Nominated at Annie Award 2024
“Li Yang’s dinner with his colleagues is strangely interrupted when the flight of a “tomato man” leads to dark, absurd truth in the tomato restaurant’s kitchen, and the long-forgotten story of Li Yang himself.”
Director – Junyi Xiao
Junyi Xiao is an award-winning filmmaker and animation artist. His films have been selected and screened at many international animation festivals all over the word including Annecy and Hiroshima. In 2015 and 2017, his film After School and Elsewhere were nominated for two Annie Awards.
Meanwhile, as a senior animator and story artist at Buck Design, Junyi worked on lots of animation commercials and original contents. The animation commercial Creativity for All won the Wood Pencil Award at D&AD Awards, which is one of the most prestigious benchmarks for creative excellence in design and advertising. The animation music video We the People for Netflix also nominated 2 Annie Awards in 2021.
In 2021, Junyi funded Studio Reflection. The studio devotes to explore the boundary of animation and the possibilities of storytelling.