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Films

2026 Invisible Harvests — direction, animation

2010 Krampusnacht, the Quietest — direction, animation (gallery screening only)

2010 Little Theatres: Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage — direction, animation

Selected Festival Screenings

Invisible Harvests

2026 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France — Official Short Films Competition

Little Theatres: Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage

Presented at over 50 film and animation festivals worldwide, 2011–2015, including:

2011 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France — Official Short Films Competition

2011 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Canada — Short Cuts

2011 Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF), South Korea

2011 DOK Leipzig, Germany

2011 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal, Canada

2011 Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden

2011 Les Sommets du cinéma d'animation de Montréal, Canada

2012 Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI), Canada

2012 Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin

Grants & Awards

2017 Canadian Screen Award Nomination — CBC's X Company Animated

2014 Canada Council for the Arts: Research/Creation Grant, Film & Video Emerging Artist — Invisible Harvests

2014 Ontario Arts Council: Media Artists, Emerging — Invisible Harvests

2014 Toronto Arts Council: Media Artists, Emerging — Invisible Harvests

2011 Canada Arts Council: Travel Grant — Little Theatres

2011 Jameson iFestival Award, Stockholm Film Festival — Little Theatres

2010 NFB FAP Award — Little Theatres

2008 Bravo!FACT Grant — Little Theatres

2006 Broadcast Design Association (BDA) Award: Gold

2006 The Bessies, Animation Craft Award

2003 BDA Award: Gold

2002 2 BDA Awards: Bronze

2001 2 BDA Awards: Bronze

1999 Finalist, Golden Marble Award

1998 1 BDA Award: Silver, 2 BDA Awards: Bronze

1996 Dorothy Stevens Award, OCAD

1995 David W. Bain Scholarship, OCAD

Work Experience

2007–present Independent filmmaker — stop-motion animation and analogue film

2000–present freelance motion design — commercials, broadcast, and film/TV title sequences. Clients include NFB, CBC, Corus, Family Channel, Temple Street Productions, TMN, Invivo Communications

2017–2022 Senior Designer, CBC News — motion graphics & infographics for news

2013 My Prairie Home (NFB) — animator and motion designer

2012 The Defector (Fathom Film Group) — animator and motion designer

2006 Manufactured Landscapes — animator and motion designer

2016 CBC X Company Animated — stop-motion animator

1999–2000 SPIN Productions, Toronto — motion graphics designer & animator

1998 Cuppa Coffee Animation, Toronto — stop-motion animator, set builder, compositor

1996–1998 YTV Canada, Toronto — motion graphics designer & animator

Education

2003–2005 OCAD — Bachelor of Fine Arts

1993–1997 OCAD — Honours Diploma, Drawing & Painting

Memberships & Affiliations

LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto)

Jury Member, Northwest Animation Festival, Portland

Selected Press

Collins, Leah. "Meet the creators behind X Company's ingenious animations." CBC Arts, 2016.

Bonta, D. "Homenaxe ao mineral do repolo." Moving Poems, 2013.

Brown, T. "Watch Stellar Animated Short Little Theatres." Twitch, 2012.

Dudley, S. "The Making of the Independent Short Film, Teatriños." Canada and Beyond, 2012.