Exit, Pursued by a Bear

Married Madeline can no longer sustain her storybook existence and longs for a grizzly end.

DIRECTOR: Sara Pensalfini Brown
PRODUCER: Daniel Weavell
WRITER/S: Sara Pensalfini Brown
DURATION: 11’38”
YEAR: 2010

Madeline is reaching middle life. She is disconnected from her husband and when her mother in law dies, she is thrown into a child-like state of ‘wanting’.  Haunted by her past and hunted down by the bear she created decades earlier, Madeline finally stops running and returns to the place where fear is a wonder.

KEY CAST:

Meg Bignell - MADELINE
Nathan Spencer - GLENN
Isabelle Moorfield - GIRL

KEY CREW:

EXEC PRODUCER: Beverley Jefferson and Graham Gates
SUPERVISING PRODUCER: Roger Scholes
SCRIPT EDITOR: Jonathon Dawson
Director of Photography: Simon Gray 
Production and Costume Designer: Monique Germon
Editor: Shaun Wilson
Composer: Heath Brown
Bear FX: Mel Cooper & Karen Fahey 
Animator: Stefan Le Mottee
1st AD: Shaun Wilson
Sound Mix: Michael Gissing