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Elliot Cowan was born in Melbourne, Australia then moved to the wilds of Tasmania where he directed thousands of television commercials for regional television. In 2006 he left for London where he mostly worked with UIi Meyer animation. While in London he began animating the Boxhead and Roundhead shorts. Now he lives in New York with all kinds of grown up stuff like a wife and child and a green card. When he's not animating, he's bullying students into animating. Currently he's directing the Boxhead and Roundhead feature.


Ged Haney
Ged Haney was born in England in 1958. He first became involved with animation in the early eighties when he composed the soundtracks for a couple of animated shorts. He then thought, 'Hey, that looks like fun, I'll have a go myself.' Seven years later, limping and bloodied, he finished his first film, The Kings Of Siam, and came to the conclusion that it really wasn't a great deal of fun after all. It was too late, however. Animation is a cruel jailer, and he found himself engulfed for all eternity in a swirling maelstrom of gigantic noses, bouncy walk cycles, and over sensitive crap about old men fondly looking back at their lives. Since 1996 he has worked extensively with Studio Filmbilder in Stuttgart. In 2010 he made Milk, Milk, Lemonade, quite possibly the most unpopular animated film of all time, and quite right too.

Fran Krause
Fran Krause was born in Utica, New York. In 1999, while earning a masters at the Rhode Island School of Design, he made the award-winning Mister Smile.  After graduating, he started working at Nickelodeon on Blue's Clues (2000).  Living for ten years in New York, he worked as a freelance animator, animating for Saturday Night Live, and working on projects such as Little Einsteins (2005-06) and SuperJail (2008).  Collaborating with his brother Will, he made two pilots for Cartoon Network: Utica Cartoon (2001) and The Upstate Four (2007). His recent films include Nosy Bear (2011), Dog in Burning Building (2010), and Moonraker (2005). He is the director and show-runner for the animated series Superf*ckers. He currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches in the Character Animation Program at the California Institute of the Arts.


Michèle Lemieux
Michèle Lemieux is graduate of the School of Visual Arts at Université Laval in Quebec City. She entered the world of illustration in the late 1970s. She spent five years working in Germany before returning to Montreal, where she has taught at UQAM’s design school since 1990. Her children’s books have been translated into some 20 languages and garnered numerous awards, including the Bologna Ragazzi Award (for "Stormy Night", 1997), one of the highest international honours for children’s literature.

She turned her hand to animation with an adaptation of her book into the short Stormy Night (2003), which has won a dozen awards, including the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

In 2008, she returned to filmmaking after encountering the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen at an NFB workshop led by Jacques Drouin, which led her to embark on her second animated film, Here and the Great Elsewhere.

Megan Turnbull
Megan Turnbull is a Winnipeg bred Montreal based artist, writer, and director. She has created paper worlds for her films Evolucity, Frolic, and the National Film Board stereoscopic 3D film Unlaced-Délacé. She orchestrates COmotion, a collaborative stop-motion project. Her work has been screened across Canada and internationally. It has been broadcast through CBC, enRoute AirCanada, The National Screen Institute, and The National Arts Centre of Canada. Her diverse creative style also lends itself to contracting in the advertising world. Prior to her work in film and animation, Turnbull worked in Hong Kong as an Assistant Landscape Architect. Turnbull’s work explores the evolving relationship between memories, time and place.

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