Suzie Templeton is a director

Film director

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, animator

Animator

An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...

 and writer of stop motion

Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

 animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 films. She is best known for her 2006 animated adaptation

Film adaptation

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 of Prokofiev's

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

 Peter and the Wolf.

Suzie began her career studying a BA in Animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham (UCA Farnham), which was at the time of her studies known as the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Templeton's films have received widespread critical acclaim and have won many major international awards including an Academy Award, a BAFTA, two British Animation Awards, the Rose d'Or

Rose d'Or

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, the Hiroshima Prize and the Cristal d'Annecy.

In October 2008 Suzie Templeton joined the roster of animation directors at Tandem Films. She is also writing a feature film.

Filmography

• Stanley
  Stanley (film)
  Stanley is a 1999 award-winning stop motion animated short film written, directed and animated by Suzie Templeton. It was made at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College, now the University for the Creative Arts in England.- Synopsis :...
  
   (1999)
• Dog
  Dog (film)
  Dog is a BAFTA-winning stop motion animated short film written, directed and animated by Suzie Templeton. The film was made at the Royal College of Art in 2001.- Synopsis :A young boy longs for reassurance about how his mother died...
  
   (2001)
• Peter and the Wolf (2006)

External links

• PBS interview with Suzie Templeton about "Peter and the Wolf"
• http://www.tandemfilms.com - Tandem Films
• http://www.shots.net/news_detail.asp?id=4448 - Shots Magazine article detailing Templeton's signing to Tandem Films