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Anne Koizumi
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Directing
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Biography
Anne Koizumi completed her undergraduate studies in Film Production at the University of British Columbia and her Masters in Film Production at York University in 2011. In 2006, she was invited by the National Film Board of Canada to participate in Hothouse 3, an animation intensive for emerging animators, where she completed her first professional film "A Prairie Story". Her films have screened nationally and internationally at Annecy International Animation Festival, Slamdance, Animation Nation in Singapore, WNDX and the Calgary International Film Festival. In 2008, Anne was awarded the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, quoted by the Jury as being “a superb animator, a fantastic story-teller, passionate, creative and inspirational in the way she uses sophisticated imagery and sound.” Anne has taught stop-motion animation workshops at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Hospitals and Community Centres throughout Toronto, Quickdraw Animation Society in Calgary, Alberta and taught animation and documentary workshops at the National Film Board of Canada, to eventually work in the educational department of the NFB. She then made "The Yellow Wallpaper", an short animation film adaptation of the story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that was screened at multiples festivals. Her latest film, "In the Shadow of the Pines" had it world premiere at the Hot Docs international documentary film festival that was screened online in 2020 and has been acquired by CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) to be available on their streaming platform CBC Gems.

Filmography

In the Shadow of the Pines
2020-04-24

Inside the Hothouse 3
2006-01-01