Danish animation boutique Sønc (run by director Jeanette Nørgaard and producer Lorène Lescanne) twist together inspiration from Nordic art and anime into this mystery-filled animated pilot for a web series called “FJER.”

Jeanette Nørgaard: “The blood moon is watching over young bird-woman Crane who is preparing for a lust-harvesting ritual in the Bird’s Nest bar.

“Father, ruler, and lover Hawker puts pressure on her. If she fails, she must die. Crane is lost in a seductive neon-dance when a mysterious stranger enters and disturbs the ritual.

“So begins the story of FJER initiating a poetic and freaky urban fantasy web series about emancipation and the discovery of sexuality.”
 

Production: Sønc
Director: Jeanette Nørgaard
Producer, project manager: Lorène Lescanne
Screenplay: Jeanette Nørgaard, Camilla Hübbe
Storyboard: Jeanette Nørgaard, Mads Juul
Background: Marie Jørgensen
Characters, effects design: Jeanette Nørgaard
Lead animator: Laura Büchert Schjødt
Animators: Pernille Kjær, Julie Baltzer, Julie Astrup, Jeanette Nørgaard
Compositing, editing: Jeanette Nørgaard
Color: Lorène Lescanne, Julie Baltzer

Music: Jenny Rossander
Voices: Jenny Rossander, Jonas Bjerre, Danica Curci, Lars Halvorsen

Sound studio: Offscreen
Sound design, mix: Peter Albrechtsen
Dialogue editor: Lars Halvorsen
Assistent sound design: Mikkel Nielsen

Foley studio: H5 film sound LTD
Foley artist: Heikki Kossi
Foley mixer: Kari Vähäkuopus

Support: New Danish Screen, Den Vestdanske Filmpulje, ANIS