Caroline Leaf
Caroline Leaf’s story telling animations are renowned for their emotional content and graphic style, closely tied to the innovative straight ahead animation techniques she developed.
Leaf began to make animated films as a student at Harvard University in Boston in 1968. She moved to Montreal at the invitation of the National Film Board of Canada where she worked as a staff animator/director for 20 years. Leaf was designer, story adaptor and/or scriptwriter for all of her films, and worked closely on the sound and editing.
Her film awards include an Academy Award Nomination for ‘The Street’, Grand Prix at Ottawa, Krakow, Melbourne and Los Angeles animation festivals, an Annie in Hollywood in 2019, and life achievement awards at Krakow and Zagreb festivals.
Today Leaf lives in London, UK, where she maintains a studio and works as a fine arts painter. She is an occasional tutor at the National Film and Television School and gives workshops for under the camera animation with sand and paint-on-glass wherever and whenever asked.