Christine Panushka
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Christine Panushka is an independent filmmaker, freelance animator, and teacher. She currently teaches the history of animation, as well was serving as the dean of the Division of Animation and Digital Arts at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
She received her MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 1982.During her studies at CalArts, she was mentored under Jules Engel.She was a teaching assistant with Engel in a class called "The Aesthetics of Experimental Animation", which was offered for the first and only time. She and her classmates were expanding on the scholarly writing of the topic of experimental animation, which little was written about, even before the work of the world-renowned scholar, William Moritz.In the late 90's, she was also associate director of that same program. She has also taught animation to talented high school students at California State Summer School for the Arts.
Her film work includes Nighttime Fears and Fantasies: A Bedtime Tale for a Young Girl and The Sum of Them. She is also the creator of the award-winning website Absolut Vodka, which featured artwork by Priit Pärn, Jules Engel, Kihachiro Kawamoto, Ruth Hayes, The DeNoojiers and others, during its premiere.
