Terril Calder

Terril Calder
Born
Fort Frances, Ontario, Canada
Occupation(s)Artist, Animator
Websitewww.terrilcalder.com/home.html

Terril Calder is a Canadian artist and animator.[1] She is most noted for her short film Snip, which was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list in 2016.[2]

Life and Education

Calder was born in Fort Frances, Ontario. She attended the University of Manitoba's Fine Art program where she studied drawing and film.[3]

Career

Calder, a Métis from Fort Frances, Ontario, released her first short film Canned Meat in 2009.[4] In 2011 she was the animator on Michelle Latimer's short film Choke, which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 32nd Genie Awards in 2012,[5] and on her own short film The Gift, which won the Kent Monkman Award for Best Experimental/Innovation in Storytelling at the 2011 imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.

In 2014 she released The Lodge, her first full-length feature film.[6]

Calder was given the 2016 K.M. Hunter award by the Ontario Arts Council for her work in Media Arts.[7]

Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics was released in 2021.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Pat Mullen, "Terril Calder Crafts a Duel of Sacred Teachings in Meneath". Point of View, September 11, 2021.
  2. ^ "TIFF announces lineup for Canada's Top 10 Film Festival". CBC News, December 7, 2016.
  3. ^ "Terril Calder". Northernstars.ca. 2022-01-12. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
  4. ^ "Transformations: Terril Calder’s Animated Worlds". The Uniter, May 11, 2018.
  5. ^ Brian D. Johnson, "Quebec and Croneberg (sic) lead Genies". Maclean's, January 17, 2012.
  6. ^ Salma Monani, "The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces". Studies in American Indian Literatures, Vol. 29, no. 4 (2017): pp. 1-28.
  7. ^ Staff, Dance Ontario (2016-04-19). "Ontario Arts Foundation Announces The Winners of the K.M. Hunter Artist Awards". Dance Ontario. Retrieved 2024-03-06.


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