Canadian Premiere
A new priest must walk from his apartment to the town church during the last hour of Mardi Gras.
Arne MacPherson
Canada
2025
English
Drug & alcohol abuse
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Credits & Director
Producer
Diana Thorneycroft
Screenwriter
Diana Thorneycroft
Cinematography
Mike Maryniuk
ANIM
Evin Collis, Mike Maryniuk,, Seth Woodyard
Editor
Mike Maryniuk
Production Design
Diana Thorneycroft
Diana Thorneycroft
Diana Thorneycroft is an award-winning visual artist living in Winnipeg, Canada. She has exhibited various bodies of work across Canada, the United States, and Europe, as well as in Moscow, Tokyo, and Sydney. Thorneycroft’s first animation, Black Forest Sanatorium (2020), had its premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival and has been shown in over a dozen festivals.
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