What Are You Anyways?

Directed by Jeff Chiba Stearns

Program 12: Vanimasian Retrospective / Canada / 2005 / Animation / 10.5 mins / English / Colour

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Program 12 – VANIMASIAN RETROSPECTIVE

Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas
November 9, 2014 4:00 pm

Description

Follow the adventures of the Super Nip as filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns explores his cultural backgrounds growing up as a mix of Japanese and Caucasian in a small white-bred Canadian city. This short classically animated film looks at particular periods in Jeff’s life where he battled with finding an identity, being a half minority – from his childhood origins to the epic showdown against the monster truck drivin’ redneck crew. “What Are You Anyways?” is a humorous yet serious story of struggle and love, and finding one’s identity through the trials and tribulations of growing up.

Director's Bio

Jeff Chiba Stearns is an Emmy® nominated and Webby award-winning animation and documentary filmmaker. After graduating from the Emily Carr University with a degree in Film Animation, he founded Vancouver-based boutique animation studio Meditating Bunny Studio Inc. in 2001. From animated viral video ads and broadcast commercials for companies like Sharpie, 3M, Generali and Post-it Note, to short and feature films like “What Are You Anyways?” (2005), “Yellow Sticky Notes” (2007), “One Big Hapa Family” (2010), “Ode to a Post-it Note” (2010) and “Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam” (2013), Jeff’s work has broadcast around the world, screened in hundreds of international film festivals, and garnered 33 awards. The studio is currently completing its second feature length ani-doc and pitching various animated series.

Credits

Writer: Jeff Chiba Stearns
Producer: Ruth Vincent

Precedes

Never Now

Hao Chen / Program 12: Vanimasian Retrospective / Canada / 2006 / Animation / 4.5 mins
A journey to the other side goes horribly wrong.
Preceded by: What Are You Anyways?

Precedes: Gluttony

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Program 12: VANIMASIAN RETROSPECTIVE

Program 12: Vanimasian Retrospective / 104 mins
VANIMASIAN RETROSPECTIVE, curated by VAFF alumnus and Webby award-winning, Emmy® nominated animation and documentary filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns, features Vancouver-based Asian and Asian Canadian animators, and/or animations created in Vancouver, over the past 18 years. Join us after the screening for a panel moderated by Jeff Chiba Stearns, discussing independent and commercial animation in Vancouver as well as festival distribution strategies for animation with some of the retrospective's filmmakers.
In This Program: Cats, Insert Credit, Lost and Found, Wind & Tree, Crow’s Nests, Peter & the Space Between, Nature On Its Course, Zero (0), Key Tumi?, Gluttony, Permute, Never Now, What Are You Anyways?, Great Expectations (Not what you’re thinking…)