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While we're still basking in the four Oscars won by the South Korean film Parasite, we want to bring your attention to another film by an AAPI filmmaker.
Kitbull, directed by Malaysian American Rosana Sullivan and produced by Kathryn Hendrickson, reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between a fiercely independent stray kitten and an abused pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time.
Beginning her journey with Pixar eight years ago, as a storyboard artist on The Good Dinosaur, Sullivan made her directorial debut this year with Kitbull, which was among the nominees for the Motion Picture Academy’s Best Animated Short Film.
Kitbull emerged from Sullivan’s desire to capture animals in animation, the way that they actually are. “I love cat videos, as we all do, and I just wanted to draw a kitten being a kitten, because I never saw that done in animation, at least not often. Usually, they’re anthropomorphized, and I just wanted to capture the spirit of a real kitten,” the director tells Deadline.
“It then evolved into something about connection and friendship between two outcast characters, because that was something that I had struggled with as a kid. Just that feeling when you don’t feel connected to the larger world.”
The eventual winner in the Animated Short Film category was Hair Love, about an African American father learning to do his daughter's hair for the first time.
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| Pixar's Rosana Sullivan's film was nominated for an Oscar. |
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