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Lemieux Michèle
A graduate of the School of Visual Arts at Université Laval in Quebec City, Michèle Lemieux entered the world of illustration in the late 1970s. She spent five years working in Germany before returning to Montreal, where she has taught at UQAM's design school since 1990. Her children's books have been translated into some 20 languages and garnered numerous awards, including the Bologna Ragazzi Award (for Stormy Night, 1997), one of the highest international honours for children's literature. In 2000, she turned her hand to animation, adapting her book into the short Stormy Night (2003), which has won a dozen awards, including the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2008, she returned to filmmaking after encountering the Alexeïeff-Parker pinscreen at an NFB workshop led by Jacques Drouin. Her immediate affinity for this singular apparatus led her to embark on her second animated film, Le grand ailleurs et le petit ici.
