Filmmaker Jason Loftus’s animated documentary “Eternal Spring” took two top awards following its North American premiere screening at the Hot Docs 2022 festival earlier this month.
Having already won double prizes at its world premiere at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival in March, the film’s success and impact on audiences is a testament to Loftus’s unwavering resolve to continue production despite facing threats and intimidation from Chinese authorities while making the film.
With the film’s U.S. premiere screening coming up at the New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival on May 23 and May 24, as well as screenings at five other festivals across the United States over the next four weeks (see dates below), we reached out to Loftus for a Q&A to find out more about his motivation behind the film, the interference he encountered while producing it, and audience responses so far during the film’s first few festival screenings around the globe….