla Baumgardner
  • foley assistant
    Rod Thibeault
  • credits
    Mélanie Bouchard
  • administration
    Victoire-Émilie Bessette
    Rosalina Di Sario
    Dominique Forget
    Stéphanie Lalonde
  • marketing
    Karine Sévigny
  • marketing assistant
    Jolène Lessard
  • audiovisual & digital
    Angel Trasgallo Carpio
  • producer
    Jelena Popovic
  • executive producer
    Michael Fukushima
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