Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio director Jiao Yesong passed away at 10:52 a.m. on January 27, 2020 at the age of 91.
The official network platform of Shanghai Meiying Released news today: a member of the Communist Party of China, a director of Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio, a second-level animation designer, a member of the China Film Association and the Shanghai Film Association, and a retired cadre, Comrade Jiao Yesong, unfortunately died at 10:52 a.m. on January 27, 2020 due to ineffective medical treatment. Due to the special period, after consulting with the family, it was decided to postpone the announcement.
Born in August 1929 in Jixian County, Heilongjiang Province, Jiao Yesong was the creative backbone of the East Shadow Southward Moving Film Group. He has made important contributions to the creation of American animation films and the cultivation of young animation talents. He has served as the animation designer of "Little Carp Jumping Dragon Gate", "Little Tadpole Finds Mother", "Mudi", "Prairie Hero Little Sister", "Trumpeter" and other films, the director of "Little White Pigeon", "The Adventure of Petite", "Tiger Learning Art", and one of the screenwriters of "Petite Adventure". He is good at salvaging stories and knowledge from the perspective of children, so his works are full of childlike fun and full of educational significance.
In his later years, Jiao Yesong still cared about the cause of animation, not only donating the animation manuscripts he had kept for decades to the Meiyi Film Studio for the study of the Chinese animation school, but also said that "if the body is better, it is better to work for a few more years." In his career, he not only devoted a lot of energy to the artistic creation of the film studio, but also selflessly passed on his rich creative experience to the younger generations of young people, and his contribution to the development of Chinese art films will forever be recorded in history.