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I am not an Angel

A young Nurse Amy, unaware of the severity of the virus, going to work alone, while millions of people don masks as the infection travels through the population. The nurse comes to realize the patient she is tasked with taking care of, is not a run-of-the-mill case, but is a matter of life and death.

I want to make this film as a tribute to the sacrifices health care workers make for us. They are ordinary people, but they are extra-ordinary, too modest to call themselves heroes, not seeing themselves as life-saving angels. Completely altruistic, they put themselves in danger to take to care for us. They are in my eyes - Angels.

The nightmare of the pandemic continues, leaving a mark that will never be erased from our collective memory.

  • Joe Chang
    Director
  • Joe Chang
    Writer
  • Joe Chang
    Producer
  • Yang Li
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 46 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 8, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    60,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada, China
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    4k
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • New York Shorts International Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    October 29, 2021
    Official selection
  • 6th Ajayu International Animation Festival
    Puno
    Peru
    September 29, 2021
    Official selection
  • LA Shorts International Film Festival
    Los Angeles
    United States
    July 1, 2021
    Official selection
  • Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Festival
    Montreal
    Canada
    October 1, 2021
    Official selection
  • 5th Chaniartoon – International Comic & Animation Festival
    Chania
    Greece
    September 13, 2021
    Official selection
  • 25th Annual Vancouver Asian Film Festival
    Vancouver
    Canada
    November 4, 2021
    Official selection
  • Black & White Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    December 2, 2021
    Official selection
  • Liberty Film Awards
    New York
    United States
    August 15, 2021
    Honorable Mention
  • The Animattikon Project
    Paphos
    Cyprus
    September 11, 2021
    Official selection
  • The Regina International Film Festival & Awards RIFFA
    Regina
    Canada
    August 10, 2021
    Official selection
  • Oakville Film Festival 8th Edition
    Oakville
    Canada
    June 23, 2021
    Official selection
  • The Fickin International Film Festival
    Kinshasa
    Congo
    September 18, 2021
    Official selection
Director Biography - Joe Chang

Joe Chang is an award-winning Chinese-born Canadian animation director. He studied at Lu-Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, China and Tama Art University Graduate school in Tokyo, Japan and the animated short the Chinese Violin (2000) was his first animated film with the National Film Board of Canada. His most recent work is animated film I am not an Angel (2021). His animated short films won numerous awards all over the world, A Long-distance Call (2008) and The Music Box (2019) were selected for Short film Corner section of Cannes Film Festival. Pan Tian Shou (2004) was selected into Annecy, Zagreb, Ottawa and other film festivals. Currently, as an artist , animator and independent filmmaker, Joe lives in Vancouver, Canada and Hangzhou and Shanghai, China.

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