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Cats

Directed by Jeff Chiba Stearns

Program 12: Vanimasian Retrospective / Canada / 2014 / Animation / 1 mins / No Dialogue / Black & White

Cats film still
Plays In:
Program 12 – VANIMASIAN RETROSPECTIVE

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

Description

A whimsical little cat animation created by drawing directly on an iPad using the McLaren’s Workshop iPad app.

Awards:

2014 Flathead Lake International Cinemafest – Polson, Montana, US
2014 Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


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: Jeff Chiba Stearns


Plays in

  1. Program 12 - Vanimasian Retrospective

    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…)



Preceded By

  1. Wind And Tree film still

    Wind & Tree

    Konstantin Steshenko / Program 12: Vanimasian Retrospective / Canada / 2013 / Animation, Family / 6.5 mins
    When a lone wind and tree fall in love, their decision to stay together leads to both sacrifice and hope.

    Preceded by: Lost and Found

    Precedes: Cats



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Dates & Times

Plays In:
Program 12 – VANIMASIAN RETROSPECTIVE

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