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‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ Directors Discuss Crafting a Modern Fable in Miniature | Animation Magazine

  • By Jennifer Wolfe
  • June 9th, 2025

Animation Magazine — June 9, 2025
‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’ Directors Discuss Crafting a Modern Fable in Miniature

***This article was written for the May-June 2025 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 350)***

Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski return to Annecy this month with a luminous stop-motion tale years in the making. The Girl Who Cried Pearls, produced by Julie Roy, Marc Bertrand and Christine Noël at the National Film Board of Canada, will make its world premiere at the festival as part of the official shorts competition. Set in Montreal at the turn of the 20th century, the 17.5-minute short is a handcrafted modern fable about a boy and a girl brought together by sorrow — and the temptations of greed.

The Girl Who Cried Pearls marks a deliberate departure from the surreal, dreamlike space that defined Lavis and Szczerbowski’s 2008 Oscar-nominated short, Madame Tutli-Putli. Working under their Clyde Henry Productions banner, the longtime creative partners embraced the challenges of linear storytelling while continuing their commitment to collaboration, creative risk and deliberate resistance to ego. (Read full story…)

Jennifer Wolfe

A Los Angeles-based content producer and strategist with 15+ years of experience in Media & Entertainment, I bring a broad-scope knowledge of M&E business and technologies spanning visual storytelling, creative post production, and digital content creation and delivery. Fluent across digital publishing platforms, including development and back-end management, I am highly skilled at translating technical workflows into narratives that showcase product features and capabilities.