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Stuff in brackets are from the original Wikipedia article and aren't mine.

= Nora Twomey = [Nora Twomey (born 31 October 1971) is an Irish animator,] director, screenwriter, producer and voice actress. [She is a partner in Cartoon Saloon, an animation studio and production company, based in Kilkenny City, Ireland.] She is best known for co-directing The Secret of Kells and directing The Breadwinner. Her work on both films earned it Academy award nominations for Best Animated Feature Film.

Early Life
[She was educated at St. Mary's High School in Midleton, Co.Cork] but left before completing the Leaving Certificate at the age of 15. She did manual labor at a local factory until she was admitted to Ballyfermot College in Dublin to their School of Animation program. She graduated in 1995.

Career
After graduating from Ballyfermot College she worked for Brown Bags Film animation studio in Dublin. In 1999, [she helped found Cartoon Saloon, along with Tomm Moore, Paul Young and Ross Murray. In 2002 she directed the award-winning short animated film From Darkness]. The film has no dialogue and is based on an Inuit folk tale where a man helps to regenerate a woman with only a skeleton for a body. [She also worked on the successful animated TV series Skunk Fu!.]

She wrote and directed the 2004 animated short Cúilín Dualach (Backwards Boy), released in 2004. It is based on a story by Jackie Mac Donacha where a boy with his head on backwards only loved by his mother has to work to gain the acceptance of the rest of his community as well as his father.

[She co-directed, with Tomm Moore, The Secret of Kells, an animated feature film.] She also did additional voice acting for the film. [The film is set in 9th century Ireland, at the time when the Book of Kells was written.] In it, a 12 year old orphan boy living at a monastery has the task of finishing a book with the art of illumination. [The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2009. The Secret of Kells has been nominated in the category of Best Animated Feature Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.]

In 2014’s Song of the Sea directed by Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey did work as the film's head of story as well as the voice director.

[She directed the animated film The Breadwinner, released in 2017.] Based on the best-selling young adult novel by Deborah Ellis, an 11 year old girl named Parvana must dress as a boy and become the titular breadwinner for her family when her father is arrested by the Taliban. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017 with a wide release in November 2017. It is the first feature-length film she has sole director credit on. During the development of The Breadwinner, she was named to Variety’s “2017 10 Animators to Watch”.

She is a member of the Academy.

Themes and Style
Nora Twomey’s films are often coming-of-age films with pre-teen protagonists dealing with mythic worlds, the importance of stories and finishing them, acceptance, family, and communities. Her films combine traditional and digital art but are often hand-drawn and in a visual style inspired by the worlds of her stories.

Accolades
She became the 7th graduate of Ballyfermot College to have been nominated for an Academy award with her work on The Breadwinner. The Breadwinner was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards.

The Breadwinner earned 10 nominations at the 45th Annie Awards, including Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production for Nora Twomey. It won the award for best animated feature for an independent film. It was the first time a sole female director directed the film that won the award.

Personal Life
Nora Twomey has two sons.

Nora Twomey
Nora Twomey is an animator, director, voice actress, and screenwriter as well as one of the founders of Ireland based animation studio Cartoon Saloon. She's had some part in three critically acclaimed films made by Cartoon Saloon: Song of the Sea, Secret of Kells and The Breadwinner playing the role of co-director, voice director, head of story, and sole director across the three films. She's also played a role in shorts and TV shows as a member of Cartoon Saloon such as Skunk Fu, and Amazon Pilot Eddie of the Realms Eternal. Her current page is pretty barebones and speaks all too briefly about the works she's actually done, her style, themes and the success of these works.

Bendazzi, Giannalberto. Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times. Boca Raton: Focal, 2016.

Coote, Lesley. “Survey of 21st 'Medieval' Film.” In Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, edited by Gail Ashton, 111. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.

Giardina, Carolyn. “Animated Film 'The Breadwinner' Aims to Show the Struggles of Females Under the Taliban Regime”, last modified January 9, 2018. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/animated-film-breadwinner-aims-show-struggles-females-under-taliban-regime-1071790

Meagher, John. “From school drop-out to Oscar-nominated animator with Cartoon Saloon - Nora Twomey”, last modified June 11, 2017. https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/from-school-dropout-to-oscarnominated-animator-with-cartoon-saloon-nora-twomey-35798523.html

Scott, Claire. “Oscar nominee reveals how her time in Ballyfermot paved the road to success” last modified January 27, 2018. https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/oscar-nominee-reveals-how-time-14201401

Candy Guard
Candy Guard is an animator, writer and director. I'll take a look at her career, focusing especially on her cult classic Pond Life as well as the shorts and she's made and her transition into becoming a novelist.

Sources:

A Reader in Animation Studies edited by Jayne Piling

Animation: A World History: Volume III: Contemporary Times by Giannalberto Bendazz

http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2016/12/09/women-in-british-animation-candy-guard/

https://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.2/articles1.2/mcgreal1.2.html

Stella Meghie
Brief wiki worth expanding

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-stella-meghie-everything-everything-20170518-story.html

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/awards-and-festivals/tiff/filmmaker-stella-meghie-could-be-a-sign-of-a-better-hollywood-to-come/article31690413/

http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/stella-meghie-jean-joneses#axzz553oOauI8

Article Evaluation
Cheryl Dunye

- Lacking citation for birth date & area born and raised in. It's mentioned in another source that comes much later so it might be worth double citing it.

- Link for Citation #6 may be dead (I couldn't access it on two browsers)

- Citation #11 brings to jstor homepage. This is a significant issue since it is used for a majority of the citations.

- Yolanda Ross has a wikipedia page that could be linked to.

- Citation #12 leads to ebscohost homepage.

- Citation #14, link to Variety article is broken.

- Citation #15, another Variety article link is broken

- Citation #16 is broken

- I would almost suggest using a table for the filmography to make it easier to see what roles she takes in each films since she appears to take multiple roles at times (Directing/Writing/Producing/Acting). A table for awards won and nominated for would not be bad either.

- I don't feel it's necessary but it seems customary to have a personal life section on these sort of 'profiles', it could be a possibility for adding more depth to it.

- It's challenging to check the validity of the sources since a lot of the ones used are broken.

- Slightly outdated. She has continued to work on films since the last noted work in there (The Owls in 2010). Checking out her website, she has worked on the 2012 release Mommy is Coming, the 2014 release Black is Blue (a short), co-directed Valencia in 2013, and released another short, Brother from Another Time in 2014.

- Not a criticism but a new book is being released "Sisters in the Life – A History of Out African American Lesbian Media-Making" that might contain worthwhile information to add on here. It's releasing in 2018 and published by Duke University Press Books.

- She directed an episode of Ava DuVernay's television drama Queen Sugar in 2017.

- Talk page makes a suggestion for a controversy section dealing with Watermelon Woman. Also suggests further reading be removed or updated since there was nothing there. It was updated.

- It is part of several WikiProjects like the Women, Actors & Filmmakers, LGBT Studies, and Africa/Liberia ones.

- I don't believe we talked much about Wikipedia biographies in class with the exception of the emphasis on personal lives that biographies of women seem to have. There isn't really any here aside from her identity as a lesbian. I mentioned adding a personal life section but really I would just move the line "She is currently an assistant professor at San Francisco State University and a mother of two children." to such a section where it might be more appropriate. I think that's all that would really NEED to be said about it.