Year of the Fish

Year of the Fish

Theatrical release poster
Directed by David Kaplan
Produced by Rocco Caruso
David Kaplan
Written by David Kaplan
Starring Tsai Chin
Ken Leung
Randall Duk Kim
Music by Paul Cantelon
Cinematography Adam Silver
Edited by François Keraudren
Release dates
  • October 14, 2007 (2007-10-14) (Austin Film Festival)
Country United States
Language English

Year of the Fish is a 2007 American animated film based on Ye Xian, a ninth-century Chinese variant of the fairy tale Cinderella, starring Tsai Chin, Randall Duk Kim, Ken Leung and An Nguyen. Written and directed by David Kaplan, the film is set in a massage parlor in modern-day New York's Chinatown.[1]

The film was executive produced by Janet Yang and produced by Rocco Caruso. 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.

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.

References

  1. 1 2 White, Bill (September 25, 2008). "'Year of the Fish:' This Cinderella story is not for children". Seattle Post Intelligencer. Retrieved 2008-09-26.
  2. ↑ Hernandez, Eugene (May 26, 2005). "Six Selected for Second Year Sundance Annenberg Fellowship". SnagFilms. Retrieved December 4, 2012.

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