Inspirare Theatre NFP
Season one - folk, fairy, and cultural tales
See our early films for free. View my fairy tale series and and some other early films here.
https://www.dailymotion.com/MythicTalesForPsyche
Our award-winning films are filled with heart and questions for the soul.
They follow our stop motion learning curve and are delightfully scrappy.
These films are fantastic for both children and adults.
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Founder Laura Lewis-Barr -- Inspirare
Laura was a graduate student in clinical psychology but eventually switched majors and earned her M.A in theatre. Laura began Inspirare in suburban Chicago in 2005. She produced site-specific events and continued to write plays. After her play, "Cloistered Honey," was made into a low budget film, Laura began making short stop motion films. Laura’s films have been screened at festivals around the world. Laura continues to study Jungian psychology. She loves using animation as a way to explore the deepl lessons embedded in folk and fairy tales.
Production Stills
Stop motion + fairytales +passion
"After I bought a camera I took a series of filmmaking bootcamp classes with Chicago Filmmakers. Then I gathered some 11 inch dolls. My husband made me a little stage in our basement. I began teaching myself stop motion filmmaking. The dolls were a perfect cast – patient with me as I learned the camera.
When the pandemic ended my freelance day job, I used the extra time to keep working – filming in my basement, then recording audio in my homemade sound box, then editing the results. When my stories needed other voices, local actors sent me sound files.
I've fallen in love with this artform and alternate between creating shorts of updated fairy tales and original scripts exploring characters and culture."
Recent films on the Festival Circuit
