In the Shadow of the Pines (2020)

8m
Running Time

April 24, 2020
Release Date

In the Shadow of the Pines (2020)

8m
Running Time

April 24, 2020
Release Date

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In the Shadow of the Pines is an animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended. The film explores the idea of shame and how it can shape and define us while also concealing who we can truly become.

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Release Date
April 24, 2020

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Running Time
8m

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In the Shadow of the Pines is a Canadian animated short documentary film, directed by Anne Koizumi and released in 2020. An exploration of her grief around the death of her father in the early 2010s, the film centres on an imagined conversation with him about her childhood shame that he was employed as the janitor at her school, thus exposing her to her classmates as the daughter of a working class immigrant.Although Koizumi is an administrative employee of the National Film Board of Canada, she made the film independently rather than through her employer.The film was screened at numerous documentary and animation film festivals in 2020 and 2021, and was added to CBC Gem. It received an honorable mention for the Betty Youson Award for Best Canadian Short Documentary at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, won the awards for Best Narrative Short and Best Canadian Animation at the 2020 Ottawa International Animation Festival, and won the award for Best Animated Short at the 2021 San Francisco International Film Festival.The film was a Prix Iris nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards.

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