The Canadian director Chris Landreth in the International Jury 2015

Chris Landreth started his adult life as a mechanical engineer, until he decided in 1990 that doing animation would be much more fun. Shortly after this he joined Alias Inc. (now Autodesk), where he created two CG-animated short films, The End (1995) and Bingo (1998). Both films explored storytelling based on human psychology as much as photorealistic character animation. He calls this approach “psychorealism”.

Chris continued this approach in his animated documentary Ryan in 2004, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Copperheart Animation (Oscar 2005 for the Best Animated Short Film), and The Spine in 2009.

Chris’s latest film is Subconscious Password, which is a comic exploration of how we try to remember names of old friends. It was selected in the International Competition of the International Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand in 2014.

Subconscious Password (Trailer), National Film Board of Canada

In addition to filmmaking, Chris teaches Making Faces, an intensive course on Facial Animation, to schools, universities and animation studios worldwide.

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