Angela Lao’s recent work and most awarded animation, “Andrew’s Parallel Worlds” won the Best Animation Feature Award from Hong Kong Indie Film Festival. She describes this is another top of her hills. 
 
“Andrew’s Parallel Worlds” is a musical adventure series which begins in the years of the pandemic outbreak. It talks about the boy Andrew starts world-travel with his girlfriend Cloud after their ten years of Evilvirus quarantine. “EV will last for two to ten years.” The reporter in the animation said. Angela spent her time mainly in animating during the covid-period. She wishes to succeed in every single step of her dreams and career. 
 
From 2020 till 2023 March, Andrew received 110 awards, selections and screenings from United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, China, Hong Kong and Macao. Angela explains that these all came out with a perseverance mind. She keeps going to fulfill her goals, no matter how hard it is. 
 
“People hate COVID, but I’m blessed that it helped me.” Angela says she has health difficulties and she’s hard to travel frequently. She used to let her awards shipped back from overseas. People never understand her. “Why can’t you just go walking on the red carpet?” “We invited you and you said yes, but now you’re not coming. We have already booked some interviews for you.” Words blaming were surrounded in the past years. She’s glad that COVID let people got used to have meetings and ceremonies online, even though this technology has been invented for decades. 
 
“Apart from award-shipping, animating alone is tough, too. I can do all the parts in a movie.” Angela can dub different voices including men’s and women’s, she can write music too. She told the truth that hiring people is difficult because people here aren’t impressed by film industry. Some of the actors Angela hired worked irresponsibly. Luckily, she had her mum and family to help, that made her finished her first animation feature in 2013, The Stories of Dream Village. Now, she trains herself to work independently so that this can save time. 
 
Angela thinks people in Macao still need to improve their ways of judge in creative industries. “People here are concerning the skills and techniques of the work more than considering the artwork itself is artistic or not.” She disappoints. She believes that people here of the next generations will change starts from a better education environment. 
 
She used to self-sponsor all fees in her creative life because she thinks it’s really inefficient and troublesome to apply for the government’s sponsorship. They need one to apply everything before the work is started to be done. No one can apply for sponsorship after any work is done. Also, the application forms are complicated which doesn’t accept English application as well. This is very difficult for Angela. She says, “I love to create some stories about the current news, like COVID-19, the Olympics or even Delta, etc.. If I start to do it only the sponsorship application is done, my work will always out-dated. It’s why there are not many update themes in Macao’s works. I planned to join the Oscars, but it needs a huge amount of fees, I asked the government for the sponsor but they replied me that everything needs to be done before that and the applications for 2021 is full. I am hard to type Traditional Chinese for those application forms too! Then I decided to sponsor myself again.” 
 
Creating works is a hard work, but Angela never regrets. She never gives up. She believes one day her Oscar dream and other dreams will fulfill. 
 
The first episode of Andrew’s Parallel Worlds, Desireland, Multiverse won the best animation diamond award of LA Shorts Awards last April. 
 
Angela’s intro: 
Angela Lao is an international multi-awarded animator. She is the founder of Angels Sky. She is a multi-talent of animating, comic writing, visual arts, filming, music composing, general design, poetry and story writing. She has published 120 publications mainly written and dubbed in English and received 200 awards (till 2023). Her story books, text-books and films are well-known over the World. Her animations won quite a lot of International awards.  She has been on TV and news frequently and held several Exhibitions. She loves Art and English very much so that she is applying them to many things she is doing. Her biggest dream is to win Oscar Animation Award. She hopes she can fulfill it in this life.
 
Working Experience:
2022-now Crafter & Business Owner, Anwa Clay & Angels Create Sky
2021-now News Reporter, Angels Sky
2007-now Business Owner, Movie Director, Channel Producer, Teacher, Artist and Creator, Angels Sky
2011-now Artist, Sun Never Left & 10 Fantasia
 
Educational Background:
2016 Filming, YouTube Creator Academy 
2012 Bachelor of Arts in Design, Macao Polytechnic Institute 
2009 Diploma of Arts in Design, Macao Polytechnic Institute