Mascarade - Origin Story is an exploration retracing Aïsha past events of her upbringing as an Haitian growing up in Montreal-Nord. From discovering purposes through music and travels in Brazil, to finding a chosen family and the resulting sense of belonging, disruptions of the past evolve into knowledge. As a woman now, she achieves grace and turns traumas into healing.

A film by Maïlis

Starring Aïsha C. Vertus, Oxanna Deverze, Cathia Cariotte, J. Style, Anaïs Gilles, Bernardo Laureano, Jullia Roque, Sumé Aguiar, Fernanda Liberti, Uriel Dames, Thompson Oliveira, Andrea Silvestre, Telma Gomes, Sueli Miranda, Eliana Dias and Claudia Leopoldo

Creative director and music - Gayance – Aïsha C. Vertus

Cinematographer - Antoine Ryan

Executive producer - Carolan Grégoire

Executive producers - Aïsha C. Vertus, Maïlis, Antoine Ryan

Production - Consulat and Station Service

Post-production - Outpost Mtl

MONTREAL UNIT

Production designer - Alexia Roc

Assistant art director - Emem Etti

Stylist - Racky Sow

Stylist assistant - Yolanta Szalwinska

Gayance's stylist - Eunice Huot

Gayance's hair stylist - Michal Harewood

Make-up artist - Gérardine Jeune

Hair assistant - Murielle Bien-Aimé

First assistant director - Carolan Grégoire

First assistant camera - Benjamin Gagné

Gaffers - Luna Gautier and Luis Fidalgo

Key grip and crane operator - Nicolas Lesage

Ronin operator - Austin Sumner-Grass

Grips - Evangelos Desborough and Léo Mangeon

Best boy - Geoffrey McCaldin

Location coordinator - Valéry Lajoie

SFX specialist - Mico Mazza

SFX assistant - Alexi Hobbs

Unit production manager - Olivier Gagné

Production coordinators - Lola-Lou Fergeau--Mariko, Marie-Jeanne Anglehart and Léa Mullen

Production assistants - Michel Grenier, Eliott Guenoden and Tiffany St-Surin

Accountant - Christine Hallak

BRAZIL UNIT

Producer - Déborah Zapata

Line producer - Clara Nunes

Art Director - Janice Mascarenhas

Assistant art director - Bida Sarô

Props assistant - Eva Bensiman

Hair and makeup artist - Victor Manoel

Hair stylists - Janice Mascarenhas and Afrontoso Styles

Casting - Marcia Meloni

Drivers - Flavio Freitas, Eriberto Ribeiro, Bruno Dos Santos David and Renato Pedro do Nascimento

Nursing technicians - Thiago Choté, Joice Mota da Silva Andrade and Márcio de Araújo Dias

COVID Tests - Check Up Assessoria em Saúde

POST-PRODUCTION

Editor - Xavier Lévesque

Color grading - Simon Boisx for Arketype

OUTPOST

Editor - Travis Komarnisky

General manager - Bertrand Paquette

Post-production director - Simon Allard

Project manager - Julia Aubry

Online editors - Amélie Santerre and Martin Gaumond

Post-production assistants - Celia Dehouche and Maxime Seleiro

Translators - Clara Nunes and Oumayma Bouanane

Graphic designer - Hugo Mut and Alexi Hobbs

Photo editor - Béatrice Munn

Music - Gayance - Album Mascarade - all rights reserved

Sound designer - Michaël Anctil

Sound mix - Stéphane Carreau and Ivann Uruena - Studio Bakery

Special thanks to : Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ) Sébastien Boyer - Consulat Bertrand Paquette - Outpost Station Service Stukely Rhythm Section Emilly Hill Bradley Zero Julio Mendy Alexi Hobbs Betao Ivann Uruena Madeleine Dufour Martine Chartrand Petr Barykine Vincent McDonald Favela Hype Ellias Kaleb Dj Perturbado