CHINESE hand-drawn and 3D animated film, “The Dreams of Jinsha,” is one of 15 up for consideration this year at the Oscars.

    The film is about an initially selfish boy named Xiao Long who travels 3,500 years back to the Jin Sha Kingdom (in what is now Chengdu, Sichuan Province, an archeological area whose artifacts are displayed at the Jin Sha museum). Together with Princess Jin Sha and an elf he helps protect the kingdom from dark forces. The film took five years and 80 million yuan (US$11 million) to finish.

    With a large number of traditional Chinese landscapes as backdrops, the movie was shown in several international film festivals, including Cannes in May.(SD-Agencies)