
Blossom
Foreign title: Épanouissement (French)
- Studio
- National Film Board of Canada
- Distributor
- National Film Board of Canada
Synopsis
As a young woman journeys to a new country, the promise and possibility of her life spills out like the petals of a flower, unfurling into full and glorious bloom. Julia Kwan's film Blossom captures a woman's experience, mirrored and reflected in the natural world. As summer opens into spring, mother and daughter build a life together. The taste and texture of each season, whether the ice-cream smell of summer, the crisp birch air of autumn, or the warmth of winter dumplings - are lovingly rendered in animation, sound and image. Throughout the passage of time, the persistence of love endures, as resolute and unchanging as the cycle of the season.
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Julia Kwan
Producing
- Producer
- Teri Snelgrove (Associate Producer)
- Executive Producer
- Tracey Friesen
Writing
- Writer
- Julia Kwan
Animation
- Animator
- Elisa Chee, Aparna Kapur
Editing
- Editor
- Michael Brockington (Consulting Editor)
- On-Line Editor
- Eliot Piltz
Crew
- Director of Photography
- C. Kim Miles
- Photographer
- Tallulah
- Design
- Elisa Chee, Aparna Kapur
- Production Designer
- Mary Ann Liu
- Sound Design
- Jamie Mahaffey
- Gaffer
- Tony Durke
- Makeup
- Pakou Her
- Production Assistants
- Damian Kuehn, Ashley CrowChief
- Clearances
- Found Images Research
- Re-Recording Engineer
- Jamie Mahaffey
- Mix Facility
- The Mix Room
- Post-Production Services
- Finale Editworks
- Technical Coordinator
- Wes Machnikowski
- Production Supervisor
- Kathryn Lynch
- Marketing Manager
- Kay Leung
- Program Administrator
- Bruce Hagerman
