Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time. Awards: BAFTA Nominated Animated Short Film 2017 Best Animated Documentary at KLIK Amsterdam 2016 Audience choice for Best Animated Documentary at LIAF 2016 Jury Award for Best Short Film at 10th British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin 2017 RTS London Student Awards, Best Undergraduate Animation 2017 RTS National Award for best Undergraduate Animation 2017 FANtastische Award at ITFS 2017 Best Director in the Short Documentary category at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2017 Screenings: Tough premiere at Encounters 22nd Short Film and Animation Festival 21st Sept 2016 FAFF factual animation film festival London, 30th sept- 1st October 2016 Primanima, budapest, 19th-22nd October 2016 KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 25th-30th October 2016 Crystal Palace international FF Sat 29th Oct- 19th Nov 2016 Manchester animation festival 15th-17th November 2016 Grafixx 25-27th Nov 2016 Two Short Nights Film Festival 2016 LIAF 2nd-11th December 2016 Animated Dreams 16-20th Nov 2016 Animateka 5-11th Dec 2016 With the Late Night Work Club + Friends Sceenings LSFF 6-15th Jan 2017 'British Shorts' FF Berlin 12-18th Jan 2017 North American Premiere at SUNDANCE 19-29th Jan 2017 Void international FF Copenhagen 26th Jan- 4th Feb 2017 Anima 25th Feb - 5th March 2017 GLAS Animation Festival 2-5th March 2017 SXSW 10- 19th March 2017 Tricky Women 15-19th March 2017 Monstra 16-26th March 2017 Holland Animation Film Festival 22nd-26th March 2017 Ciné Court Anime 20-26th March 2017 DIFF, 30th March- 9th April 2017 LA Asian Pacific FF, 27th April- 4th May 2017 Anifilm, Czech Republic 2nd-7th May 2017 ITFS, 2-7th May 2017 Pictoplasma, 10-14th May 2017 The Chicago critics FF, 12th-18th May 2017 Cardiff Animation Nights 25th May 2017 Telluride Mountainfilm 26th-29th May 2017 Kortfilm Festivalen, Norway, 14th-18th June 2017 VIS, Vienna Shorts, 1-6th June 2017 SUNDANCE London 1st- 4th June 2017 Animafest Zagreb, 5th-10th June 2017 Sheffield Doc Fest, 8th-14th June 2017 Annecy, 12th-17th June 2017 Short Sighted Cinema: Shortest Nights screening 18th June 2017 Edinburgh International Film Festival, 21st June- 2nd July 2017 La Guarimba International FF 7th-11th August 2017 My 2016 graduation film from Kingston University London. Original score by K. Preston Merkley For more gifs showing the process behind making the film look at my website here: jenniferzheng.co.uk/Selected-Work/Tough-1 With an original score by K. Preston Merkley www.oceancitydefender.com/

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