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Now part of the LA TIMES SHORT DOCS

It is with great pleasure to announce that the “The Chemical Factory” is now part of the LA Times Short Doc series. Full film can be watched here.

Past Screenings

 
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The Chemical Factory: A Documation

My name is Andrew Leung and I’m an award winning concept artist and director for “The Chemical Factory”.

It’s a short animated documentary that is a vignette centered upon a Chinese immigrant mother (Cheuk Yee Chan) recounting her life growing up during the tumultuous 1960's communist China to her American son (Andrew Leung). It is a multi-lingual film in both English and Cantonese, a language spoken by over 6 million people in the world, that has been systematically phased out by the Chinese government.

The veneer of presumed weakness in an aged Chinese woman is stripped away by a story of mass hunger, family separation, and world gone sideways. This stands in stark contrast to the recent spate of violence perpetrated upon Asian people in America during the pandemic. Distilled from an original 6 hour interview, the short documentary is recounted as an animation to visualize a world that has been erased by shame.

 
 
 

CURRENTLY IN FESTIVALS

“The Chemical Factory” is currently in festivals and was recently the official selection of Vancouver’s 2021 Sparks Animation Festival and 2021 St. Louis International Film Festival (Cinema St. Louis). It also won best animated documentary at the 2021 Doc LA Festival in Los Angeles.

technology

The film also leverages Unreal Engine software, the latest in cutting edge real-time CGI technology which has only recently become usable for filmmakers. It allow edfor a high production quality that was only previously available to big budget studios with powerhouse rendering farms, now for a fraction of the cost.

 
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