Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart: Wolfwalkers, Song of the Sea and more

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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We're joined by film directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart—creators of the new animated film Wolfwalkers. The film is the third installment in their Irish folklore trilogy that includes 2009's The Secret of Kells and 2014's Song of the Sea. Their latest follows the story of a young apprentice hunter named Robin as she bridges the world between an emerging 17th century colonized Ireland and the mysterious wolves said to be overrunning the lush woods that surround her family's town of Kilkenny. The film is lush, thought-provoking and adventurous. Tomm and Ross chat with Jesse Thorn about their breathtaking film, the films that inspired them as children and their own relationships to Irish folklore. Plus, they'll tell us what cartoon they consider the perfect stoner movie.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:10.5	It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:22.2	So the other night my family and I sat down for movie night.
0:26.1	This is something you've probably done a hundred times.
0:28.8	You flip around through all the streaming choices.
0:31.0	You land on a movie that you've maybe heard good things about but haven't seen.
0:35.2	Then you try and convince the children that they want to watch it.
0:39.0	Anyway, that night we all watched a movie called Wolf Walkers.
0:44.4	It is a stunningly beautiful animated film.
0:49.0	Cell animated, not 3D computer animated.
0:52.2	It looks almost like a woodblock print.
0:55.6	It's set in Ireland in the 17th century.
0:58.2	The English have control over the country and in the town of Kilkenny, the crown is looking
1:03.0	to call the local wolf population.
1:06.0	The movie's protagonist is Robin.
1:08.3	She's moved to Kilkenny with her father who's been charged with exterminating the wolves.
1:13.4	Robin wades into a world of conflicts, cities encroaching on forests, English Christian
1:18.9	values clashing with Celtic traditions, colonizers and the colonized.
1:24.6	In between these two worlds, Robin discovers something magical, a group of people who
1:30.1	can turn into wolves.
1:32.4	The film is directed by Ross Stewart and Tom Moore.
1:35.8	Tom is the co-founder of Cartoon Saloon, an Academy Award-winning animation studio in
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