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= Caroline Leaf = "[Here the existing page describes in short her title]"... director, producer, animator, and tutor. She has produced numerous short animated films and her work has been recognized worldwide. She is best known as one of the pioneering filmmakers at the National Film Board of Canada (NFBC). She worked at the NFBC from 1972-1991. During that time, she created the sand animation and paint-on-glass animation techniques. She also tried new hands-on techniques with 70mm Imax film. Her work is often representational of Canadian culture and is narrative based. Leaf now lives in London and is a tutor at The National Film and Television School.

Biography
Caroline Leaf was born in Seattle, Washington on August 12, 1946. She lived in Boston for most of her life but would stay in Seattle with her parents and sister every summer. She later moved to Seattle alone to live with her grandparents and cousins. Leaf attended Radcliffe College for visual arts from 1964-1968. The college was affiliated with Harvard University. She had no prior familial implications to film nor was she interested in Cinema until she saw her first European film in University. Initially interested in architecture, leaf randomly enrolled in an animation class as an elective during her last year of studies. The class was taught by Derek Lamb. She could not draw but Lamb encouraged his students to focus on movement and to work under a camera. He asked everyone to bring an object to class to animate. Leaf brought beach sand and this is when she created the sand animation technique. Using this technique, she created her first film Sand, or Peter and the Wolf and was awarded a scholarship from Harvard University. After graduation, she moved to Italy for a year to draw. She then completed a Post-doctoral degree at Harvard where she pioneered Paint-on-glass animation. It is with this new technique that she produced her second animated film, Orfeo (1972). She then did a bit of freelance work and produced How Beaver Stole Fire (1972). During that time, her animation professor Derek Lamb was hired as head of the English animation department at the National Film Board of Canada. Leaf moved to Montreal, Canada to work as an animator for the NFBC in 1972. She retired from the NFBC in 1992 to pursue Documentary film work.

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Career
"[Here the existing page describes some of her first two works]" During her first year and a half working at the NFBC she lived in the Arctic. There she studied and collaborated with an Inuit artist to complete her third film, The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend (1974). In this short animation, the character’s speak Inuktitut. It was seen as representative of Canadian culture.

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Leaf worked on Two Sisters for two years as she experimented with a new technique consisting of scratching 70mm Imax film by hand. Removing the black of the film revealed colours that varied on each stock, thus making each frame unique to the other. The tone and narrative of this film was dark in theme. She also experimented with extreme camera angles. "[Here the existing page describes the awards won for the street] ''

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Animation techniques and influence
Leaf believed that “animation at the time impeded spontaneity and artistic exploration” This lead to her pioneering: Sand animation, Paint on glass, and hand etching on film stock. All of her techniques have been described as having "Fluid transitions" She used different techniques to best tell the story of each of her films. Her style is narrative based. She creates simple anecdotal and fictional stories based on literary works. Her films contain characters with relatable and complex issues. Her art reflects her often dark narrative content. She claims that she is "a storyteller first. Everything else in my animations are for the benefit of the story."

Leaf is also considered an influential Canadian and French Canadian filmmaker for her long standing service with the NFB and her representation of Canadian culture in her films. This can mainly be seen in her films The Street, The Owl who Married the Goose, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle.

Selected filmography
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Other awards

 * 1994: Norman McLaren Award
 * 1996: Life Achievement Award

Nominations

 * 1977: Academy Award for The Street