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Caroline Leaf
Caroline Leaf (born August 12, 1946 in Seattle, Washington) is a Canadian-American filmmaker, animator, director, tutor and artist. She has produced numerous short animated films and her work has been recognized worldwide. She is best known as one of the pioneering filmmakers at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). She worked at the NFB from 1972 to 1991. During that time, she created the sand animation and paint-on-glass animation techniques. She also tried new hands-on techniques with 70mm IMAX film. Her work is often representational of Canadian culture and is narrative based. Leaf now lives in London UK and is a tutor at The National Film and Television School. She maintains a studio in London working in oils and on paper and does landscape drawing with iPad. Biography and early work Leaf was born in Seattle, Washington and lived in Boston. She attended Radcliffe College, Harvard University, and majored in Architectural Sciences from 1964-1968. for visual arts fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 makes it one of the nation's fastest-growing large cities. Seattle is situated on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an inlet of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington. It is the northernmost major city in the United States, located about south of the Canadian border. A major gateway for trade with East Asia, Seattle is the fourth-largest port in North America in terms of container handling . The Seattle area was inhabited by Native Americans for at least 4,000 years before the first permanent European settlers. Arthur A. Denny and his group of travelers, subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Lamb
Derek Reginald Lamb (20 June 1936 – 5 November 2005) was a British animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as executive producer of the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-winner '' Special Delivery'', directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay, and produced and scripted Eugene Fedorenko's '' Every Child''. He also created numerous animated sketches for ''Sesame Street'', sometimes in collaboration with John Canemaker. In 1983, he and a former wife, animator Janet Perlman, formed an independent production company. Among their productions was the ''Sports Cartoons'' series, which aired on Nickelodeon in the United States. Lamb and Fedorenko collaborated on the first animation sequences for an IMAX film, ''Skyward'', first presented at Expo '85 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. With Fedorenko and Perlman, Lamb created the animated title sequence of the PBS series ''Mystery!'' based on the art of Edward Gorey, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate And Anna McGarrigle
Kate McGarrigle (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010) and Anna McGarrigle (born December 4, 1944) were a duo of Canadian singer-songwriters (and sisters) from Quebec, who performed until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010. Music career In the 1960s, in Montreal, while Kate was studying engineering at McGill University and Anna art at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, they began performing in public and writing their own songs. From 1963 to 1967 they teamed up with Jack Nissenson and Peter Weldon to form the folk group Mountain City Four. Their songs have been covered by a variety of artists including Linda Ronstadt,"McGarrigle sisters writing a memoir". ''Toronto Daily Star'', April 14, 2014, E2. Emmylou Harris, Judy Collins, and others. These covers led to the McGarrigles getting their first recording contract in 1974. They released their eponymous debut album in 1976, and created nine more albums through 2008. Although associated with Quebec's anglopho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paint On Glass
Paint-on-glass animation is a technique for making animated films by manipulating slow-drying oil paints on sheets of glass. Gouache mixed with glycerine is sometimes used instead. The best-known practitioner of the technique is Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov; he has used it in seven films, all of which have won awards. Animators/films * Agamurad Amanov (Агамурад Аманов) **''Tuzik'' (Тузик) (2001) **''Childhood's Autumn'', ''Осень детства'' (Osen detstva) (2005) (with Yekatirina Boykova) * Martine Chartrand **'' Black Soul'' (2000) * Witold Giersz **''Little Western (Mały Western)'' (1960) **''Red and Black (Czerwone i czarne)'' (1963) **''Horse (Koń)'' (1967) **''The Stuntman (Kaskader)'' (1972) **''Fire (Pożar)'' (1975) * Aleksey Karayev (Алексей Караев) **''Welcome'', ''Добро пожаловать'' (Dobro pozhalovat) (1986) **''The Lodgers of an Old House'', ''Жильцы старого дома'' (Zhiltsy starovo doma) ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sand Animation
Sand animation is the manipulation of sand to create animation. In performance art an artist creates a series of images using sand, a process which is achieved by applying sand to a surface and then rendering images by drawing lines and figures in the sand with one's hands. A sand animation performer will often use the aid of an overhead projector or lightbox (similar to one used by photographers to view translucent films). To make an animated film, sand is moved on a backlit or frontlit piece of glass to create each frame. History Techniques of animating with sand were pioneered by Caroline Leaf when she was an undergraduate art student at Harvard University in 1968. She created her first film, ''Sand, or Peter and the Wolf'' (1968), by dumping beach sand on a light box and manipulating the grains to build figures, textures and movement, frame by frame. In the 1970s, Eli Noyes, another Harvard graduate, created the short film ''Sandman'' (1973) and the ''Sand Alphabet'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. The network was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees. The enslaved persons who risked escape and those who aided them are also collectively referred to as the "Underground Railroad". Various other routes led to Mexico, where slavery had been abolished, and to islands in the Caribbean that were not part of the slave trade. An earlier escape route running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession (except 1763–1783), existed from the late 17th century until approximately 1790. However, the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad began in the late 18th century. It ran north and grew steadily until the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln.Vox, Lisa"Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annecy International Animated Film Festival
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (french: Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy, officially abbreviated in English as the Annecy Festival, or simply Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town of Annecy, France. Initially occurring every two years, the festival became an annual event in 1998. It is one of the four international animated film festivals sponsored by the International Animated Film Association (french: Association internationale du film d'animation, or ASIFA). The festival is a competition between animated films of various techniques ( traditional, cut-outs, claymation, 3DCG, etc.) classified in various categories: * Feature films * Short films * Films produced for television and advertising * Student films * Films made for the internet (since 2002) * Feature films contrechamp in competition (since 2007) Throughout the festival, in addition to the competing films projected in various cinemas of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Sisters (animated Short)
''Two Sisters'' (Original title: ''Entre deux soeurs'') is a 1991 animated short by Caroline Leaf, and produced for the National Film Board of Canada by Robert Forget, Yves Leduc, Dagmar Teufel and Jacques Vallée. The film tells the story of two sisters who live a self-contained existence until the arrival of a stranger throws their ordered life into chaos. It took Leaf a year and half to make the film. Plot Viola, a writer with a severely deformed face, lives on an isolated island with her sister Marie. Viola spends her time in a darkened room writing, while Marie cares for her. Uninvited, an unknown man swims to their house and walks in. Both sisters, frightened and confused, call out for each other. The man explains that he has come to see Viola Gé. He shows them both a copy of one of Viola's works. Viola walks up to the man, while covering her deformed face with her hand. She takes her hand away from her face and says to him: "this is Viola Gé." The man tells Viola that h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
49th Academy Awards
The 49th Academy Awards were presented Monday, March 28, 1977, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The ceremonies were presided over by Richard Pryor, Ellen Burstyn, Jane Fonda, and Warren Beatty. ''Network'' and '' All the President's Men'' were the two biggest winners of the ceremony with four Oscars each, but Best Picture and Best Director, as well as Best Editing, were won by ''Rocky''. ''Network'' became the second and, to date, last film (after ''A Streetcar Named Desire'') to win three acting Oscars, and the last, as of the 94th Academy Awards, to receive five acting nominations. It was also the eleventh of fifteen films (to date) to receive nominations in all four acting categories. Best Actor winner Peter Finch became the first posthumous acting winner, having suffered a fatal heart attack in mid-January. With only five minutes and two seconds of screentime, Beatrice Straight set a record for the shortest performance ever to win an acting O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Award For Best Animated Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year 1931–32, to the present. From 1932 until 1970, the category was known as Short Subjects, Cartoons; and from 1971 to 1973 as Short Subjects, Animated Films. The present title began with the 46th Awards in 1974. During the first 5 decades of the award's existence, awards were presented to the producers of the shorts. Current Academy rules, however, call for the award to be presented to "the individual person most directly responsible for the concept and the creative execution of the film." Moreover, " the event that more than one individual has been directly and importantly involved in creative decisions, a second statuette may be awarded." Only American films were nominated for the award until the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mordechai Richler
Mordecai Richler (January 27, 1931 – July 3, 2001) was a Canadian writer. His best known works are '' The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz'' (1959) and '' Barney's Version'' (1997). His 1970 novel '' St. Urbain's Horseman'' and 1989 novel ''Solomon Gursky Was Here''. He is also well known for the '' Jacob Two-Two'' fantasy series for children. In addition to his fiction, Richler wrote numerous essays about the Jewish community in Canada, and about Canadian and Quebec nationalism. Richler's '' Oh Canada! Oh Quebec!'' (1992), a collection of essays about nationalism and anti-Semitism, generated considerable controversy. Biography Early life and education The son of Lily (née Rosenberg) and Moses Isaac Richler, a scrap metal dealer, Richler was born on January 27, 1931, in Montreal, Quebec, and raised on St. Urbain Street in that city's Mile End area. He learned English, French and Yiddish, and graduated from Baron Byng High School. Richler enrolled in Sir George Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
