And you thought your family was mixed up.

After a realization at a family reunion, half Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns, embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married inter-racially after his grandparents' generation. This feature live action and animated documentary explores why almost 100% of all Japanese-Canadians are marrying inter-racially, the highest out of any other ethnicity in Canada, and how their children perceive their unique multiracial identities. One Big Hapa Family challenges our perceptions of purity and makes us question if mixing is the end of multiculturalism as we know it.—Jeff Chiba Stearns

Born in the late 1970s in Kelowna in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, Jeff Chiba Stearns examines something that he didn't really notice in his growing up period specifically about the "Chiba" side of his family (really in combination with the Koga side of his family): why, starting with his parents' generation, there has been such a preponderance not only in his family but with the ethnic Japanese population in Canada as a whole of interracial marriages, something that did not seem to be occurring in other Asian ethnic groups in Canada, such as the Chinese or South Asians, at this time. Beyond trying to discover the reasons for the phenomenon, he speaks to members of his extended family from four different generations about their perceptions about being not only hyphenated Canadians, but hyphenated Japanese. With specifically the generation following his, he further examines what is the further dilution of the Japanese culture in North America, which is expected to continue in generations to come. This examination has at its core a want for some sort of easily identifiable identity, not only for self, but in identity often being mentioned or required in society, even by the government.—Huggo