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Modern Alchemy

Alchimie moderne
Bren López Zepeda
2022 | 2 min 40 s
2D Digital Animation
French Version

Awards and Festivals

  • Official SelectionRendez-vous du cinéma québécois (RVCQ), Canada (2023)

A National Film Board of Canada production

Strength. Challenges. Courage.   Modern Alchemy depicts a quest for self-knowledge that revolves around resilience, reconstruction and rebirth. A succession of colours, each more vibrant than the last, in which one stops breathing for a moment to find a path toward inner peace. 

A film from the Alambic collection, a creative lab by the NFB’s French Program Animation Studio that’s designed for emerging filmmakers. 

 

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Team


Bren López Zepeda
Director

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Anne-Marie Bousquet
Producer (NFB)

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Christine Noël
Executive Producer (NFB)

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Credits

A film by
Bren López Zepeda

Producer
Anne-Marie Bousquet

Animation
Bren López Zepeda

Infographics
Mélissa Rousseau

Editing
Mélanie O’Bomsawin

Sound Design and Musical Composition
Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala

Consultant
Claude Cloutier

Voice
Bren López Zepeda

Voice Director
Katherine Lauzon

Foley
Sam Mongeau

Sound Recording
Geoffrey Mitchell

Musicians
Martin Plante
Jimmy Lahaie

Re-recording
Jean Paul Vialard

Opening Sequence

Concept
Meky Ottawa

Illustration
Janice Nadeau

Music
Stéphanie Hamelin Tomala

Technical Director
Eric Pouliot

Technical Specialist, Animation
Yannick Grandmont

Technical Coordinators
Mira Mailhot
Esther Viragh

Online Editor
Denis Pilon

Graphic Design
Cynthia Ouellet

Studio Coordinators
Laetitia Seguin
Rose Mercier-Marcotte

Administrator
Karine Desmeules

Senior Production Coordinator
Josiane Bernardin

Executive Producer
Christine Noël

Marketing
Nathalie Guérard

Thanks to
La Madresota
Bogdan Anifrani-Fedach
Beatriz Carvalho
Lori Malépart-Traversy
Nancy Choquette

Alambic 1 – Modern Alchemy

Animation Studio
Programming and Production, French Program
Creation and Innovation
www.nfb.ca

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