Joe Chang

Joe Chang is an award-winning Chinese-born Canadian animation director. He studied at Lu-Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, China and Tama Art University Graduate school in Tokyo, Japan. The animated short the Chinese Violin (2000) was his first animated film with the National Film Board of Canada. His most recent work is animated short Bathtub, Birds and Chopin (2025). In 2002, he founded the animation major at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China. Currently, Joe as an artist, independent filmmaker lives in Vancouver, Canada and Shanghai, China.

2025 Bathtub, Birds and Chopin, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 13 min. 8K 2024 The Skytrain, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 8 min. 8K 2021 I am not an Angel, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 11 min. 4K 2020 Birds, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 4 min. 4K 2020 Pray, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 5 min. 4K 2019 The Music Box, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 11 min. 4K 2017 The Mandarin Garden, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 12 min. HD 2016 Rain Lotus, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 7 min. HD Animation. 2015 The Magic Train, Producer/Co-writer/Co-director/co-editor/Co-animator, 87 Min. Feature animated film. 2012 Fantasia China, Producer/Co-writer/Co-director/Co-editor/Co-animator, 45 Min. HD 2008 A Long-distance Call, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 12 min. HD 2007 Madame Zhang’s Dream, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 12 min. 2006 Ink, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 3 min. 2005 Father and Son, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 5 min 2004 Pan Tian Shou, Writer/Director/Editor/Producer/Animator, 6 min. 2000 The Chinese Violin, Writer/Director/animator, 8 min.