Terril Calder is a Canadian artist and animator. She is most noted for her short film '' Snip'', which was named to the

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's annual year-end

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list in 2016.

Life and education

Calder was born in

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. She attended the University of Manitoba's Fine Art program where she studied drawing and film.

Career

Calder, a

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from

, released her first short film ''Canned Meat'' in 2009. In 2011 she was the animator on

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's short film ''

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'', which was a

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nominee for

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at the

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in 2012, and on her own short film ''The Gift'', which won the Kent Monkman Award for Best Experimental/Innovation in Storytelling at the 2011

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. In 2014 she released ''The Lodge'', her first full-length feature film. Calder was given the 2016 K.M. Hunter award by the Ontario Arts Council for her work in Media Arts. '' Meneath: The Hidden Island of Ethics'' was released in 2021.

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