A cinematic fantasy music short set in a golden desert kingdom, following a fox princess caught between ambition, memory, and destiny.
Finalist & Official Online Screening — AI Film Competition, Bengaluru International Short Film Festival 2026, India — an Academy Award® Qualifying Festival.
🏆 Multiple international festival awards, including Best Animation, Best Short Film, and Best Director.
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Pai Chen — Director / Creator
Taiwan
Pai Chen is a Taiwanese independent filmmaker, animation director, composer, and multimedia creator, and the founder of Studio Nono.
His work brings together animation, original music, and AI-assisted visual production to create fantasy adventures, mysteries, music-driven films, and character-driven worlds. Combining cinematic imagery with digital artistry, he explores imagination, friendship, and the lasting appeal of classic genre storytelling.
His films have received awards and official selections at international festivals across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas, including official selections in the AI Film Competition at the Bengaluru International Short Film Festival—an Academy Award®-qualifying short film festival. Through a hybrid production process integrating writing, directing, composition, and emerging visual tools, he continues to develop a distinctive cinematic language for independent animation.
Its works focus on emotional presence, visual poetry, and the emergence of original IP.
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