Director Jeff Chiba Stearns in attendance -Q&A will follow the screening

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After a realization at a family reunion, half-Japanese Canadian filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents’ generation.

This feature-length live action and animated documentary explores why almost 100 per cent of Japanese-Canadians are marrying interracially, the highest of any ethnicity in Canada, and how their mixed children perceive their unique multiracial identities.

The stories from four generations of a Japanese-Canadian family come to life through the use of innovative animation techniques created by some of Canada’s hottest independent animators, including Louise Johnson, Ben Meinhardt, Todd Ramsay, Kunal Sen and Jonathan Ng. ONE BIG HAPA FAMILY challenges our perceptions of purity and makes us question if we are approaching the end of multiculturalism as we know it.

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