The Old Man and The Pears 种梨

Sun, Jing is a graduate student at California State University Los Angeles where she is majoring in animation studies with a concentration in aesthetic animation shorts. Her interest in animation began during the last two years of her BFA study in Jilin Animation institute in China, when she had the opportunities to cooperate with Dmitry Geller, a Russian independent animation director. Their animation shorts like I Saw Mice Burying A Cat won numerous awards all over the world, including the Grand Prix Festival, in Hiroshima, Japan，the Best Short Film in with “Golden Monkey” in China，and the Special Jury Prize with “Suzdal” in Russia. Inspired by this international cooperation, Jing went to the United States to pursue her MFA in 2014 and has completed her first independent animation short, “The Old Man and The Pears” in 2016. She is currently working on her thesis project “Prey”. Her goal is to continue to explore in the aesthetic areas of animation, to invent and explore more possibilities in visualization.

When she is not busy working on animation, she enjoys playing Chinese Zither, an instrument also called GuZheng, for comprehensive accomplishment which is good for composition of her animation works. Jing was a volunteer for 31th Annual Los Angeles Kingdom Day Parade in January 2016 to explore the culture diversity and human rights.

孙晶，加州州立大学洛杉矶分校艺术硕士研究生，剪纸动画及实验动画短片导演。2008年至2012年本科毕业于中国吉林动画学院。在校期间，由在校师生合作与俄罗斯动画导演Dmitry Geller 学习制作艺术动画短片《猫和老鼠谁将被埋葬》。并于2012年荣获中国动画美猴奖最佳动画短片奖，日本国际广岛动画电影节最佳动画短片奖，俄罗斯苏兹达尔特别评审团奖 以及入围第85届奥斯卡动画短片。2016年研究生在读期间，与同校作曲系在读研究生刘双一协作完成剪纸动画短片《种梨》。于次年荣获第26届加州州立大学艺术媒体电影节最佳动画短片奖以及其他海内外各类艺术电影节奖项八个；入选洛杉矶国际儿童电影节，于2016年年底在洛杉矶郡立博物馆影展。