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| Paul Driessen Screening and Seminar |
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Paul Driessen
Born in 1940 in Nijmegen, Holland, Paul Driessen drew cartoons from an early age.
In 1964, he graduated from the Art Academy in Utrecht, Holland, and was offered a job as an animator at a commercial animation film & TV studio in Hilversum.
In 1967, he was invited to London, UK, to work on George Dunning's "The Yellow Submarine".
In 1970, Paul Driessen emigrated to Canada and started a freelance animation career, working mainly for the National Film Board of Canada. Since 1976, he also animated and directed many of his films for independent producers in Holland.
Up to now Paul Driessen has won over 70 international awards for his work.
His film "3 Misses"earned him an Oscar nomination in 1999.
In 1987, ASIFA Hollywood presented the ANNIE AWARD to him for "his distinguished contribution to the art of animation". In 1994, at the Ottawa Animation Festival, the International Association of Animated Films (ASIFA) gave Paul Driessen the ASIFA-International "Life Achievement Award". In 2002, the Zagreb International Animation Festival gave him another "Life Achievement Award".
In October 2005, in Cracow, Poland, he was given the "Special Golden Dinosaur Award for an outstanding artist and teacher".
Until recently, Paul Driessen has also taught animation on a regular basis at the University of Kassel in Germany. Under his guidance his students have won two Oscars.
Lately, he wrote and illustrated a couple of books, typical of the style which characterizes the rest of his work; they are published in English and French in Montreal.
Paul Driessen is currently working on two new films; one in Canada and one in Holland with his son Kaj, a live action director.
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