Caroline Leaf
Animator, Film director
1946 –
Who is Caroline Leaf?
Caroline Leaf is a Canadian-American filmmaker and animator.
Leaf made her first film, Sand, or Peter and the Wolf, in 1968 at Harvard University. The short was made by dumping sand on a light box and manipulating the textures frame-by-frame.
Her second film, Orfeo, had her painting directly on glass under the camera. Later that year she was invited to join the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio.
She mixed paint with glycerine to produce The Street, adapted from the short story of the same name by Mordechai Richler, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 49th Academy Awards.
From 1981 until 1986 she worked on various live action documentary films. In 1986 she produced her first animation in nearly a decade by scratching on 70mm color film and reshooting it on 35mm. "Two Sisters" won the award for best short film at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 1991. In 2004 she co-directed "Suite for freedom". It was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2004.
She worked as an animator/director at the NFB until 1991.
In 1991 she left animation temporarily to work on documentary films.
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- Born
- Aug 12, 1946
Seattle - Nationality
- United States of America
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Radcliffe College
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on July 23, 2013
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