Christopher Hinton (b. 1952 Galt, Ontario) is a Canadian film
animator, film director and professor, living in Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. Hinton's films have won international awards and
been twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short
Film: in 1991 for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated
short film Blackfly and in 2003 for his independently made short
Nibbles. Hinton won a Genie Award for his 2004 short film cNote. He
began freelancing for the NFB in Winnipeg in the 1970s. He has written
and directed over a dozen films for The National Film Board of Canada,
CBC, & Sesame Street. Recent films, Flux (NFB,2003), cNote (NFB,
2005), Chroma Concerto (2007), and Compression (2008), explore the
boundaries of narrative and abstraction and the integration of
contemporary media into the moving image. He was a full-time professor
in the Animation Program at Concordia University.
animator, film director and professor, living in Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada. Hinton's films have won international awards and
been twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short
Film: in 1991 for the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) animated
short film Blackfly and in 2003 for his independently made short
Nibbles. Hinton won a Genie Award for his 2004 short film cNote. He
began freelancing for the NFB in Winnipeg in the 1970s. He has written
and directed over a dozen films for The National Film Board of Canada,
CBC, & Sesame Street. Recent films, Flux (NFB,2003), cNote (NFB,
2005), Chroma Concerto (2007), and Compression (2008), explore the
boundaries of narrative and abstraction and the integration of
contemporary media into the moving image. He was a full-time professor
in the Animation Program at Concordia University.
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