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Oscar Coverage Consideration: Canada's Multi-Award Winning Animated Documentary “Eternal Spring (長春 ).”

The  groundbreaking feature film from Canadian filmmaker Jason Loftus  (“Ask No Questions”) is the only film up for consideration across three Oscar categories -- as Canada’s official entry into the International Feature Film category for the 2023 Oscars,  and having also qualified for both the Documentary Feature Film and Animation Feature Film categories. “Eternal Spring (長春 )”  tells a story of survival at all costs & the battle for human rights drawing comparisons to last years beloved Oscar nominee “Flee.”  We would love your Awards Coverage consideration for this powerful independent film.

“Eternal Spring (長春 )” offers a heart-pounding heist based in the need for survival and social activism addressing human rights violations. By combining present-day footage with 3D animation inspired by comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars ) art, “Eternal Spring (長春 )”  retraces this extraordinary real life event of the takeover of a Chinese TV station on its 20th anniversary, bringing to life an unprecedented story of defiance, harrowing eyewitness accounts of persecution, and an exhilarating tale of determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms. When we stand against injustice and speak up no matter the cost, we will affect the change we want to see in the world.

“Eternal Spring (長春 )” began its United States theatrical with a week-long exclusive at New York’s prestigious Film Forum (which was extended for more than four weeks due to incredible audience response),  before expanding nationwide to more than 50 markets in AMC Cinemas including: Los Angeles, Austin, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver,  Houston, Dallas, Charlotte, Detroit, Cincinnati, Chattanooga, Columbus, Hartford, Indianapolis, Jacksonville,  Kansas City, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Nashville, New York, New Haven, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Raleigh-Durham, San Diego, Tallahassee, Tampa, Baltimore, Tulsa and Washington D.C,  among others.  We recently had a screening at London Comic Con and at LA Comic Con , as well.

“Eternal Spring (長春)” is a multiple award winner, having won the Hot Docs Audience Award for best film and the Rogers  Audience Award for best Canadian film, among many others (truly they'd won at nearly every international film festival where they have screened to sold-out crowds).   This extraordinary harmony of animation & documentary has been awarded and acclaimed across Europe in its Film Festival run thus far for its groundbreaking animation – and of particular note, has been its incredible comic-book-style animation that transports the viewer into the brave and heroic world of a group of Falun Gong practitioners. “Eternal Spring (長春)”  with its story of survival at all costs & battle for human rights continues to draw powerful comparisons to beloved Oscar nominee “Flee.”

We greatly appreciate your coverage consideration. Interviews are available via zoom and in-person (dependent on travel in market). As you know film coverage/interviews from key media and reviews focused on filmmaking from dedicated film critics are a game changer for the release trajectory of an independent film. It is invaluable to help educate, entertain and reach a global audience, certainly when the films central figure, comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), who is very much the heart of the film, is currently being targeted --- harassed and having his work banned.

Scene clip and complete press materials included below for your ease of reference and private screeners available upon request. We greatly appreciate your coverage consideration as only with your coverage elevating the film and its subject can we illuminate and educate in our world. Many many thanks for your continued support of independent film!

“Eternal Spring (長春)” Scene Clip:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P1xPCGaMpJb7xQ_PJ--0pGDucobpmjOf/view?usp=sharing
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A BOLD ACT: “Mr. White” describes preparations the night that he and other Falun Gong practitioners set out to hack into the state-run television signal to counter the official narrative about their spiritual practice. (© 2022 Lofty Sky Pictures)

“Eternal Spring (長春)” Trailer Link:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QrvFbHprFpKfddNNX7ua-vhMmrmwkQSb?usp=sharing

“Eternal Spring (長春)” Press Notes Link:   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OfALFSZj993qV1arhp4fzi3mfiFvswrT?usp=sharing

“Eternal Spring (長春)” Poster Art Link:   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NU_3zmTKBh1bToVvnzEOuoqJS7COeukv?usp=sharing

“Eternal Spring (長春)” Still Art Link:   https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NISVWqVY80JlD2tIvkrCcqbH0wUS9Cz4?usp=sharing

“Eternal Spring (長春)” Logline:  Confronted with government denunciations and human rights violations against their spiritual practice, a group of Chinese activists executes a bold and perilous plan to hack into state television. 

“Eternal Spring (長春)”   Synopsis:  In March 2002, a state TV signal in China is hijacked by members of banned spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal is to counter the government narrative about their practice.

In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He arrives in North America, blaming the hijacking for worsening a violent repression. But his views are challenged when he meets the lone surviving participant to have escaped China, now living in Seoul, South Korea.

Combining present-day footage with 3D animation inspired by Daxiong’s art, Eternal Spring retraces the event on its 20th anniversary, and brings to life an unprecedented story of defiance, harrowing eyewitness accounts of persecution, and an exhilarating tale of determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms, no matter the cost.

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Where to follow the film and its journey:  www.eternalspringfilm.com