Caroline Leaf

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Caroline Leaf was born in Seattle, Washington in 1946. She made her first film in 1968 at Harvard University. Sand, or Peter and the Wolf was made by dumping sand on a light box and manipulating the textures frame-by-frame.

Her second film, Orfeo (1972), 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 an Academy Award in 1976.

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" (1990) won the award for best short film at the Annecy Animated Film Festival in 1991.

She worked as an animator/director at the NFB until 1991.

In 1991 she left animation temporarily to work on documentary films.

In 2004 she contributed animation to a film about the Underground Railroad.

Caroline Leaf currently lives in London and is a tutor at The National Film and Television School.

[edit] Filmography

1969 Sand or Peter and the Wolf

1972 Orfeo

1972 How Beaver stole fire

1974 The owl who married a goose

1977 The metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa

1979 Interview

1981 Kate and Anna McGarrigle

1981 The right to refuse

1982 An equal opportunity

1983 Pies

1985 The owl and the pussycat

1986 The fox and the tiger

1986 A dog's tale

1990 Two sisters

1991 I Met a Man

1992 Bell Partout

1994 Fleay's Fauna Centre

1995 Brain Battle

1995 Radio Rock Détente

1996 Drapeau Canada

1998 Absolut Leaf

2001 Odysseus & the Olive Tree

[edit] See also

• Paint-on-glass animation
• Sand animation

[edit] External links

• Her official website
• Watch several of her animated films at the NFB website (free)
• Caroline Leaf's NFB Web page