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Sara Gunnarsdóttir
Sara Gunnarsdóttir is an Icelandic director, animator and artist. She is mainly known for directing and animating sequences of ''The Diary of a Teenage Girl'' (2015) and for directing and animating the Oscar-nominated short film '' My Year of Dicks'' (2022). Career In 2003, Sara received a BFA from the Icelandic Academy of the Arts. She also holds an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts, from which she graduated in 2012. Sara worked on Marielle Heller’s feature ''The Diary of a Teenage Girl'' and HBO’s ''The Case Against Adnan Sayed''. Her work has been showcased at AFI Fest, SXSW, Annecy and the Telluride Film Festival. Filmography (selected) * Sugarcube (2009) - director, animator. * ''Cutthroat Roundabout'' (2012) (music video), song by Kira Kira - director, animator. * ''The Pirate of Love'' (2012) - director, animator. * ''Los Angeles; Westlake'' (2013) - director, cinematographer. * ''The Diary of a Teenage Girl ''The Diary of a Teenage Girl'' is a 2015 ...
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Reykjavík
Reykjavík is the Capital city, capital and largest city in Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland on the southern shore of Faxaflói, the Faxaflói Bay. With a latitude of 64°08′ N, the city is List of northernmost items, the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. Reykjavík has a population of around 139,000 as of 2025. The surrounding Capital Region (Iceland), Capital Region has a population of around 249,000, constituting around 64% of the country's population. Reykjavík is believed to be the location of the first permanent settlement in Iceland, which, according to , was established by Ingólfr Arnarson, Ingólfur Arnarson in 874 Anno Domini, AD. Until the 18th century, there was no urban development in the city location. The city was officially founded in 1786 as a trading town and grew steadily over the following decades, as it transformed into a regional and later Country, national centre of commerce, population, and governmental activities. Re ...
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My Year Of Dicks
''My Year of Dicks'' is a 2022 American independent adult animated short film directed by Sara Gunnarsdóttir, created and written by Pamela Ribon. It was nominated for the 95th Academy Awards under the category Best Animated Short Film. Background The film was based on Pamela Ribon's 2014 comedic memoir ''Notes to Boys: And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public''. Plot It's 1991, and Pam – a stubborn, imaginative 15-year-old from the outskirts of Houston – embarks on a comedic journey of disappointment and self-discovery as she seeks the right boy to lose her virginity with so she can become the fully realized woman she's imagined herself to be. Her first option, David, is an edgy, dramatic fellow skater who insists he's secretly a vampire. Pam's best friend, Sam, is unimpressed, but Pam is smitten by David. She invites David over to her house when her parents are away, but is disconcerted when he invites an entire party of people, including her ex. She and David make ...
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The Diary Of A Teenage Girl
''The Diary of a Teenage Girl'' is a 2015 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Marielle Heller, based on the hybrid novel of the same name by Phoebe Gloeckner. It stars Bel Powley as a 15-year-old girl who becomes sexually active by starting a relationship with her mother's boyfriend. It also stars Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, Quinn Nagle, and Austin Lyon. It premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and had a limited release on August 7, 2015, by Sony Pictures Classics. Plot In 1976 San Francisco, 15-year-old aspiring cartoonist Minnie Goetze begins keeping an audio diary. She is stirred by her awakening sexuality and wants to lose her virginity. She fears she may be unattractive. When Minnie's bohemian mother Charlotte is too busy to go out with her boyfriend Monroe, she suggests he take Minnie out instead. At a bar, they flirt and she tells him she wants to sleep with him. They begin meeting at his apartment and having sex. ...
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CalArts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art school in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both the visual and performing arts. It offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. The school was first envisioned by many benefactors in the early 1960s including Nelbert Chouinard, Walt Disney, Lulu Von Hagen, and Thornton Ladd. History CalArts was originally formed in 1961, as a merger of the Chouinard Art Institute (founded 1921) and the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music (founded 1883). Both of the formerly existing institutions were going through financial difficulties, and the founder of the Art Institute, Nelbert Chouinard, was terminally ill. Walt Disney was longtime friends with both Chouinard and Lulu May Von Hagen, the chair of the Conservatory, and discovered and trained m ...
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Marielle Heller
Marielle Stiles Heller (born October 1, 1979) is an American filmmaker and actress best known for directing the comedy drama film '' The Diary of a Teenage Girl'' (2015), the biographical drama films '' Can You Ever Forgive Me?'' (2018) and ''A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood'' (2019), and the black comedy horror film '' Nightbitch'' (2024). Prior to becoming a filmmaker, she had supporting roles in films such as '' MacGruber'' (2010) and '' A Walk Among the Tombstones'' (2014). She is also known for her recurring role as Alma Wheatley on the Netflix period drama miniseries '' The Queen's Gambit'' (2020). Early life Heller was born in Berkeley, California, to Steve Heller, a chiropractor, and Annie Heller (née Stiles), an artist and art teacher. She grew up in nearby Alameda, along with her younger brother and sister, Nate and Emily. Her father hails from a Jewish family in New York. Heller started off as an actor, calling acting her "first love." She was part of the Alam ...
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Animators
An animator is an artist who creates images, known as frames, which give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, and video games. Animation is closely related to filmmaking and like filmmaking is extremely labor-intensive, which means that most significant works require the collaboration of several animators. The methods of creating the images or frames for an animation piece depend on the animators' artistic styles and their field. Other artists who contribute to animated cartoons, but who are not animators, include layout artists (who design the backgrounds, lighting, and camera angles), storyboard artists (who draw panels of the action from the script), and background artists (who paint the "scenery"). Animated films share some film crew positions with regular live action films, such as director, producer, sound engineer, and editor, but differ radically in that for mo ...
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Icelandic Film Directors
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Women Animators
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or Adolescence, adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses are capable of pregnancy and giving childbirth, birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, ''SRY'' gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Sex differences in human physiology, Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. An adult woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. These characteristics facilitate childbirth and breastfeeding. Women typically have less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less ...
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