Manchester Animation Festival

Marcy Page is an animator, director and producer, originally from California, where she free-lanced and taught animation courses at San Francisco State University. Her film Paradisia was awarded at over a dozen international festivals. She immigrated to Canada and joined the National Film Board in 1990. As a producer she sought out eclectic auteur shorts with over 60 films earning about 350 awards including six Oscar® nominations (for their directors) with two finally winning Oscars®. After “retiring” to pursue more personal work, she created Virgin Fandango, inspired by Portugal where she lives part-time.