Ann Marie Fleming
Ann Marie Fleming | |
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Born | July 29, 1962 |
Nationality | Canadian |
Education |
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Years active | 1987-present |
Relatives | Long Tack Sam (great-grandfather) |
Website | www |
Ann Marie Fleming is an
Her animated biographical film The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (2003) won Best Documentary at the
.Background
Fleming has a
Fleming was a graduate film advisor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and co-founded Global Mechanic, an animation/film/design production house, in Vancouver. She is also the Phil Lind Multicultural Artist in residence to the University of British Columbia from October 2015 to May 2016. There, she mentors and works with students in the university's Film Production program and those from other programs who are keen on learning about filmmaking.[3]
Fleming first emerged from the West Coast art scene in the 1980s with the likes of visual artists-turned-filmmakers like Fumiko Kiyooka, Linda Ohama and Mina Shum. Fleming and Shum met as students in 1989 and have since remained close friends.[6] It was through Shum that she first met actress Sandra Oh in 1994. Fleming later met Oh again at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 and asked her to perform voice-over in and produce her animated feature, Window Horses (2016).[7] The film is largely financed by crowdfunding through Indiegogo.[2]
Stick Girl
In her early days as an
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (2003)
While recovering from the same traffic accident, Fleming acquired 16 mm film reels, home movies of her great-grandfather, the mysterious Asian magician, Long Tack Sam.[8] Intrigued, she went to find out more about how a Chinese man could have been a successful vaudeville star during days of political strife and racial tension in the early 20th century who was, as the film later reveals, world-renowned, yet forgotten.
As a narrator and character herself in the story, Fleming traces her grandfather's footsteps all over the world, from Canada to the United States, China, England, Austria and later back to Canada. Her journey for clarity proves difficult when contradicting origin stories of Sam emerge.[9] Daniella Trimboli argues that instead of focusing on multiplicities, Fleming deconstructs the idea of singular truth by blending traditional documentary forms with her non-conventional storytelling techniques.[10] Fleming does this by combining comic-book strips for Sam's origin stories and animation of characters in old photographs with interviews, first-person narration and old footage.[9]
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam is part of a subgenre that Jim Lane calls the 'family portrait
In 2007, Fleming made a graphic novel adaptation of the film which won the Doug Wright "Best Book Award" for graphic novels in 2008 and had two Eisner award nominations.[13][14]
Filmography
- Waving (1987)
- You Take Care Now (1989)
- New Shoes: an interview in exactly 5 minutes (1990) — a segment of movie Five Feminist Minutes
- Pioneers of X-Ray Technology (1991)
- So Far So... (1992)
- It's Me, Again (1993)
- Buckingham Palace (1993)
- La Fabula della bella Familia auf du World (1993)
- My Boyfriend Gave Me Peaches (1994)
- I Love My Work (1994)
- Pleasure Film (Ahmed's Story) (1995)
- Automatic Writing (1996)
- Great Expectations: not what you're thinking (1997)
- AMF's Tiresias (1998)
- One & Only (1999)
- Hysterical: the musical (2000)
- Lip Service: a mystery (2001)
- Aguas de Março (2002)
- Blue Skies (2002)
- The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (2003)
- Room 710 (2005)
- The French Guy (2005)
- My Obscure Object of Desire(2006)
- Running (2008)
- Landslide (2008)
- My Place webisodes (2009)
- Window Horses Karaoke Project (2009)
- I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors (2010)
- Gluttony (2011)
- Big Trees (2013)
- Window Horses (2016)
- Vancouver April 2020 18:59:30 PT (2020)[15]
Awards]
- Northampton Independent Film Festival
- Boston Underground Film Festival
- Ann Arbor Film Festival
- Northwest Film Festival
- San Diego Asian Film Festival
- Reel Asian Film Festival
- Toronto International Film Festival (best Canadian short, three-time winner)
- Vancouver Arts Award
- Victoria Film Festival- documentary award
- Vancouver International Film Festival - Best Canadian, Best B.C. Film
- Gijon International Film Festival Best animated feature
- Stuttgart International Animated Film Festival - Animovie - best feature film
- Asia Pacific Screen Awards best animated feature
References
- ^ "Sleepy Dog Films".
- ^ a b c McDonald, Soraya Nadia (19 Dec 2014). "Sandra Oh moves from 'Grey's' to producing the new animated film 'Window Horses'". The Washington Post.
- ^ a b "ROGERS MULTICULTURAL FILM PRODUCTION PROGRAM". Theatre & Film. The University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 2018-09-01.
- ^ "Ann Marie Fleming, MFA, School of Contemporary Arts". Simon Fraser University. 26 Oct 2015.
- ^ "Ann Marie Fleming". Akademie Schloss Solitude. Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
- ^ Chang, Elaine (2007). In Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen. Toronto: Coach House Books. pp. 81–97.
- ^ a b Asakawa, Gil (19 Jan 2015). "Sandra Oh's New Role Is Executive Producer of an Animated Film". The Huffington Post.
- ^ Tanner, Matt (5 Oct 2007). "INTERVIEW: Ann Marie Fleming, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam author, artist, and filmmaker". Smith. Smith Magazine.
- ^ a b c Fleming, Ann-Marie (2003). "NFB.Ca". The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. National Film Board of Canada.
- ^ a b Trimboli, Daniella. (2015). "Memory Magic: Cosmopolitanism And The Magical Life Of Long Tack Sam". Continuum 29 (3): 479-489. doi:10.1080/10304312.2014.986063.
- ISBN 978-0299176549.
- S2CID 142554938.
- ^ "Past Winners". Doug Wright Awards.
- ^ Matheson, Whitney (14 April 2008). "Congrats, Eisner nominees!". USA Today.
- ^ Norman Wilner, "Canadian directors are making films in self-isolation". Now, May 12, 2020.
External links
- ^ "Sleepy Dog Films".
- ^ a b c McDonald, Soraya Nadia (19 Dec 2014). "Sandra Oh moves from 'Grey's' to producing the new animated film 'Window Horses'". The Washington Post.
- ^ a b "ROGERS MULTICULTURAL FILM PRODUCTION PROGRAM". Theatre & Film. The University of British Columbia. Archived from the original on 2018-09-01.
- ^ "Ann Marie Fleming, MFA, School of Contemporary Arts". Simon Fraser University. 26 Oct 2015.
- ^ "Ann Marie Fleming". Akademie Schloss Solitude. Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2016-02-22.
- ^ Chang, Elaine (2007). In Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen. Toronto: Coach House Books. pp. 81–97.
- ^ a b Asakawa, Gil (19 Jan 2015). "Sandra Oh's New Role Is Executive Producer of an Animated Film". The Huffington Post.
- ^ Tanner, Matt (5 Oct 2007). "INTERVIEW: Ann Marie Fleming, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam author, artist, and filmmaker". Smith. Smith Magazine.
- ^ a b c Fleming, Ann-Marie (2003). "NFB.Ca". The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. National Film Board of Canada.
- ^ a b Trimboli, Daniella. (2015). "Memory Magic: Cosmopolitanism And The Magical Life Of Long Tack Sam". Continuum 29 (3): 479-489. doi:10.1080/10304312.2014.986063.
- ISBN 978-0299176549.
- S2CID 142554938.
- ^ "Past Winners". Doug Wright Awards.
- ^ Matheson, Whitney (14 April 2008). "Congrats, Eisner nominees!". USA Today.
- ^ Norman Wilner, "Canadian directors are making films in self-isolation". Now, May 12, 2020.