Marie Valade
Marie Valade is a newly minted graduate of the Film Animation program at Concordia University, where she garnered three prizes, including the Norman McLaren Award in 2010, the “Prix de la relève en cinéma d’animation” from the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2009 and the Sandra and Leo Kolber Scholarship in Animation in 2008. During her studies, she was interested in exploring the photographic aspects of animation through the use of pixilation, animated objects and stop-motion.