[BY JAY STONE, POSTMEDIA NEWS]

Christopher Plummer, Geneviève Bujold and Rachelle Lefevre head the cast of voice actors for Sarila, a new Canadian animated movie set among the Inuit people of the Arctic.

Sarila is being promoted as the first feature-length stereoscopic animated film created in Canada. Stereoscopic 3-D refers to a method of creating 3-D film by using two 2-D images.

Directed by Nancy Florence Savard and due out in 2012, Sarila was written by children’s author Roger Harvey and Pierre Tremblay, an expert in Inuit culture. The producers say it uses authentic settings and indigenous mythology, including Inuit legends.

“Sarila invites the use of stereo 3-D,” Savard said in a news release. “The characters travel across the tundra, through snowstorms, and meet strange, semi-mythical characters along the way. The immersive quality of the stereo 3-D draws the audience into their odyssey.”

Modus FX, a Montreal-based visual effects and animation company, has a team of 85 artists on the project. Sarila has a total of 35 talking characters, including people and animals. The voice tracks were recorded by the cast earlier this year.

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