Now part of the LA TIMES SHORT DOCS
It is with great pleasure to announce that the “The Chemical Factory” is now part of the LA Times Short Doc series. Full film can be watched here.
Past Screenings
LOS ANGELES, USA - 2022 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival Presented by VC Media
Sunday May 8, 2022 - 7:00PM “You Are Here Program”
Director’s Guild of America, Los Angeles
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TOKYO, JAPAN - 2022 Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia
Online 05/2/2022
Screening 06/12/2022 Torque Spice & Herb, Table & Court
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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - 2022 Doc Edge Film Festival
From 1 Jun
22 - 10 Jul22School Program
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SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA, USA - SEBASTOPOL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
March 30-Apil 9,2022 in person at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, OH
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NEW YORK, USA - Socially Relevant Film Festival of NY
03/20/2022-03/27/2022
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CLEVELAND, USA - Cleveland International Film Festival: FilmSlam
March 30-Apil 9,2022 in person at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, OH
online as CIFF46 Streams from April 10-17, 2022
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LOS ANGELES, USA - 2021 DocLA: Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival (Screening)
Thursday October 21, 2021 - 7:45PM
5300 Melrose Av LA CA 90038 - Enter @ 677 N Van Ness Av
Screens with “Ipseity” and “The Story Won’t Die”
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VANCOUVER, CANADA - 2021 Spark Animation Festival
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA - 2021 Cinema St. Louis International Film Festival
Free in person Event shown with Beijing Spring
Sunday, Nov 14, 2021 at 7:30pm
The Chemical Factory: A Documation
My name is Andrew Leung and I’m an award winning concept artist and director for “The Chemical Factory”.
It’s a short animated documentary that is a vignette centered upon a Chinese immigrant mother (Cheuk Yee Chan) recounting her life growing up during the tumultuous 1960's communist China to her American son (Andrew Leung). It is a multi-lingual film in both English and Cantonese, a language spoken by over 6 million people in the world, that has been systematically phased out by the Chinese government.
The veneer of presumed weakness in an aged Chinese woman is stripped away by a story of mass hunger, family separation, and world gone sideways. This stands in stark contrast to the recent spate of violence perpetrated upon Asian people in America during the pandemic. Distilled from an original 6 hour interview, the short documentary is recounted as an animation to visualize a world that has been erased by shame.
CURRENTLY IN FESTIVALS
“The Chemical Factory” is currently in festivals and was recently the official selection of Vancouver’s 2021 Sparks Animation Festival and 2021 St. Louis International Film Festival (Cinema St. Louis). It also won best animated documentary at the 2021 Doc LA Festival in Los Angeles.
technology
The film also leverages Unreal Engine software, the latest in cutting edge real-time CGI technology which has only recently become usable for filmmakers. It allow edfor a high production quality that was only previously available to big budget studios with powerhouse rendering farms, now for a fraction of the cost.
Become a SPonsor
“The Chemical Factory” documentary has hooked up with the Gotham Film Institute (formerly IFP). They are the official fiscal sponsorship for the project and is set up as a 501c3. What does that mean? All funding for the making of this documation is tax deductible!
Although the film is finished, there is still a ways to go with independent festival submissions and marketing. Click through the widget to the right of this for more information.
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