Animated Short | 2020 | Canada | 3 Minutes | English
Writer/director Ann Marie Fleming (Window Horses) makes visible the tender work of caretaking in her new animated short, Old Dog. All dogs (and people) should be so lucky and so loved.
Documentary | 2023 | Chile | 1 Hour 42 Minutes | Spanish
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her. Winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Ann Marie Fleming is an award-winning Canadian writer, director, and animator. Her cross-platform work contends with themes of family and history through a variety of genres, including animation, documentary, and drama.
She adapted her 2003 animated documentary, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam, into an Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel in 2007, and has since created a number of acclaimed short films, including Big Trees (2013), I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors (2010), and the animated web series My Place (2009) for Discovery USA’s Planetgreen.com. In 2016, Ann Marie’s animated feature Window Horses, about a young Canadian poet discovering her family history, screened around the world.
In addition to creating a short film for the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards and directing Question Period, about the experiences of a group of Syrian refugees in Canada, she is currently working on a number of new projects. Old Dog, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), is her most recent animated short.
