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Stop motion animation director Evan DeRushie joins Kickin’ It With Tyree to discuss his work as animation director on Mangittatuarjuk The Gnawer of Rocks, a Sundance selected animated short rooted in Inuit oral tradition.

Based in Toronto, DeRushie runs Stop Motion Department, a studio specializing exclusively in handcrafted stop motion animation. In this conversation, he breaks down how his team partnered with Inuit owned TechHut Productions to translate a culturally significant story into a tactile miniature world while ensuring all creative and cultural authority remained with director Louise Flaherty.

The discussion explores:
• Translating oral tradition into visual storytelling
• Building authenticity through material research and consultation
• Creating texture and atmosphere using handmade garments and sets
• Why stop motion allows for collective understanding on set
• Expressing fear and emotion with minimal facial detail
• Editing and shaping rhythm in stop motion storytelling
• What it means to premiere an Inuktitut language film at Sundance

Selected for the Sundance Film Festival Animated Shorts Program, Mangittatuarjuk The Gnawer of Rocks follows two young women drawn away from their camp by glowing stones and into the lair of a dangerous spirit, blending myth caution and cultural memory.

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