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The valley grad is now and
a Cademy Award nominee R.

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And Christina chatted with him about the
big honor I was shot Oh and I thought that

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it that I was like oh my gosh well Bonzi
Valley grad Andrew chess worth was

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certainly surprised to hear his animated
short film was nominated for an Academy

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Award so I grew up it was the end
of a very international. Community

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a strange and I going up with Asian American
and. Expanding all the time that there

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are songs in around their
families that want

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a lot of other perspectives I had like
a character a loadout and once. In

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a Chinese character in the United States
throughout the seven minute film pursues

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her dream of being an astronaut it was

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a metaphor for chess where it's career after
graduating from two thousand and three

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he animated for Disney and now
for Tyco studios story it's

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a love letter to all who chase impossible
train you know and don't give up on it as

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well as the people who support them along
the way through love and generosity he

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drew on those experiences in his own life
and those of his high school friends one

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CO directing and writing one small step and
I think because the family represented

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in the story is Chinese American it's
celebrating an identity that's not often

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shown in an animated film and I think
it's really important for people to see

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themselves on the screen in

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a way that isn't normally the full trailer
for one small step can be viewed on

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Tycho studio's Web site reporting for
Naperville news seventeen I'm Christine Lena

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. You can see one small step takes home

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a win at the Academy Awards and
February twenty fourth and A.B.C. .