Caroline Leaf
Caroline Leaf ( born August 12, 1946 in Seattle ) is an American- Canadian animator and painter who lives and works in London.
Life
Leaf studied from 1964 to 1968 painting at Radcliffe College and was founded in 1969 by a teacher to Derek Lamb recommended, who taught at the far located Harvard University. In its course it created until 1969 their debut film, the sand animation sand or Peter and the Wolf. In their next animated film Orfeo Leaf experimented for the first time with paint directly on glass.
She received in 1972 a position at the National Film Board of Canada ( English Department) and moved to Montreal. Her first film at the NFB in 1974 The Owl Who Married a Goose, which is based on a legend of the Inuit and appeared as part of the series An Eskimo Legend. The film has won several awards and received, among other things, a BAFTA nomination. Her second film, The Street ( 1976) was created as an oil - on-glass animation. The based on a short story by Mordecai Richler film about the death of a grandmother from the perspective of her grandson in 1977, nominated for an Oscar for best animated short film. Leafs works have been realized in a variety of animation techniques, as was her short film Two Sisters (1990 ) by the drawings etched directly on the film strip, while the Kafka - The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa interpretation was animated again in the sand. In addition to her work as an animation filmmaker Leaf has also created a few commercials for Pascal Blais Productions.
Leaf left the NFB in 1991 and turned then, among others, to painting. Leaf was from 1996 to 1998 professor of animation at Harvard. In 2001 she moved to London and taught from 2005 to 2009 Animation at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield, near London.