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Reviving The Roost

Name: Reviving The Roost
Released: Nov. 6, 2019, 2:10 p.m.
Duration: 6 min

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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Credits

writing

Vivek Shraya
writer

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
sound editor

Elma Bello
re-recording mixer

Martin Lee

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