SYNOPSIS

A surreal dark comedy stars Judith Roberts who played Beautiful Girl across the Hall in David Lynch's Eraserhead and Jo's Mum in Ramsey's You Were Never Really Here. THE LION features Katherine, (Miss Roberts), who wins a Make a Wish Contest. Her wish? To pet the lion at the zoo. Katherine’s cathartic adventure is a unique combination of live action and stop motion animation that uses direct address, an eclectic landscape of objects, dioramas, photographs that come alive, and a small toy theater built into a wall that becomes the lion’s cage. The story resonates for us as a tale about loss, about looking that “lion in the eye,” and ultimately a reminder of how it’s our story that can heal us.

GÉNÉRIQUE

• Director

  Abigail Zealey Bess

• Production

  Abigail Zealey Bess

• Referent

  Abigail Zealey Bess

• Sales

  Abigail Zealey Bess

• Cast / With

  Judith Roberts

• Camera

  Alan McIntyre Smith

• Script

  Kira Obolensky

• Screenplay adapted from

  Kira Obolensky

• Animation

  Irve Dell

• Special effects

  Irve Dell

• Decors

  Irve Dell

• Editing

  David Beinstein

• Sound designer

  Sam Perez

• Sound Mixing

  Sam Perez