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The Dead Tree

1999 (estimated) Theatrical National Film Board of Canada

Foreign title: l'Arbre Mort (French)

Studio
National Film Board of Canada
Distributor
National Film Board of Canada

Synopsis

Every night, when the vampire bats fly off in search of nourishment, they avoid the dead tree where victims of the Great Sickness are left to die. Since the advent of this life-threatening disease, the bats pay strict attention to a new law: their nightly harvest of blood must be purified by fire. Beware those who break this law, like Desmine and Modus, careless... This film evokes the AIDS crisis. It pleads for tolerance, calls for prevention, and denounces the stigma attached to victims of this end-of-millenium scourge.

Characters

Desmine, Modus

Credits

Directing

Director
Vincent Gauthier

Producing

Producer
Pierre Hébert, Yves Leduc

Writing

Writer
Pierre-Michel Tremblay

Voices

Voice
Julie Burroughs (Narrator), France Parent, Guy Jodoin

Music

Music
Eric Longsworth

Editing

Editor
Suzanne Allard

Crew

Sound Recording
Geoffrey Mitchell
Re-Recording
Jean Paul Vialard