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Itsy Bitsy Shorts

Date
May 5, 2018
Time
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Cost
Free
Organizer’s Site
http://festival.vconline.org/2018/

Love! Colors! Food! Dance! Dancing Food! This vibrant program of films is geared towards the young and the young-at-heart. All ages, imaginations, and hungry bellies welcome. A special event for children will follow the screening immediately outside because we all know what happens when we make kids wait. This event is part of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.

In This Program

FILL AND MOO

TOSHIKO HATA / JAPAN / 2017 / ANIMATION, FAMILY / 8 MINS

A short clay animation for children to inspire their excitement for movies.

FIRST BLOOM

TINGTING LIU / SHORTS COMPETITION / CHINA, USA / 2017 / ANIMATION / 5 MINS

Sometimes difficulties in life become a huge wall. We might get hurt and struggle, but we still fight to live and bloom.

KONIGIRI-KUN SHOPPING

MARI MIYAZAWA / JAPAN / 2015 / ANIMATION, FAMILY / 5 MINS

Konigiri-Kun goes shopping with his pet, Brorog.

LAST DANCE

PETER ZHAOYU ZHOU / USA / 2017 / ANIMATION, EXPERIMENTAL, HISTORY, INTERNATIONAL, MUSIC, MUSICAL, WOMEN / 3 MINS

LAST DANCE is an experimental motion visualization film about a romance from ancient China.

SESAME STUDIOS “CELEBRATE LUNAR NEW YEAR!”

LIZZI AKANA / USA / 2017 / ANIMATION, EDUCATIONAL, FAMILY, MUSIC, MUSICAL / 2 MINS

Join us at the Lunar New Year parade and sing along to this exciting new song!

WATER COLORS

TAKASHI YONEOKA / JAPAN / 2017 / ANIMATION / 1 MINS

When nobody is in a room, tiny watercolour painters jump onto the canvas.

THE WISHING CRANES

ELLEN ARNOLD, KAIYA TELLE, THOMAS ANDERHOLM / USA / 2017 / ADVENTURE, ANIMATION, FAMILY, FANTASY, INTERNATIONAL, STUDENT / 4 MINS

When an orphaned paper boy fails to spend time with his younger sister, she makes a wish by folding his papers into a thousand cranes.

Location

Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA United States + Google Map

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