David Kaplan Celebrates Year of the Fish

By Jessica Wall
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/directing/article/david_kaplan_year_of_the_fish_20080814/
David Kaplan’s first feature film, Year of the Fish, may be a retelling of Cinderella. But with the title character toiling away in a Chinatown massage parlor while her “stepsisters” engage in sex work, it’s a far cry from the Disney classic. The animated movie (live-action sequences were shot and then digitally painted over, giving it a look similar to Richard Linklater's Waking Life) is an updated retelling of the oldest known Cinderella story, a Chinese version recorded circa 850 A.D.