Animation
World Magazine, Issue 1.10, January 1997
Writers' Bios January 1997
Otto Adler is
the former director of the Stuttgart International Animation Festival,
was involved with the founding in 1995 of the Fantouche Festival, in Baden,
Switzerland, a member of the Advisory Board for the Ottawa International
Animation Festival, has served on the juries and selection committees of
numerous festivals, and is now working on a documentary film about Russian
animator Fedor Khitruk.
Giannalberto Bendazzi is a Milan-based film historian and critic
whose history of animation, Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation, is
published in the US by Indiana University Press and in the UK by John Libbey.
His other books on animation include Topoline e poi (1978), Due
voite l'oceana (1983) and Il movimento creato (1993, with Guido
Michelone).
Janet Benn was Scene Planner, Layout Checker and Retake Supervisor
on Beavis and Butt-head Do America. She has worked in animation
production for 20 years and served on the Steering Committee of the Society
for Animation Studies and has been involved in the formation of the New
York Chapter of Women in Animation. She has also officiated at ASIFA-East
and Women Make Movies, Inc.
John R. Dilworth is a New York based independent filmmaker whose
recent short animated film, The Chicken From Outer Space, was nominated
for an Academy Award.
Bruno Edera is a producer and programmer forTélévision
Suisse Romande (TSR) and an animation historian. He has published works
on a wide variety of topics, including African cinema and eroticism and
animated films.
Maureen Furniss is the Editor and Publisher of Animation Journal,
a scholarly journal based at Chapman University, in Orange, California,
where she is an Assistant Professor in the School of Film and Television.
She can be reached by email at furniss@chapman.edu. Animation Journal's
home page is http://www.chapman.edu/animation.
Tom Knott worked for the Ottawa International Animation Festival
from 1988 to 1995 and on the Second, Third and Four Los Angeles International
Animation Celebrations. He has also acted as a consultant to Colossal Pictures,
MTV, the Voyager Company and Expanded Entertainment. He currently works
for Warner Bros. Feature Animation in Los Angeles.
Mark Langer teaches film at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
He is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals and a programmer of
animation retrospectives. He can be reached by email at mlanger@ccs.carleton.ca.
Arnaud Laster, Master of Lectures in French Literature at the New
Sorbonne (University of Paris III), author of books on Victor Hugo (of
which Pleins feux sur Victor Hugo was published by the Comédie-Française)
and co-editor, with Danièle Gasiglia-Laster, of the complete works
of Jacques Prévert in the Pléiade edition. He teaches notably
the relation of cinema and music with the works of Victor Hugo, and analyzes
the screenplays and dialogues of Prévert.
Wendy Jackson is Associate Editor of Animation World Magazine.
Mark Langer teaches film at Carleton University in Ottawa Canada.
He is a frequent contributor to scholarly journals and a programmer of
animation retrospectives. He can be reached by email at mlanger@ccs.carleton.ca.
Philippe Moins created the Brussels Animation Festival in 1982,
and currently co-directs it with Doris Cleven.
Chris Robinson is Executive Director of the Ottawa International
Animation Festival and the International Student Animation Festival of
Ottawa, which will take place in September 1997. In addition to writing
articles on film and animation, Robinson organizes a bi-weekly series of
underground film screenings in Ottawa.
Annick Teninge was, for six years, the Assistant Director of the
Annecy Animation Festival.
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