Fishing With Popo

An Animation Documentary. As she visits her grandmother’s grave, a girl remembers the funeral, her grandmother’s vivid storytelling and a curious dream that she had of her grandmother in her after-life.

Fishing with Popo (2011) l 8min

“Two years after my grandmother’s death, I decided to do a documentary about her. I had no footage of her except a half-hour interview and some photographs. I interviewed my relatives as they revealed how her simplicity and humility always concealed her sacrifices in her lifetime. In those interviews, I realized, that ‘true accounts’ would, however, be shadowed by the interviewee’s personality and vocabulary. The more I dug for her stories and physical traces, the more I realized my memories of her were the most powerful images to build a portrait of her. In animation I have tried to relive those memories and stories and express my longing for her.” (Lilian Fu)

Awards:

-Best Animation- WAMM (Women And Minorities in Media Festival) 2012

Official selections:

-BIG SKY Documentary Film Festival 2013

-InDPolar International Animation Festival (InDPolar國際動畫節)2012

- It’s All True - International Documentary Film Festival 2012

-LIDF London Inter’ documentary festival 2012

Director - Wing Yan Lilian, Fu

writer(s) - Wing Yan Lilian, Fu, Akshay Singh

Editor - John Murphy

Sound editor - Pavol Kajan

Composer - Finn McNicholas

Sound Mixing -Pavol Kajan

Animator(s) - Wing Yan Lilian, FU
                 Ana Caro
                 Min Young Oh
                 Vivian Fu

Colorist(s) - Kristina Yee
Claire Winter
Yousif Al-khalifa

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