LETTER TO A PIG
A traumatic memory of a Holocaust survivor sends a young schoolgirl on an inner journey, searching for her own path as the boundary between animal and human nature blurs.
Directed by: Tal Kantor
Animation: Meton Joffily, Anne Kraehn, Tal Kantor
Animation Intern & paint animation: Teresa Baroet
Script: Tal Kantor
Backgrounds: Dafi Ben-Ami, Tal Kantor
Actors: Moriyah Meerson, Alex Peleg, Ayelet Margalit, Indra Maharik
Voice: Alex Peleg
Special effects: Shachaer Kantor, Shahar Davis
Film editor: Efrat Berger
D.O.P – Arbel Rom
Compositing: Shahar Davis
Sound engineer: Erez Eyeni-Shavit
Sound editor: Erez Eyeni-Shavit
Mix: Erez Eyeni-Shavit
Soundtrack: Pierre Oberkampf
Runtime: 16 minutes 40 seconds
Country of Origin: France
Aspect Ratio: 16/9
Process: Color
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Tal Kantor is an award-winning animation filmmaker & visual artist.
Graduated with honors from the “Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design”, Jerusalem.
Her short animated film In Other Words won 17 awards and officially selected in more than 100 festivals worldwide.
She worked as the Animation-Director for the documentary feature film ADVOCATE (Sundance 2019, Oscar shortlist 2020) and currently lectures at “Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design” Screen-Based Arts Department.
Letter to a Pig, which won the Ciclic-Animation production grant at Annecy Animation Festival (2017), is her debut film.
Filmographie / Filmography:
Letter to a Pig| 2021
Advocate | 2019 [Art Director]
In Other Words | 2016
Under The Small Sun | 2015 [co-directed with Shahar Davis]
