Caroline Leaf Out on a Limb, Handcrafted Cinema

Handcrafted Cinema

The Magical Eye

Kate and Anna McGarrigle

Interview

I Met a Man

Suite for Freedom

Two Sisters

The Fox and the Tiger: A Chinese Parable

Pies

The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa

The Street

The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend

Sand or Peter and the Wolf

Caroline Leaf (born August 12, 1946) is a Canadian-American filmmaker, animator, director, tutor and artist. 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 (NFB). She worked at the NFB from 1972 to 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, England, and is a tutor at The National Film and Television School. She maintains a studio in London working in oils and on paper and does landscape drawing with an iPad.