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Mixed Match
''Mixed Match'' is a 2016 animated/live-action documentary film directed by Canadian director Jeff Chiba Stearns. The documentary explores the challenges multi-ethnic blood disease patients face when trying to find a bone marrow match for Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, transplant. Awards and nominations Awards *2016 Audience Choice Award, Best Overall Feature: 20th Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival *2016 National Bank People's Choice Award, Best Overall Feature: 20th Vancouver Asian Film Festival *2016 Runner-up - Audience Award: 17th San Diego Asian Film Festival *2017 Best of the Northwest Feature Award: 19th Spokane International Film Festival *2017 Audience Award - Documentary: 35th CAAMFest *2017 Audience Award – North American Documentary Feature: 33rd Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival *2017 Grand Jury Award - Best Documentary Feature Film: 13th Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival *2017 Audience Award – Documentary & Speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Chiba Stearns
Jeff Chiba Stearns is a Canadian independent animation and documentary filmmaker who works in traditional and computer-based techniques. Biography Chiba Stearns was born in Kelowna, British Columbia, of European and Japanese heritage. He is a distant cousin of renowned historian Sir Peter Stearns. After graduating from the Emily Carr Institute with a Bachelor of Media Arts majoring in Film animation, he went on to obtain a Bachelor of Education from University of British Columbia. Filmmaking In 2001, Chiba Stearns founded Meditating Bunny Studio Inc., now based in Vancouver and formally in Kelowna. His short animated films, ''The Horror of Kindergarten'' (2001) and ''Kip and Kyle'' (2000) were screened at film festivals and were bought and aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for their show ZeD. His 2005 autobiographical animated short, ''What Are You Anyway?'' was created on a pre-license fee from the CBC and explores issues of growing up half-Japanese and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |