Wendy Tilby

Wendy Tilby (born March 28, 1960 in Edmonton , Canada ) is a Canadian animation filmmaker.

Life

Tilby studied fine arts and literature at the University of Victoria and then animation and film at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design , where she met Amanda Forbis . Tilby graduated in 1986 with the animation film Tables of Content , which has received numerous awards, including the Grand Prix de Montreal at the Montreal World Film Festival and the award for best film debut at the Ottawa International Animation Festival . In 1987, Tilby joined the National Film Board of Canada and directed her first NFB film, Strings . Among the numerous awards for the short animation film was an Oscar nomination in the category Best Animated Short Film .

From 1995 she and Amanda Forbis devoted herself to the first joint short animated film When the Day Breaks , which premiered in 1999. When the Day Breaks received an Oscar nomination and won the Palme d'Or in Cannes in 1999 for best short film . With Amanda Forbis, Tilby created various animated advertising films, including for United Airlines ( The Meeting , The Interview ). After the release of When the Day Breaks , Tilby and Forbis also began work on the second joint short animation film Wild Life , which continued for years. They both moved from Montreal to Calgary to work on the film. Wild Life was first performed in 2011 and, like the first collaboration, received an Oscar nomination. The film was also nominated for an Annie Award and a Genie Award .

Tilby regularly leads workshops on animation topics with Forbis. She was also a lecturer in animation at Concordia University in Montreal and was a visiting professor at Harvard University from 1999 to 2001 .

Filmography

• 1986: Tables of Content
• 1991: Strings
• 1992: The Consensus Factory - Noam Chomsky and the Media (animation only)
• 1994: Toward a Vision of a Future Society (animation only)
• 1994: Holocaust Denial vs. Freedom of Speech (animation only)
• 1994: Concision: No Time for New Ideas (animation only)
• 1994: A Propaganda Model of the Media Plus Exploring Alternative Media (animation only)
• 1994: A Case Study: Cambodia and East Timor (animation only)
• 1995: Inside Out
• 1999: When the Day Breaks
• 2011: Wild Life

Awards (selection)

• 1987: Genie Award nomination, Best Animated Short Film , for Tables of Content
• 1992: Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film for Strings
• 1992: Genie Award , Best Animated Short Film, for Strings
• 1999: Golden Palm for the best short film in Cannes for When the Day Breaks
• 1999: FIPRESCI Prize and Cristal d'Annecy at the Festival d'Animation Annecy for When the Day Breaks
• 2000: Oscar nomination for Best Animated Short Film for When the Day Breaks
• 2000: Genie Award, Best Animated Short Film, for When the Day Breaks
• 2000: Grand Prix of the Hiroshima International Animation Festival for When the Day Breaks
• 2012: Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film for Wild Life
• 2012: Genie Award nomination, Best Animated Short Film, for Wild Life
• 2012: Annie Award nomination at the Annie Awards for Wild Life

literature

• Wendy Tilby . In: Steven Subotnick: Animation in the home digital studio: creation to distribution . Focal Press 2003, pp. 8-9.
• Wendy Tilby . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, pp. 340-341.

Web links

• Wendy Tilby in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Wendy Tilby's biography on onf-nfb.gc.ca
• Wendy Tilby in the Canadian Film Encyclopedia