Director, Mark Gustafson: One of the things I’m most proud of in this whole production is the chemistry of the team.
Puppet Creative Supervisor, Georgina Hayns: It’s been the most wonderful experience of all my movie career. Everybody’s heart and soul was in it.
Puppet Production Manager, Jennifer Hammontree: We built this project during a pandemic and that has been an intense emotional experience for everyone.
Art Production Manager, Whitney Schmerber: But everybody loved having a distraction and something beautiful to make while everything around you felt like it was collapsing.
Editor, Holly Klein: I don’t know if I’m going to have the opportunity to be a witness to this many people doing this amount of extensive work on such a project.
Puppet Maker, Ian McKinnon: The UK team were producing all the Pinocchio puppets and then working with the American team up in Portland.
Puppet Maker, Peter Saunders: There was also a Mexican team of puppet makers and they had their own characters to make and to animate. You have three teams separated by thousands of miles, but collaborating like we were next door to each other.
Production Manager, Sara Crowley: In stop motion, you blend all of those people together and you collaborate. And it really is a special, special way to make a film.
Senior Sculptor & Fabricator, Toby Froud: It truly is rewarding to create something and then see it come to life on screen and know that we were a part of making that.