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Merry The Christmas Witch

Completed Feature

Trailer coming soon

First Look

Malacha’s Performance
Merry Fights the Brooms
Poster for Merry The Christmas Witch, tagline ‘The witch who saved Christmas’. Merry flies her candy-cane broom past a split red and green moon above the swamp, the coven and a bound Santa below her, her striped cat in the foreground.

A witch born
on Christmas Day.

Merry The Christmas Witch is an AI feature co-written and directed by Tom Walsh, produced by TW3 Entertainment and Phatty Acid, and based on the book by Bobbi Hess.

For more than three hundred years, witches have lived apart from society, timing the birth of their children to Halloween week. Sixteen years ago, deep in the bayous of Louisiana, a baby witch was born on Christmas Day. It had never happened before. The Coven named her Merry.

Where every other witch wears black and rides a broomstick, Merry wears red and travels on a life-sized candy cane, a gift from Santa. When a group of evil witches seizes the Coven and captures Santa Claus to destroy Christmas, Merry must return to the kingdom that cast her out and fight for both worlds at once.

Made the way films are made

Actors played the scenes. Those performances guided what you see and hear, which is not the same as typing a prompt. An artist drew the boards. A composer wrote and orchestrated the score. The picture was cut and mixed on a dub stage, and the story idea came from a published book.

From board to frame

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Sequence 15B

Production Gallery

A mix engineer at the console on the dub stage, Swampy on the screen above with timecode running.
The finishing team on the dub stage, the Merry The Christmas Witch title card on the screen behind them with timecode running.
A presenter works to camera on the Merry shoot, boom mic overhead and a softbox to one side.
A presenter delivers to camera against a white backdrop, lavalier mic clipped on and notes in hand.
Esmeralda on the dub-stage screen, timecode running, above a full mixing console.
Stephen Melillo's music editor notes for Merry The Christmas Witch: a bound book of hit markers, logistics and score from the motion picture.
The score book open on a spread of thirty-three hit points cued to timecode beside hand-orchestrated pages.
The published picture book Merry the Christmas Witch by Bobbi Hess, illustrated by Anne Reid, standing on a desk.
Merry presses her hands to a wall of framed witch portraits in a stone corridor.
Merry stands in a lamplit library at night, looking up past the tall windows.
An elder witch in a weathered hat smiles warmly by firelight.
Two witches streak low over a snowfield trailing violet magic.
Two small figures walk away down a muddy path through a misty cypress bayou, moss-draped trunks reflected in black standing water.
An elder witch hovers on a broom reading a letter, a hall of seated witches behind her.
Books fly open around a young witch in a lamplit library as she reads, teal magic glowing at her ear.
Three small witches in pointed hats stand together in a torchlit stone courtyard, looking upward.
A costumed crowd fills a village street at night for a Halloween parade.
A red haired witch stares up at an enormous serpent coiled around a ruined stone wall.
Merry casts a green spell over a white cat while an older witch looks on with a jar of cookies.
Merry walks a school hallway carrying books as three small witches watch from beside the lockers.

A completed feature.

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