Anna Ginsburg is a British film director [1] working with a range of techniques and mediums, including traditional hand drawn 2D animation, stop-motion, as well as live-action. [2]
Anna Ginsburg is a British film director [1] working with a range of techniques and mediums, including traditional hand drawn 2D animation, stop-motion, as well as live-action. [2]
Ginsburg grew up in Kentish Town and attended Camberwell College of Arts for her foundation degree and the Edinburgh College of Art where she studied animation, and graduated in 2012. [3] She is frequently collaborating with illustrators and artists, such as Sara Andreasson, [4] Caitlin McCarthy [5] and Melissa Kitty Jarram. [6]
Ginsburg has worked on many independent animated films that have received awards, including a music video, How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep?, that won a BAFTA at the National Talent Awards. [7] She has also received an ADC Young Guns award [8] as well as a British Arrows award for her work on Material World. [9]
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