The Walk to Obon (2020)
Based on my Japanese-American childhood, the film anticipates the fleeting moments leading up to the local Obon-- a Buddhist summer festival complete with food, dance, and performance. Impatient kids, board game dice, and fruit stickers flash by to play like a memory.
DIRECTION, ANIMATION, SOUND DESIGN: Jeanette Takako Fantone
MUSIC: Mark Hadley (Hark Madley)
SOUND MIX: Bronwyn Maloney
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