Directed by Sam
Fell (Flushed Away, The Tale of Despereaux) and Chris Butler from a script by Butler, ParaNorman
centers on a misunderstood boy named Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit - McPhee) who can speak with the
dead.
First, the brown, churning water - the circle of our river around us; inside that, the quilt squares of our fields, which were turned dirt, newly planted seeds, the bright green carpet of a field just beginning to come to life, fences mended or
falling down into the soft new grass, humped haystacks, our cattle herd, our sheep herd, our goats, bare birch trees pointing straight into the heavens; and in the
center, in the heart, our cobbled and dirt streets, our red - tiled and gray - shingled roofs radiating out from the town square with its statue of a long -
dead war hero in the middle.
In
Fall 2016, she presented new works at the 32nd Bienal de São Paolo, Brazil and her solo exhibition
Dead Treez travelled to the Boston University Art Galleries (organized by the Kohler Arts
Center (2015) travelled to the Museum of Art and Design, New York (2015 - 16), before travelling to the University at Buffalo Art Galleries (2017).