Arna Selznick

Arna Selznick is a Canadian-born animation director, who is married to her working partner, writer/director John van Bruggen. Selznick and van Bruggen have a creative partnership under the name dancingmonkeys.

She is most famous for directing the successful film debut of the Care Bears in their first movie from 1985; she is hence only one of four women ever to direct an animated feature. (The other three were Joy Batchelor for "Animal Farm", Lotte Reiniger for "The Adventures of Prince Achmed", and "The Prince of Egypt"'s Brenda Chapman.)

Selznick and her husband have recently created "Coolman!", which premiered in January of 2005 on the YTV network's "Funpak!" package.

Some of Selznick's other credits include:

* "Toot And Puddle" (storyboard artist)
* "Ruby Gloom" (storyboard artist)
* "Total Drama Island" (storyboard artist)
* "Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends" (storyboard artist)
* "6teen" (storyboard artist)
* "Max And Ruby" (storyboard artist)
* "Peep and the Big Wide World" (storyboard artist)
* "Dog City" (storyboard artist)
* "Beetlejuice" (storyboard artist)
* "" (storyboard supervisor)
* "" (storyboard supervisor)
* "Inspector Gadget" (senior storyboard supervisor)
* "Little Bear" (director of 2nd and 3rd seasons)
* "Return to Never Land" (storyboard artist)
* "Franklin" (director on "Back to School with Franklin" and A.D. and LEICA director on "Franklin and the Green Knight" and "Franklin's Magic Christmas")
* "My Pet Monster" (storyboard supervisor)
* "Madballs" (layout director)
* "Clone High" (storyboard artist)
* "The King's Beard" (storyboard artist)
* "Skyland" (storyboard artist)
* "Family Dog" (storyboard artist)

External links

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* [http://www.dancingmonkeys.com/ArnaBio/Arnapage.htm Biography of Arna Selznick]