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For over a decade I have been directing and animating short films and commercials in a variety of techniques including drawing, stop-motion, 2D computer and other mixed-media. Most of that has happened at Head Gear Animation.
My films have screened internationally and won various awards. I have lectured about my work in Taiwan, Korea, New York and Vancouver.
For more details, download my CV or contact me.

Awards and Presentations

  • 2009 Received OAC and TAC grants for short film “Second Hand”
  • 2008 “MTV Fresh“ wins Gold Broadcast Design Award (BDA) - Art Direction and Design category; wins Art Director's Club Merit Award
  • 2007 “Puffing Away” wins Grand Prix award for at the 11th Energy Film Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland; wins Children's Award at the 16th Environmental Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2007 Guest speaker at the Canadian Animation Seminar in Taipei, Taiwan. Hosted by the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei, I presented a lecture on “Mixed media in animation” and screened films at the Taipei Animation Film Festival.
  • 2007 NY Festivals Gold and Bronze awards, OneShow Design Bronze award, and BDA Bronze award for MTV Canada IDs
  • 2006 BDA Silver award for Naturegg “Hearing”
  • 2005 Visiting lecturing artist at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design
  • 2004 Silver award at Worldfest for “YTV: Snoozer”, Houston
  • 2003 BDA Potluck award for Sesame Workshop “Up and Down”
  • 2000 Teletoon scholarship award finalist, category: most promising student
  • 1999 Student representative at animation conference and trade mission, San Francisco
  • 1998 Recipient of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design’s media scholarship

Screenings and Exhibition of Animated Films

  • “Puffing Away”
    Tokyo EarthVision Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan
    Museum of National Science, Torino and Trento, Italy (Climate change exhibition)
    Sapporo Short Film Fest, Sapporo, Japan
    Cineposible, Caceres, Spain
    Video Green Film Forum, Rome, Italy
    Expotoons/Greenpeace Film Festival, Argentina
    EcoFocus Film Festival, Athens, USA
    Energie Film Festival, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Festival Internacional do Cinema Ambiental (FICA), Goias, Brazil
    Annnecy Animation Festival, Annecy, France
    Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart, Germany
    Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal QC
    Taiwan International Animation Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
    Canadian Animation Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
    Encounters, Bristol, UK
    Berlin Interfilm, Berlin, Germany
    Ecovision, Palermo, Italy
    Kinder FilmFest, Kyoto, Japan
    Cortoons, Rome, Italy
    Muri Cine Ambiental, Rio di Janeiro, Brazil
    Green Film Fest, Seoul, Korea
    Rica-Wissembourg Film Festival, Wissembourg, Germany
    Animateka, Ljubljana, Slovenia
    BiancoFilm Festival, Perugia, Italy
    St. Louis International Film Festival, St. Louis, USA
    Cinefeuille, Gaillac, France
    Kids for Kids Animation Festival, Kyoto, Japan
    “Canadian Shorts ” screening, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montreal, Canada
    “Charming Beasts” screening, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
    ''Projet Subject” Touring screening series, various cinemas in France
    Cambridge University Press, film presented as a visual teaching aid
    Green.TV, Environmental film website, London, UK
    Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada
    Planet in Focus, Toronto, Canada
    Festival International de Films d’Environnement (FIFE), Paris, France
    Cinemambiente, Turin, Italy
    Stash DVD Magazine, Canada
  • Milk Dots
    Anifest, Czech Republic
    Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada
    Anima Mundi, Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil
    SICAF, Seoul, Korea
    Bessies, Toronto Canada (finalist)
    Holland Animated Film Festival, Uttrecht, Netherlands
  • “MTV Fresh” and MTV Canada Idents
    Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart, Germany
    Holland Animated Film Festival, Uttrecht, Netherlands
    BDA Awards
    New York Festivals
    One Show Design Awards
    Anifest, Czech Republic
    Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada
    Anima Mundi, Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil
  • Naturegg “Hearing”
    Holland Animated Film Festival, Uttrecht, Netherlands
    BDA Awards
  • YTV “Snoozer” and “3 Hairy Thumbs Up”
    Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada
    Holland Animated Film Festival, Uttrecht, Netherlands
    Anima Mundi, Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil
    Worldfest Houston, USA
  • Sesame Workshop Films “Umbrella”, “Up and Down”, “Weather Window”
    Holland Animated Film Festival, Uttrecht, Netherlands
    Big Cartoons Animation Festival, Moscow, Russia
    Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada
    SICAF, Seoul, Korea
    Anima Mundi, Rio Di Janeiro, Brazil
    Florida KidFlix Film Festival, Tampa, USA
    Hot Springs Film Festival, Arkansas, USA
    BDA awards
  • “The Nestling”
    New York Film Anthology NewFilmmakers’ Festival, New York, USA
    Vancouver Effects and Animation Festival, Vancouver, BC