Changyou's Journey
Perry Chen
United States, 2017, 6 min.
This film is family friendly.
AIFF Award Winner:
Best of Indie Youth
A cancer-stricken father reminisces about his life through his young son's animated film.
Director's Statement
Hearing from my mom that my daddy only had two weeks to live, I was determined to make an animated film, Changyou's Journey, about my dad's life, to give him hope to live, and something to look forward to each day. I started drawing on my tablet from dawn to late night each day, thrilled to show the new scenes of the film I created each night to Changyou, who was so frail by then, he could only smile and nod his head with a thumbs-up sign.
Sunday, April 29
The Screening Room
12:30pm
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