Jason Loftus is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. He is most noted as director of the documentary film '' Eternal Spring'', which was selected as Canada's submission for the

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at the

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.Jackson Weaver
"Eternal Spring named Canada's submission for Oscars' best international film"

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, August 24, 2022. The CEO of Lofty Sky Entertainment, he was executive producer of the 2014 documentary film '' Human Harvest'', which was a

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recipient for Documentary Programming in 2015 and a

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nominee at the

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in 2016. ''Ask No Questions'', his debut film as a director, premiered at the

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in 2020. With film distribution in 2020 largely impeded by the

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, the film subsequently partnered with the San Francisco DocFest to screen the film in a virtual reality environment. ''Eternal Spring'', an animated documentary created in collaboration with Chinese animator and activist

Daxiong Guo Jingxiong, known as Daxiong () (born December 25, 1975), is a comic book artist, editor and publisher. In 2022, he participated in the creation of '' Eternal Spring'', a partially animated documentary film by Jason Loftus, about Falun Gong's ...

, was released in 2022. When it screened at the

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, it was named the overall winner of the Hot Docs Audience Award for most popular film in the festival, and the first-place winner of the Rogers Audience Award for the most popular Canadian film.Jennie Punter
"‘Eternal Spring’ Takes Rogers Audience and Hot Docs Audience Awards"
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'', May 9, 2022.

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