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Short Film
This project was produced as a gift to a non-profit organization to help bring awareness to the issue. It is our way as artists to give back to society and hopefully, in one form or another, help bring an end to such atrocities happening in the world today. This is the first part of a three part series. The other parts will be about sex slavery and child soldiers.
The following concept paintings served as a style, color, lighting and mood reference for the production of the film.
Top: Sex Slavery
Middle: Forced Labour
Bottom: Child Soldiers
Director's Choice Award
RINCON International Film Festival 2009
Best Animated Short Award
San Francisco Frozen Film Festival 2009
Best Animated Short Award
Detroit Windsor International Film Festival 2009
Best Animated Short Award
Bayou City Film Festival 2009
Best Animated Short Nominee
Long Island International Film Expo 2009
PANAMA TV Showcase
Winter 2010 on Sveriges Television AB (SVT), SWEDEN.
Short Notice TV Series Feature
Episode 104 on MNet America.
Arts Rational on CFRO 102.7 Radio
Fall 2010 Vancouver, CANADA
Stash Magazine
Issue 54, Feature, 2009, USA.
CG Magazine
Nov 2009 Issue, CHINA.
Short Film Corner, Festival De Cannes 2009
Vancouver International Film Festival 2009
Los Angeles United Film Festival 2009
Anchorage International Film Festival 2009
Artivist Film Festival 2009
Asian American International Film Festival 2009
Boston International Film Festival 2009
Delray Beach Film Festival 2009
East Los Angeles International Film Festival 2009
Indianapolis International Film Festival 2009
San Francisco United Film Festival 2009
Jersey Shore Film Festival 2009
Holly Shorts Film Festival 2009
Bronx Independent Film Festival 2009
SF Shorts International Festival of Short Films 2009
Tulsa United Film Festival 2009
SoCal Film Festival 2009
Grand Rapids Film Festival 2009
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2009
Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival 2009
Moondance International Film Festival 2009
Asian Pacific American Film Festival 2009
New York United Film Festival 2009
Chicago United Film Festival 2009
Chicago International Reel Shorts Film Festival 2009
Filmanthropy Film Festival 2009
Short Short Story Film Festival 2009
Indie Memphis Film Festival 2009
Big Bear Lake International Film Festival 2009
Indie Memphis International Film Festival 2010
Burbank International Film Festival 2010
Indie Memphis Freedom Series 2010
Director: Dickson Chow
Co-Director: Vinh Chung
Original story and screenplay written by: Dickson Chow and Vinh Chung
Voice of Narrator: Carmen Lezeth Suarez
Voice of Ernesto: Jorge Conzalez
Additional Voices: Justus Zimmerman
Designers: Dickson Chow, Vinh Chung
Additional designs: Lynn Wang, Kennis Chow, Rajeswaren Shanmugasundaram
3D Artists: Vinh Chung, Dickson Chow, Adrian Sairin, Sal Rangel, Christina Ku
Character Animators: Vinh Chung, Adrian Sairin
Background Painter: Rei Cayetano
Compositor and Colorist: Dickson Chow
Score: "Tolls", "This is Human", "Aquacreep"
Composed and performed by: Julie Belle
Production and engineering: Daley Hake
Music for Forced Labour: "Rondalla En LA Menor"
Composed and performed by: Sal Rangel
Sound Design and Final Mix: Eric Mason