The Girl Who Cried Pearls / La jeune fille qui pleurait des perles / Dekle, ki je jokalo bisere

Maciek Szczerbowski, Chris Lavis (NFB National Film Board of Canada)
2025, Canada, 17'28''

A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.

Pretresljiva pripovedka o dekletu, preplavljenem z žalostjo, o fantu, ki jo ljubi, in o tem, kako pohlep dobra srca napelje k zlim dejanjem.

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Language: English
Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes
Technique: Puppet animation

Team

A film by Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski (Clyde Henry Productions)

Written by Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski, Isabelle Mandalian
With the voice of Colm Feore
Original Music: Patrick Watson
Producers: Julie Roy, Marc Bertrand, Christine Noël
Sound Designer: Olivier Calvert
Artistic Director: Brigitte Henry
Animators: Laura Stewart, Laura Venditti, Peggy Arel
Voice of Grandfather: Colm Feore
Voice of Granddaughter: Gabrielle Dallaire
Additional Voice: Charlotte Loseth
Costume Designer: Yso
Additional Puppet Painting: Jean Labourdette
Casting and Mould-Making: Erik H. Goulet
Executive Producer: Christine Noël
Development Producer: Julie Roy
Line Producers: Mélanie Boudreau Blanchard, Anne-Marie Bousquet
Administrators: Karine Desmeules, Diane Régimbald
Production Coordinators: Josiane Bernardin, Camila Blos, Michèle Labelle
Reference Performance Actors: Nathalie Claude, Stéphane Demers, Andréa Lecavalier, Jacob Lemieux, Jeanne Madore, Michel Perron
Technical Director: Eric Pouliot
Technical Animation Specialist: Yannick Grandmont
Visual Effects and Compositing Artists: Melrouss, Jean-François Lévesque, Alexandre Roy, Kamil Chajder
Additional Compositors: Mélanie Bouchard, Alain Ostiguy, Cynthia Ouellet, Serge Verreault
3D Artist Generalist: Alexandre Morin, ZABELLE Inc.
3D Modelling and Texturing: Daniel Gies, E.D. Films
Studio Coordinators: Rose Mercier-Marcotte, Laetitia Seguin
Foley: Lise Wedlock
Sound Recordists: Luc Léger, Geoffrey Mitchell
Re-Recording Mixer: Isabelle Lussier 
Colourist & Online Editor: Yannick Carrier
Credits: Cynthia Ouellet
Technical Coordinators: Lyne Lapointe, Mira Mailhot
Consultants: Artifex Animation Studios Inc., Stéphane Lafleur, Jacques Lévesque
“Jeune fille qui pleurait des perles”: Composed by Patrick Watson, Arranged by Patrick Watson, Benoît Groulx, Engineering Assistance by Montana Martin Iles, Performed by: Richard Reed Parry, and Yannick Chênevert – Contrabass, Sophie Trudeau, Robert Margayan, Mélanie Bélair – Violin, Madeleine Messier, Ligia Paquin – Viola, Rebecca Foon, Annie Gadbois – Cello, Victor Alibert – Clarinet, Laurence Neill-Poirier – Contrabass Clarinette, Martin Carpentier – Clarinet in B-Flat, Jocelyne Roy – Alto Flute, Brad Barr – Guitar, Charlotte Loseth – Voice
Senior Marketing Advisor: Judith Lessard-Bérubé
Marketing Project Manager: Marion Duhaime-Morissette
Marketing Coordinator: Emilie Ryan
Publicist: Nadine Viau
Legal Advisor: Christian Pitchen

Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski

(Clyde Henry Productions) are award-winning writers, directors and animators. Their first film, Madame Tutli-Putli (NFB), was recognized with an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short (2007). Lavis and Szczerbowski went on to adapt Maurice Sendak’s Higglety Pigglety Pop! (NFB, Warner Brothers) and direct Meryl Streep in the film. In 2016, the duo were recognized with a nomination for Best Art Direction at the Canadian Screen Awards for their work on Guy Maddin’s feature The Forbidden Room. In 2017, 20 years of artistic creation was celebrated with retrospectives at the Cinémathèque Québécoise (Montreal) and the Annecy International Animation Festival in France. Then, in 2019, they created the VR film Gymnasia (Felix & Paul, NFB), a unique blend of virtual reality and stop-motion animation, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win numerous awards, including a Canadian Screen Award for Best Immersive Experience. Most recently, they collaborated with Montreal’s Compulsion Games and X-Box to direct a short stop-motion introduction to the game South of Midnight.

Find more: www.clydehenry.myportfolio.com