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Ferguson Munro
Born in New York City in 1960, Munro Ferguson took a very early interest in cartooning and made his first film, When I Get Older, at age 7. At age 13 he starred in a Michael Snow film, Rameau's Nephew. He studied painting and drawing at the Banff Centre and received a BA in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He continued to make films, becoming a core member of the Funnel Film Group in 1980. His science comic strip Eureka was syndicated in over 30 newspapers around the world.
In 1992 Ferguson designed the graphics for Atom Egoyan's In Passing and the characters for the animated IMAX film Journey to the Planets. In 1994, he joined the NFB English Program's Animation Studio, where he wrote, directed and animated How Dinosaurs Learned to Fly (1995), which attracted one of the largest theatrical audiences of any NFB short. In 1995, he began working for the legendary Roman Kroitor at IMAX Corporation, writing, animating and advising on the development of SANDDETM. He returned to the NFB in 1998, and since then has been training other NFB animators in this innovative system.
Ferguson has created two stereoscopic animations with SANDDETM: Falling in Love Again, winner of the 2004 Genie Award for Best Animated Short, and June, an elegy for his friend and mentor, artist Joyce June Wieland. June premiered at the Art Gallery of Ontario and was invited to numerous international festivals and exhibitions, including SIGGRAPH. He created the first stereoscopic signal film for the Festival Nouveau Cinema 2007 in Montreal. In 2008 he was Animation Director for Facing Champlain a NFB production for the 400th anniversary of Quebec City.
Currently, he is developing Neuropolis, a 3D film about the brain and a collaboration between the Montreal Neurological Institute and the NFB.
