Arna Selznick
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Arna Selznick is a Canadian-born animation director, who is married to her working partner, writer/director John van Bruggen. Selznick and van Bruggen have a creative partnership under the name dancingmonkeys.
She is most famous for directing the successful film debut of the Care Bears in their first movie from 1985; she is hence only one of three women ever to direct an animated feature. (The other two were Lotte Reiniger, from The Adventures of Prince Achmed, and The Prince of Egypt's Brenda Chapman.)
Selznick and her husband have recently created Coolman!, which premiered in January of 2005 on the YTV network's Funpak! package.
Some of Selznick's other credits include:
- Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends (storyboard artist)
- 6teen (storyboard artist)
- Inspector Gadget (senior storyboard supervisor)
- Little Bear (director of 2nd and 3rd seasons)
- Return to Never Land (storyboard artist)
- Franklin (director on Back to School with Franklin and A.D. and LEICA director on Franklin and the Green Knight and Franklin's Magic Christmas)
- Clone High (storyboard artist)
- The King's Beard (storyboard artist)
- Skyland (storyboard artist)
