Year of the Fish
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The film was executive produced by Janet Yang and produced by Rocco Caruso.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Kaplan's screenplay was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs and was the recipient of a 2005 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship.[2] Year of the Fish had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The film was shot entirely on location in New York City's Chinatown using live actors and then animated in post-production via rotoscoping, the process of tracing over live-action footage to create an animation; in this case, a painterly, watercolor effect.[1] Some of the make-up on the strange-looking characters were removed by the rotoscoping.
Reception
Year of the Fish premiered as the Official Selection of the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was named "Best Film" at the 2007 Avignon Film Festival. It was also named "Best Film" at the 2007 Asheville Film Festival, won the Audience Award at the 2007 Independent Film Festival of Boston, and was nominated for the Piaget Producers Award at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards.
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- Animated films based on Cinderella
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- Animated films based on Chinese myths and legends
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