Penny Lane's Nuts! is a thoroughly entertaining, inventive documentary about John R. Brinkley, a turn-of-the-20th century quack doctor.
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Keep ReadingSince it first popped up in Toronto in the early ’90s, Cuppa Coffee has consistently taken a wide ranging approach to animation.
Keep ReadingWanna make a quick buck? Join the thousands who are cashing in on the exciting field of animation training! Get in while it’s hot! Hyperbole aside, animation education is booming in Canada.
Keep ReadingAh, memories of Oscar, from Audrey Hepburn hiking up her dress to show NFB director Eunice Macaulay her outrageously high heels, to Oscar winning NFB animators, up on the big stage, frozen
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