Porcelain War

Songbird Studios & Imaginary Lane

Using exquisite animation, combat drones, and wry first person narrative, this evocative documentary is told by and about Ukrainian civilians called upon to defend their country who still cling to the beauty of their culture, art and nature.


CREDITS

Directed by Brendan Bellomo & Slava Leontyev  

Written by Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev, Paula DuPré Pesmen, Aniela Sidorska

Produced by Olivia Ahnemann, Paula DuPré Pesmen, p.g.a., Camilla Mazzaferro, Aniela Sidorska, p.g.a.   

Executive Producers: Michael Anders, James Balog, Joe Barnathan, 

Howard G. Buffett, Amy Carpenter, Steve Carpenter, Andrea Cayton, Garrett Cayton, Linda A. Cornfield, David J. Cornfield, Rob Galluzzo, Al Hicks, Ginny Jordan, Karl Kister, Kevin Marciano, Luke Mazzaferro, Josh Peters, Robina Riccitiello, John Schmidt, Sheri Sobrato, Jeffrey Sobrato, Lisa Sobrato Sonsini, Georgia Welles

Co-Executive Producers: William Campbell, Robin Chesler, Alice Fiori, Marsha Garces Williams 

Contributing Producers: Heather A. Baldry, Steve Balog, Rosalie Balog, Susan Coyle, Sakurako Fisher, Lyda Kuth 

Cinematography: Andrey Stefanov  

Editing: Brendan Bellomo, Kelly Cameron, Aniela Sidorska

Associate Producers: Kateryna Lapina, Anya Stasenko  

Music by DakhaBrakha 

Animation by Visual Effects

BluBlu Studios: Brendan Bellomo, Quade Biddle 

Additional Camera: Slava Leontyev

GoPro Camera Operators: August, Diver, Katya, Johnny, Korsar, Palvel 

Drone Camera Operators: Diver, DJ, Korsar, Printer 

Sound Recordist: Slava Leontyev, Andrey Stefanov  

Ukraine Logistics & BTS Camera: Sergij Dutka, Igor Melnik, Victoria Melnik

Military Consultant: Matthew Parrott 

Drone & GoPro Camera Advisor: Anton Lenke 

Post Production Supervisor: Camilla Mazzaferro, Luke Mazzaferro, Aniela Sidorska

Post Production Coordinator: Casey Ventura  

Additional Editing: Scott Walmsley

Music Editor: Tim Starnes  

Assistant Editors: Sarah Hatzon, Harry Learoyd, Mandi Mesnekoff, Daniel O'Brien, Poorani Rajkumar, Liam Riley, Jarrod Young    

Interpreter: Kateryna Lapina 

Translation Advisors: Mikhail Mokeyev, Dale Pesmen, Michael Wasserman

Translators: Marta Hebrian, Olena Kariuk, Elena Mikhailik, Olena Radievska, Vladimir Tretyakov, Bjorn Winters

Post Production Assistants: Sunday Jones-Evans, Max Wild  

Archival Producer: Susan Johnson

Fact Checking: Amy Herdy, Avocados Are Fruit, LLC Cali Bagby, Rich Denmark, Noel Engels, Jim Moscou 

Additional Fact Checking: Curt Pesmen  

Impact Coordinator: Bennet Berlin 

Animation by BluBlu Studios 

Executive Producer: Gabriela Jabłońska

Assisting Producer: Mateusz Stelmaszczyk

Producer and Strategic Supervisor: Jakub Kurek, Jarek Nowak

Executive Creative Director: Jędrzej Skrzypczyk 

Art Director and Lead Illustrator: Ewa Baran, Jagoda Klaczyńska

Illustrator: Bartek Zaborski

Lead Animator and Compositing (3D): Michał Machowina 

Lead Animator (2D): Jagoda Kaleta

2D Animation: Piotr Krzyżykowski

Animation and Clean Up: Jagoda Kaleta, Jakub Kanarek, Karolina Specht, Tomasz Wyrąbkiewicz

Color: Bartosz Dłużewski, Jagoda Kaleta, Jakub Kanarek, Karolina Specht, Zuzanna Tomasiak, Tomasz Wyrąbkiewicz

Finance Department: Jakub Kurek, Małgorzata Matejko-Kurek

Agent/Producer: Liz Shaw

BluBlu Studios Represented by Liz Laine Reps, Inc.

Visual Effects by Visro Media 

Executive Producer: Vishishth Kumar 

Digital Producer: Saumya Sharma

Digital Coordinator: Hari Prasad PHR

Digital Artists: Abishek Adiraju, Srinivasan Arul, Pramod Basavaraju, Gunasekaran Balasundaram, Soumitra Bisai, Srinath Ettiyan, Dhamodaran Govindharaj, Prasanna Hegde, Sutharsanan Karthigaivel, Aravind Mani, Kishore Nanjundappa, Muthulakshmi Pandurangan, Suriya Pazhani, Ellamparuthi Pzhanisamy, Ajai Ramamoorthi, Satyajit Raul, Sagar Reddy, Sandhiya Sekar, Suriya Selvam, Sripavan Siddabattula, Bhakiaraj Soundharajan, Rajesh Sundar, Aditya Thenraj, Karthik Vasu, Yuvarani Velou

Visual Effects by Light Sail VR

3D Artist: Mike Hodgetts 

Tracking and Match-Moving: Alex Pearce  

Color by Crayon 

Colorist: Kali Bateman

Color Executive Producer: Bridget O'Shea

Color Producers: Isobelle Amie, Meg Doyle

Film Grain Emulation by Invisigrain

DCP Mastering by Post Lab IO  

Sound by RMS 

Co-Supervising Sound Editor: Robert Mackenzie

Re-Recording Mixer: Sam Hayward  

Supervising Sound Editor & Dialogue Supervisor: Jared Dwyer  

Designer & Sound Effects Editor: Alex Francis, Andrew Miller, Joe Mount  

Foley Artist: Adrian Medhurst

Foley Recorder: Duncan Campbell

Ukraine Foley Mixer: Karina Rezhevska  

Ukraine Foley Artist: Diana Oleksiiko

Ukraine Foley Editor: Pavlo Nivievskyi

1st Sound Assistant: Matt Le

Sound Assistant: Sean Walker

RMS Producer: Monica Anderson

Music by DakhaBrakha 

Musicians: Nina Garenetska, Marko Halanevych, Iryna Kovalenko, Olena Tsubulska

Director and Founder: Vladyslav Troitskyi

Artist Manager: Iryna Gorban

Additional Music Arrangement by Tim Starnes

Written and Performed by DakhaBrakha

Additional Composers: Belarus Trio, Port Mone, Ukraine Music 

Performances: DakhaBrakha, Ukraine Concerts

Filmed By SKYDIVEFILM Production  

Director and Co-Producer "DakhaBrakha: On the Road" Anna Korzh 

Directors of Photography: Vadym Ilkov, Denys Melnyk

Camera: Viktoriya Belyavska, Anton Borysiuk, Misha Lybarsky

Sound Designer: Andrii Nidzelskyi


Songbird Studios 

Chief Financial Officer: Rebecca Day

Financial Controller: Elysse Welk

Executive Assistant to Rob Galluzzo: Kate Feather 

Production Coordinator: Adelaide Helena  


Finch 

Managing Director & Executive Producer: Corey Esse

Post Production Executive Producer: Amelia Bromley

Production Assistants: Alana Carling, Lily Rodgers