2020 ShortFest Archive
Based on the ancient Chinese creation myth, Pangu is a modern tale about parenthood and the differences between generations. Pangu creates a rigid world of straight and square shapes, but there’s just one problem: his son sees the world as curves and circles.
In competition for Best Animated Short
In competition for Best Animated Short
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TAIKO Founder and CEO Shaofu Zhang has been inspired by film and animation from an early age. Shaofu built a career as a veteran character animator at Walt Disney Animation and Sony Imageworks. In addition, his student short film Dragonboy won the gold medal at the 38th Student Academy Awards in 2011. He most recently co-wrote and produced the Oscar-nominated animated short One Small Step and directed Fú, a short for Airbnb.