An inventive new animated drama is within the works at French studio Miyu Productions in Ogresse, described as a “wry and irreverent fairytale” in addition to a “homicide ballad set to a jazz tempo,” impressed by a story piece carried out by three-time Grammy winner Cécile McLorin Salvant.
The movie’s story follows an outcast ogress who’s shunned for her bodily distinction, pursued via the forest by a younger hunter decided to say her coronary heart in love — or fight.
Acclaimed American jazz singer McLorin Salvant, who was awarded a Macarthur Genius Grant in 2020, will co-direct the characteristic mission with Belgian animator Lia Bertels (Tiny Large, Nuit Chérie, And But We’re Not Superheroes).
“Ogresse is a love story impressed by my very own experiences. It explores self-love and wonder beliefs with a courageous, advanced, generally merciless and all the time endearing heroine. It will likely be an eclectic, dense, wealthy and genderless movie that can poke enjoyable at racist traditions in animation,” McLorin Salvant informed Selection.
Bertels added, “As quickly as I heard the dwell recording, I knew we needed to convey the Ogress to life. I’m excited to make my characteristic debut with a mission that explores themes of ecology, prejudice, gender and love from a contemporary perspective whereas attempting to interrupt the conventions of the movies that formed us.”
A “sketch” preview of the mission set to excerpts from a dwell recording of McLorin Salvant’s piece was shared in 2020.
[Sources: Variety, SFJAZZ]
