2021 Asian & Asian American Showcase
Mechamorphosis
Duration: 14:02
Directed by: Bowen Tan
Directed by: Bowen Tan
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Producer: Ben Clerveaux
Co-Writer: Roderick "Five" Rascoe Editor: Cheng Chen Art Advisor: Zihan Xu |
Composer: Camilo RodrSince
Sound Designer: Ailin Gong Pipa Player: Yunxiang Gao Music Supervisor: Sharon Smith |
Synopsis
At the dawn of Chinese Robotic era, in a world where robot-human symbiosis and educational pressures collide, Yining, a young schoolboy learns to cope with the rigors of family pressure and mechanical success.
At the dawn of Chinese Robotic era, in a world where robot-human symbiosis and educational pressures collide, Yining, a young schoolboy learns to cope with the rigors of family pressure and mechanical success.
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Director:
Bowen Tan
Bowen Tan is an independent animator and director.
In the past 4 years, he finished several shorts, including Multiple Love, a live-action short, Recording, an VR comedy short, Prison Break, a stop-motion animation and some other projects. After finishing award-winning Animation, Clown, Bowen focused on his second 2D animation Mechamorphosis and spent 2 years to finish it in 2020. Mechamorphosis has been selected in Sundance Miami Short Film Intensive and also officially selected by several film festival, such as Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, Canada SPARK Animation Film Festival and Greece 5th Chaniartoon 2020. Recently, Bowen Tan is working on a feature concept called Gourmet Cat, an animation about the wandering cat in old cities, planning to put it into production in the near future.
Bowen Tan
Bowen Tan is an independent animator and director.
In the past 4 years, he finished several shorts, including Multiple Love, a live-action short, Recording, an VR comedy short, Prison Break, a stop-motion animation and some other projects. After finishing award-winning Animation, Clown, Bowen focused on his second 2D animation Mechamorphosis and spent 2 years to finish it in 2020. Mechamorphosis has been selected in Sundance Miami Short Film Intensive and also officially selected by several film festival, such as Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, Canada SPARK Animation Film Festival and Greece 5th Chaniartoon 2020. Recently, Bowen Tan is working on a feature concept called Gourmet Cat, an animation about the wandering cat in old cities, planning to put it into production in the near future.
Producer:
Ben Clerveaux
Ben Clerveaux first matriculated into Palm Beach State College Motion Picture and Television Department in 2008 in which he excelled in directing editing and cinematography. He then went on to intern in 2010 at the multiple Emmy Award winning production studio ITV of Boca Raton, Florida which he began transcribing interstitials, and episodes of the regional Emmy winning "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind" on PBS. During his time there he learned from many broadcast televisions highly regarded producers into the mechanics of post production supervision and observed the workflow of footage from the field, into the edit room, and finally into archival. Ben later received an opportunity to join IATSE Local 477, Florida's premier film and television union, gaining the opportunity to work in grip and electric departments in Miami of "Ballers", "Baywatch", and the "Gotham", and Academy Award winning picture "Moonlight".
From 2011 to 2017 Ben worked as freelance production assistant, electrician, and grip to work on a number big-budget commercials, reality television shows, and independent shorts and features that screened in local and national markets throughout South Eastern U.S. including but not limited to The Ultimate Fighter, Nike Olympics, Burn Notice, The Bachelor, The Most Expensivest and Jersey Shore Family Vacation, and gain employment working as a freelance NLE Digital Imaging Technician, Producer, and Editor.
His career led him to New York City in 2018 to further his experiences from working in South Florida, to entering one of the busiest film and television production cities in the North American continent which often featured more than 100 major budget film and television productions at a time. Ben's Credits include, "John Wick Chapter 3", "The Blacklist", Daredevil", "The Punisher", "Jessica Jones", "Law & Order SVU".
New York provided a new avenue of excellence and mastery for Ben to improve his craft as an electrician and grip by day and an independent writer and producer by night in 2019 while working on epic works such as "When They See Us" aka. (Central Park Five), "Ray Donavan", "Bull", God Friended Me", "Evil", and "Power". And began working as a cinematographer and producer for a documentary film that has since won 1st prize in both local and regional festivals, and attained full financing for his film "These Kids, This City" and co-production/distribution deal from the Tribeca Film Institute. This allowed Ben to jettison out of the majority of on-set or work-for-hire opportunities into full time independent writing and producing.
Ben began as the lead producer in the futuristic animated short entitled "Mechamorphisis" that had been in development since 2018 was brought to light in 2020, by winning a spot in the coveted 2020 Sundance Short Film Intensive. He worked alongside students and professors at the University of Miami in all aspects of creating this work and additionally played a voice-acting role in the picture. The film has since been submitted to Toronto, Houston, and Chicago film festivals respectively and is awaiting a premiere date and location from festival organizers.
In light of the epidemic of Covid-19 in New York City this past year, Ben began writing and an independent original super-hero universe that stars predominantly minority characters slated for development into a comic book series, film and television series, in the coming months which has gained attention from a major online network aggregator and is currently pending offers for distribution and financing. Ben endeavors to educate the world and particularly the next generation of student filmmakers and to help them understand that they can speak through cinema. They can be represented through cinema. And they can make change through cinema.
Ben Clerveaux
Ben Clerveaux first matriculated into Palm Beach State College Motion Picture and Television Department in 2008 in which he excelled in directing editing and cinematography. He then went on to intern in 2010 at the multiple Emmy Award winning production studio ITV of Boca Raton, Florida which he began transcribing interstitials, and episodes of the regional Emmy winning "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind" on PBS. During his time there he learned from many broadcast televisions highly regarded producers into the mechanics of post production supervision and observed the workflow of footage from the field, into the edit room, and finally into archival. Ben later received an opportunity to join IATSE Local 477, Florida's premier film and television union, gaining the opportunity to work in grip and electric departments in Miami of "Ballers", "Baywatch", and the "Gotham", and Academy Award winning picture "Moonlight".
From 2011 to 2017 Ben worked as freelance production assistant, electrician, and grip to work on a number big-budget commercials, reality television shows, and independent shorts and features that screened in local and national markets throughout South Eastern U.S. including but not limited to The Ultimate Fighter, Nike Olympics, Burn Notice, The Bachelor, The Most Expensivest and Jersey Shore Family Vacation, and gain employment working as a freelance NLE Digital Imaging Technician, Producer, and Editor.
His career led him to New York City in 2018 to further his experiences from working in South Florida, to entering one of the busiest film and television production cities in the North American continent which often featured more than 100 major budget film and television productions at a time. Ben's Credits include, "John Wick Chapter 3", "The Blacklist", Daredevil", "The Punisher", "Jessica Jones", "Law & Order SVU".
New York provided a new avenue of excellence and mastery for Ben to improve his craft as an electrician and grip by day and an independent writer and producer by night in 2019 while working on epic works such as "When They See Us" aka. (Central Park Five), "Ray Donavan", "Bull", God Friended Me", "Evil", and "Power". And began working as a cinematographer and producer for a documentary film that has since won 1st prize in both local and regional festivals, and attained full financing for his film "These Kids, This City" and co-production/distribution deal from the Tribeca Film Institute. This allowed Ben to jettison out of the majority of on-set or work-for-hire opportunities into full time independent writing and producing.
Ben began as the lead producer in the futuristic animated short entitled "Mechamorphisis" that had been in development since 2018 was brought to light in 2020, by winning a spot in the coveted 2020 Sundance Short Film Intensive. He worked alongside students and professors at the University of Miami in all aspects of creating this work and additionally played a voice-acting role in the picture. The film has since been submitted to Toronto, Houston, and Chicago film festivals respectively and is awaiting a premiere date and location from festival organizers.
In light of the epidemic of Covid-19 in New York City this past year, Ben began writing and an independent original super-hero universe that stars predominantly minority characters slated for development into a comic book series, film and television series, in the coming months which has gained attention from a major online network aggregator and is currently pending offers for distribution and financing. Ben endeavors to educate the world and particularly the next generation of student filmmakers and to help them understand that they can speak through cinema. They can be represented through cinema. And they can make change through cinema.