David Steward II’s Lion Forge Animation, based in St. Louis, is one of the only Black-owned animation studios in the U.S. and had its big break with this year’s Oscar-winning short Hair Love.
Peter Luo’s Starlight Media, the film arm of Starlight Culture Entertainment Group, is based in China, along with offices in Beverly Hills, and first made waves in Hollywood with its sizable stake in 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians.
Though the two companies seem to have little in common, they have teamed up for a joint picture partnership for animated shorts and feature films aimed at an international audience — overcoming distance, language barriers and cultural differences in the process.
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