Born 1964, Auce, Latvia.
Graduated Moscow University, 1989, B.A., Philosophy (...)
On September 1995 she arrives in New York where on January 1996 she starts work as production manager, color stylist, and cel painter for Bill Plympton’s animated feature I Married a Strange Person. The film is completed in the spring of 1997. She also works on the following Bill Plympton short films, Sex and Violence (1997), The exciting Life of a Tree (1998), More Sex and Violence (1998), an MTV pilot Helter Shelter (1998), Surprise Cinema (1999), Eat (2001) as well as takes over production of Bill’s newest feature animation Mutant Aliens in summer 2000, completed later that year. Also she works as production manager, and art supervisor for two films of an independent animator, Debra Solomon, Everybody’s Pregnant (1997), and The Parable of the Clown (1998), a spot for HBO.
In November 1998 she completed her fourth animated film, her first on American soil, Love Story, which went to more than 20 film festivals around the world, and received several awards (...)
Besides animation she also works as an illustrator for children’s books at Santillana Publishing House, Puerto Rico. She is also working with McGraw - Hill, illustrating a textbook series for children. Among her illustration clients is Utne Reader magazine. In 1999 She received Permanent Resident Card as an Extraordinary Ability Alien. Since fall 2000 she is teaching animation at Pratt Institute.
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