Samantha Leriche-Gionet has been piling up animation paper for eight years, armed with a college diploma in Traditional Animation (during which she directed her first film Fou tu in 2005) and a BFA Major in Film Animation from Concordia University that’s hot out of the oven as of 2010. She directed several animated shorts there: Lucien, Superstar (2007), completely hand-drawn with colouring pencils on paper and shot on 35mm; Le paquet (2008), her first stop-motion film; Le grand saut (2009), made with a very tight deadline of one month and a half; and Flocons et carottes (2010), her most recent and also longest film, animated on paper and coloured by computer.

 

Her films have been screened in more than thirty festivals around the world, winning prizes and mentions such as Best Script at the Proje(c)t Y Festival. She is currently living and working in Montreal, Canada.more...