Anne Koizumi

História

Anne Koizumi completed her undergraduate studies in Film Production at the University of British Columbia and her Masters in Film Production at York University in 2011. In 2006, she was invited by the National Film Board of Canada to participate in Hothouse 3, an animation intensive for emerging animators, where she completed her first professional film "A Prairie Story". Her films have screened nationally and internationally at Annecy International Animation Festival, Slamdance, Animation Nation in Singapore, WNDX and the Calgary International Film Festival. In 2008, Anne was awarded the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award, quoted by the Jury as being “a superb animator, a fantastic story-teller, passionate, creative and inspirational in the way she uses sophisticated imagery and sound.” Anne has taught stop-motion animation workshops at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, Hospitals and Community Centres throughout Toronto, Quickdraw Animation Society in Calgary, Alberta and taught animation and documentary workshops at the National Film Board of Canada, to eventually work in the educational department of the NFB. She then made "The Yellow Wallpaper", an short animation film adaptation of the story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman that was screened at multiples festivals. Her latest film, "In the Shadow of the Pines" had it world premiere at the Hot Docs international documentary film festival that was screened online in 2020 and has been acquired by CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) to be available on their streaming platform CBC Gems.

Filmes

In the Shadow of the Pines
In the Shadow of the Pines
Animation
In the Shadow of the Pines is an animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended. The film explores the idea of shame and how it can shape and define us while also concealing who we can truly become.
In the Shadow of the Pines
In the Shadow of the Pines
Director
In the Shadow of the Pines is an animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended. The film explores the idea of shame and how it can shape and define us while also concealing who we can truly become.
In the Shadow of the Pines
In the Shadow of the Pines
Daughter
In the Shadow of the Pines is an animated short documentary about a difficult father-daughter relationship. Drawing on childhood memories, Anne Koizumi, the filmmaker, explores her upbringing with her Japanese immigrant dad, who was also the janitor at the elementary school she attended. The film explores the idea of shame and how it can shape and define us while also concealing who we can truly become.
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper
Director
In this stop-motion animated adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper, a woman descends into madness when she is forced into isolation, after giving birth to her first child. Alone in a room, surrounded by an unsightly yellow wallpaper, her anxiety and paranoia intensifies and the woman begins to identify with a figure trapped behind the surface of the wall.
A Prairie Story
A Prairie Story
Director
A prairie landscape undergoes a metamorphosis: rural idyll to over-urbanized dystopia. Director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her hometown of Calgary in this critique of the bacteria-like spread of suburbia and exurbia. This film was made as part of the third edition of the NFB's Hothouse apprenticeship.