Alumna Ann Marie Fleming's Window Horses Named Best Canadian Film + Best BC Film at VIFF

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Ann Marie provided ECU students with a Master Class on the development and production of her feature this past spring.
Emily Carr University is pleased to share news that alumna Ann Marie Fleming has been awarded the Best BC Film Award and Best Canadian Film Award for her latest feature, Window Horses.
Window Horses is a beautifully narrated
and colourfully animated story of a young girl’s journey toward
self-discovery. After being invited to a poetry festival in Shiraz,
Iran, by a mysterious figure, Rosie Ming faces challenges and
discoveries that ultimately lead to her self-realization. Unaware of the
reasons behind her father’s disappearance, she has her perspective and
conscience awakened by her experiences and the information she uncovers.
"This is not just a visual treat, it’s a rewarding and unexpectedly engrossing piece of female-led storytelling."
The first feature-length animation from the NFB to be selected for the festival since Pierre Hébert’s La plante humaine, the film features a rich colour palette sure to tantalize the audience. At times, it gives way to guest-animated sequences in which poetic illustration and artistic expression convey the spiritedness of living freely. Window Horses uses poetry, music and illustration to celebrate the value of accepting cultures, opening one’s mind and tapping into unknown aspects of the self as a form of self-transformation and spiritual transcendence. The superb voice cast includes festival veterans Don McKellar, Sandra Oh and Ellen Page.
Ann Marie Fleming graduated from the Emily Carr Animation program with Honours in
1989, and has since developed an international reputation for her films
and animations, and her persona 'stick girl'.
Reposted from the Ignite | Youth | BC Spotlight
Congratulations Ann Marie!