"It wasn't easier, but it went faster," says Rémi Chayé about his second animated film,
Calamity, a childhood of Martha Jane Cannary
(prize for best feature film at the festival of 'Annecy) which follows the adventures of a 10-year-old girl at the end of the 19th century during the conquest of the West.
In the office of the production company Maybe Movies, in Paris, a poster of the film is placed alongside that of the already well-made previous one,
Tout en haut du monde
(audience award in the Savoyard city in 2015).
"We took five years to make
Calamity
instead of eleven for the first,"
says the filmmaker.
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At the top of the world
Once again supported by Henri Magelon and Claire La Combe, Rémi Chayé had the idea for this
“cartoon western”
when he saw a documentary on Arte devoted to Calamity Jane (1852-1903).
“I learned she had driven the Oregon Highway.
There was a potential story around a girl forced to do boyish stuff, Martha gets to drive a cart
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