movies: Pigsy

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title	country	year	length	director	url	blurb	virtual_screening	programmer_blurb	trailer_url	language
Pigsy	Taiwan	2023	95	Li Wei Chiu	https://www.siff.net/festival/pigsy	A fast-paced, action-packed animated science fiction extravaganza that takes cues from China’s centuries-old Monkey King legends, as a streetwise pig in a bustling future metropolis makes friends and foes in his quest to stop the Bull Demon King’s evil plans.	0	Pigsy is unsatisfied with his life in Old Town, a dilapidated and overcrowded neighborhood in a futuristic Taiwan. He dreams about moving to the New World, but unfortunately for the self-absorbed pig, only the most productive members of society are selected for utopia. In a last-ditch effort to secure his and his grandmother’s future, he agrees to help a sketchy underground organization get access to the Nirvana algorithm that selects who goes to the New World. As Pigsy spies on his boss, the algorithm’s inventor, he finds himself becoming friends with the very people he must betray to get to the New World. Pigsy is based on the classic Chinese novel “Journey to the West” and is about becoming part of a community by learning to appreciate the people in your life. Director Li-Wei Chiu’s expressive animation combines 2D and 3D techniques to create a distinctly high-energy Taiwanese style with a cyberpunk twist.—Mackenzie Wardlow	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAxUMsDXh7E	Chinese