Year of the Fish

Year of the Fish

Infobox Film
name = Year of the Fish


caption = Theatrical release poster
director = David Kaplan
producer = Rocco Caruso
David Kaplan
writer = David Kaplan
narrator =
starring = Tsai Chin
Ken Leung
Randall Duk Kim
music = Paul Cantelon
cinematography = Adam Silver
editing = François Keraudren
distributor =
released = 2008
runtime =
country = United States
language = English
budget =
gross =
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amg_id =
imdb_id = 0872236

"Year of the Fish" is an American animated film based on 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.cite news |first=Bill |last=White |authorlink= |author= |coauthors= |title='Year of the Fish:' This Cinderella story is not for children |url=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/movies/380567_yearof26q.html |format= |work= |publisher=Seattle Post Intelligencer |location= |id= |pages= |page= |date=September 25, 2008 |accessdate=2008-09-26 |language= |quote= |archiveurl= |archivedate= ]

The film was executive produced by Janet Yang ("Joy Luck Club") and produced by Rocco Caruso ("Judy Berlin").Fact|date=September 2008 Kaplan's screenplay was developed at the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs and was the recipient of a 2005 Annenberg Fellowship.Fact|date=September 2008 "Year of the Fish" had its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.Fact|date=September 2008

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.

References

External links

* [http://www.yearofthefish.com Official site]
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