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Jazz is a brilliant singer/songwriter and composer. Byron was assistant director on the film and he handled the CGI and color grade.

Byron is an accomplished filmmaker and cinematographer with tremendous creative and technical skills. It was a truly fulfilling experience to work together with my family and our home was a hub of creativity for the four months that we worked together.Ĭarol has been an artist for over 30 years and so she applied her skills to the drawing, the animation and the supervision of a team of artists. My family often support each other on our individual projects but with 'Je suis un Crayon' ( I am a Pencil) we were all able to hold an equal footing in our own respective areas on the same project. Fortunately, everyone was available at the same time and agreed to work on the film. My wife Carol, and my children, Jazz and Byron are each very talented, award winning creatives and I thought it would be great if we could all work together on this project. The film is a true family affair, isn't it? The credits include the names Joe, Carol, Jazz & Byron D'Arcy. What was different in the Charlie Hebdo murders from other acts of terrorism was that this was a direct attack on free expression, based on the misguided premise that expression can be repressed with force. When I saw so many people stand alongside the members of Charlie Hebdo on that day, I felt a surge from deep within and I was compelled to write the story of the pencil, reflecting the expression that exists within us all.

As I watched this unfold from the other side of the world, I was deeply impacted by the passion and resilience of the human spirit. The cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo dedicated their lives to freedom of expression and unfortunately, it was this need to express themselves that cost them their lives. Three days after the Charlie Hebdo murders, over three million people marched in support of freedom of expression. How long after the Charlie Hebdo massacre did you decide to make this film, and what was it about that particular terrorist incident that inspired you to make a film?