Based mostly on her personal expertise as a sufferer of childhood bullying, director Sarah Beth Morgan leads a manufacturing workforce of 30+ ladies in spreading consciousness of the trauma concerned and letting different victims know they don’t seem to be alone.
Sarah Beth Morgan: “In 2005, I used to be a sufferer of schoolgirl bullying. After I began seventh grade, my finest mates started
excluding me, calling me names, and terrorizing me over the web and in individual. However then, in eighth grade, these similar classmates rotated and determined to be my mates once more, with no point out of the previous yr.
“I used to be too scared to say something however so comfortable to have my mates again that I didn’t name them out or defend myself. This expertise has plagued me with belief points and has exaggerated my perfectionism and people-pleasing qualities.
“I need to pierce the viewers of this movie with deep-rooted, gut-wrenching empathy. And I would like individuals who have skilled this trauma to know they don’t seem to be alone.”
“Anybody might be topic to such a bullying, no matter gender, race, ethnicity, class, or worldly location. I would like others on the market to know they don’t seem to be alone and to see their story validated by concrete visuals. I need to pierce the viewers of this movie with deep-rooted, gut-wrenching empathy. And I would like individuals who have skilled this trauma to know they don’t seem to be alone.
“Whereas the ultimate movie is one thing I’m extraordinarily happy with, I’m much more happy with the shut bonds we’ve created amongst our crew whereas designing and animating collectively. Generally it felt like one big therapeutic and remedy session, the place we’d all work by our collective wounds collectively by creatively collaborating.
“Between Strains was solid from trauma, however a way of therapeutic and connection sprouted from the inventive course of.”
Manufacturing: Hornet
Director: Sarah Beth Morgan
Animation Director: Taylor Yontz
Producer: Rebekah Hamilton
Artwork Course: Sarah Beth Morgan
Story: Sarah Beth Morgan
Poem: Nirrimi Firebrace
Designer: Nuria Boj, Caroline Choi, Sarah Beth Morgan, Sara Ariel Wong
Animator: Margaret Bialis, Erin Bradley, Amy Charlick, Esther Cheung, Rocio Cogno, Julie Craft, Antoinie Eugene, Thea Glad, Amanda Godreau, Michelle Grepo, Sami Healy, Yahira Hernandez, Jasper Hilgers, Yino Huan, HyoBin Kang, Collin Leix, Katherine Pryor, Rachel Reid, Issey Roquet, Anna Taberko, Aly Tain, Camille Vincent, Pip Williamson, Khylin Woodrow, Rachel Yonda, Taylor Yontz
Music/sound design/VO: Jennifer Pague
Combine: Hope Brush
Strings Producer: Sophie Coran
Violin: Shelby Yamin
Cello: Nicole Boguslaw
Strings Recorded by: Michael Cumming at Treacle Mine Recording
Particular Thanks: Hornet, Dez Stavracos, Tyler Morgan, Molly Bowman
