Oscar-Qualified 'Dragonfly' Animated Short Now Streaming on Omeleto
Julia Morizawa’s 2D film explores intergenerational memory through her family’s harrowing story of surviving the 1945 Tokyo Firebombing.
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Oscar-Qualified ‘Dragonfly’ Recounts the Devastating 1945 Tokyo Firebombing
For filmmaker Julia Morizawa, learning about her grandparents she’d only seen in a black and white photo meant coming face-to-face with the horrors of the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, and how asking questions and confronting the past is the only way to keep tragic events from being lost to history and possibly happening again.
Julia Morizawa’s ‘Dragonfly’ to Premiere at 39th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
The short, part of the festival’s May 7 ‘Lost and Found’ animation program, tells a young girl’s story of discovering her mother’s survival of the 1945 Tokyo Firebombing.
