Caroline Leaf was born on August 12,1946 and is a Canadian American filmmaker, animator, director, tutor and artist.
23 Facts About Caroline Leaf
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Caroline Leaf has produced numerous short animated films and her work has been recognized worldwide.
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Caroline Leaf is best known as one of the pioneering filmmakers at the National Film Board of Canada.
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Caroline Leaf tried new hands-on techniques with 70 mm IMAX film.
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Caroline Leaf's work is often representational of Canadian culture and is narrative-based.
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Caroline Leaf maintains a studio in London working in oils and on paper and does landscape drawing with an iPad.
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Caroline Leaf was born in Seattle, Washington and lived in Boston.
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Caroline Leaf then did freelance work from a studio in Boston and made How Beaver Stole Fire.
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Caroline Leaf worked at the NFB in the French and English animation departments until 1991.
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Caroline Leaf made nine animated and live puppet films and a documentary film during those years.
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Caroline Leaf made her first film, Sand, or Peter and the Wolf, in 1969 at Harvard University.
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Caroline Leaf's most renowned short film was The Street, which was drawn directly under the camera with a mix of paint and glycerin.
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Caroline Leaf co-directed an animated documentary film called Interview with Veronika Soul.
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Caroline Leaf worked for two years using this technique on her film Two Sisters original version called Entre Deux Soeurs.
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Caroline Leaf discovered a spontaneous and artistic hand crafted way of animating in her animation class at Harvard and developed it in her professional career, pioneering: sand and paint-on-glass animation, along with hand etching on film stock.
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Caroline Leaf used different techniques to best tell the story of each of her films which showcased her narrative-based style.
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Caroline Leaf created simple anecdotal and fictional stories based on literary works.
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Caroline Leaf's films contain characters with relatable and complex issues.
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Caroline Leaf's stories are mostly adaptations from literature and reflect her often dark narrative content.
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Caroline Leaf is considered an influential Canadian filmmaker for her long standing service with the National Film Board of Canada and her representation of Canadian culture in her films.
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Since 2000 Caroline Leaf has maintained a studio in London, England, and developed a personal style of painting in oils as well as drawings on paper.
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Caroline Leaf's work is abstract and very much guided by mark-making and a personal search to create spaces a viewer is invited to enter.
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Caroline Leaf has developed a lively landscape style of direct observation from nature and works on field trips with paper and pencil and iPad, using programs called Brushes and ProCreate.