WINNER: 2007 Animasian Award for Best Animated Film - 11th Toronto Reel Asian International Film FestivalWINNER: 2008 Best Animated Short Subject - 2nd Annual ELANS, Canadian Awards for the Electronic and the Animated ArtsWINNER: 2008 Youth Jury Honourable Mention: 12th Freeze Frame International Festival of Film for Kids of All Ages WINNER: 2008 Remi Award Winner for Best Animated (Classic Cel Animation): 41st WorldFest - Houston Remi AwardsWINNER: 2008 Golden Sheaf Award for Best Animation and Nominated for Best Director Fiction: 61st Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival
Festivals
2007 11th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2008 7th Tribeca Film Festival – New York City, New York, US
2008 Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation - International Traveling Animation Festival
2008 3rd DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon – Eugene, Oregon, US
2008 Dawson City International Short Film Festival – Dawson City Yukon, Canada
2008 12th Freeze Frame International Festival of Film for Kids of All Ages – Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
2008 9th Newport Beach Film Festival – Orange County, California, USA
2008 24nd Los Angeles VC Asian Pacific Film Festival – Los Angeles, California, USA
Yellow Sticky Notes's Interests
General
TECHNICAL NOTES: Yellow Sticky Notes is a classically animated film that was entirely hand drawn. The entire film was animated directly onto 4x6 inch yellow sticky notes with only a black Staedtler Permanent fine tipped marker. 2300 yellow stick notes were used to complete the film and the process took 9 months to complete. Animation was captured using a digital Canon SLR camera and camera stand. The final digital cells were color corrected in Photoshop and then compiled in Final Cut Pro. The final movie was transferred to Betacam SP and DVD.
Music
Genevieve Vincent - Yellow Sticky Note Original Musical Score
Movies
“Yellow Sticky Notes, a funny, lively and insightful look at the life of a working artist and activist – all told through thousands of yellow sticky notes. An original idea, impeccably executed, and all those years and pieces of paper were well spent.”
- Glenn Sumi, Associate Entertainment Editor at Now Magazine - Toronto Reel Asian International Jury statement
About me: Order a collectable DVD of Yellow Sticky Notes via PayPal at www.hapanimation.com or by sending a check or money order for $14 USD or CAD (includes shipping and handling) to:
Jeff Chiba Stearns
P.O. Box 30074
RPO Glenmore
Kelowna, BC
V1V 2M4
Make checks and money orders payable to Jeff Chiba Stearns and please make sure to include a shipping address with your payment. Only NTSC Region '0' DVD's available. International orders accepted.
SYNOPSIS:
After realizing that yellow sticky note “to do” lists were consuming his life, filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns decided to visually self-reflect on his filmmaking journey by animating on the same sticky notes that caused him to ignore major world events for the last nine years. Animation meditation is blended with image, text, and an original musical score by Genevieve Vincent through the creation of a classically animated experimental film that was drawn straight ahead with only a black ink pen on over 2300 yellow sticky notes.
Who I'd like to meet: Filmmaker’s Biography:
Jeff Chiba Stearns is an award-winning Canadian independent animation filmmaker, writer and artist, born in Kelowna, BC, of Japanese and European heritage. His film work incorporates various techniques - animation, documentary, and experimental. In 2001, he founded Meditating Bunny Studio. His short animated films have screened at film festivals around the world and have been broadcast in Canada by the CBC. In 2005, he completed the award-winning classically animated film, “What Are You Anyways?” The film is an exploration of his life growing up half-Japanese and half-Caucasian in a small Canadian town, and how he dealt with being typecast as a minority and overcame his struggle for self-identity.
After creating “What Are You Anyways?” the first animated film that explores Hapa issues, he has become an international spokesperson for mixed-race advocacy. The film has screened at over 40 international film festivals and won 7 awards including the award for Best Animated Short Subject at the Canadian Awards for Electronic and Animated Arts. Currently he is working on a documentary entitled, One Big Hapa Family. He has also written articles for national publications and lectured around the world at conferences and universities about mixed-race identity, cultural awareness, animation process, and Hapa issues. On top of filmmaking, he is also the classical animation instructor at the Center of Arts and Technology Kelowna and the Vice President of the Okanagan Film Festival.
Jeff, Thank you for having me as a friend. I really appreciate the friendship and support. So how long did it take to draw out the film?and wow was it all drawn by one individual?
Thanks for your friendship we need you to search using- Rage Search every search will raise money for our charity and will help us to make the 5million feature film possible.
Premise, 5 million people searching just once would enable us to give people the opportunity to be part of this film.
There are many ways you can be involved in this film,
spreading the word we need many many friends and they need to search...
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Contributing music,costumes, being part of the crew, cast, contributing ideas for the story....
If anyone is interested in ordering DVD's of Yellow Sticky Notes, message me if you're interested and I'll let you know how to order. They are $12 and include shipping. All proceeds to towards paying for the cost of sending the film to festivals (entry fees, shipping, envelopes, sticky notes!) Anyways, support independent animation!
The DVD includes bonus material like commentary tracks from Genevieve and me plus my first animated film Kip and Kyle. Oh ya, and a making of photo slide show! DVD's also make great gifts!
For those of you who live in Kelowna or Vancouver who are interested in picking up a copy of Yellow Sticky Notes for friends or family or yourself, you can buy them for $12 from Komatsu Japanese Market in Kelowna on Kirschner Road or in Vancouver at the Nikkei Place Museum Gift Shop in Burnaby off of Sperling Road.
Yellow Sticky Notes took home the award for Best Animated Short Subject at the 2008 Canadian Awards for Electronic and Animated Arts (The Elan's) on Friday, Feb. 15th! This was the 2nd Annual awards show and there were 36 categories honoring the video game and animation industry. Check out all the info at www. theelans. com
Yellow Sticky Notes has started it's 2008 theatrical release as part of the Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival. Check it out at a city near you touring all year round.
