The Girl Who Cried Pearls
TITLE
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
DIRECTOR
Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
COUNTRY
Canada
YEAR
2025
DURATION
18′
GENRE
Animation
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
A haunting fable about a girl overwhelmed by sorrow, the boy who loves her, and how greed leads good hearts to wicked deeds.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
Their debut film, Madame Tutli-Putli, earned an Oscar® nomination for Best Animated Short. They later adapted Maurice Sendak’s Higglety Pigglety Pop!, featuring Meryl Streep. They served as art directors for Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room (2016) and were honoured with retrospectives at Annecy and the Cinémathèque Québécoise (2017). Their 2019 VR stop-motion film Gymnasia, co-produced by Felix & Paul Studios and the NFB, won multiple awards.
- DirectorChris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
- Screenplay Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski, Isabelle Mandalian
- Cinematography
- Cast
- Editing
- Producer/s Julie Roy, Marc Bertrand, Christine Noël
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleThe Girl Who Cried Pearls
- Project TypeAnimation
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originCanada
- Country of filmingCanada
- Language English, French
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
Their debut film, Madame Tutli-Putli, earned an Oscar® nomination for Best Animated Short. They later adapted Maurice Sendak’s Higglety Pigglety Pop!, featuring Meryl Streep. They served as art directors for Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room (2016) and were honoured with retrospectives at Annecy and the Cinémathèque Québécoise (2017). Their 2019 VR stop-motion film Gymnasia, co-produced by Felix & Paul Studios and the NFB, won multiple awards.
