Caroline Leaf
Biography
Caroline Leaf was born August 12, 1946 in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from Radcliffe College, Harvard University. In 1972 she was invited to join the National Film Board of Canada's animation studio in Montreal where she worked as an animator and director until 1991. Her works have received many awards at the most prestigious world film festivals, the film The Street was nominated for the Academy Award in 1977. Caroline Leaf currently lives in London and is a tutor at The National Film and Television School (NFTS) in Beaconsfield, UK.
Illustration Features
Caroline Leaf began to make animated films as a student, her first film Sand or Peter and the Wolf (1969) was made by an innovative technique of animating the beach sand onto a lightbox. She spread her love for experiment in films made in Montreal´s studio where she worked together with Co Hoedeman and created the tale of her own, The Owl Who Married a Goose (1974). Inspiration by literature has marked many of her works, first fables and tales (Inuit, Mexican and Chinese folklore), later the works by M. Richler, S. Beckett, E. lonescu, F. Kafka. Films like Interview (1979, or Two Sisters (1990) confirm her constant effort to seek and reflect on the meaning of film making. The artist has also devoted to documentary films, drawing portrays and painting.