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Ann Marie Fleming

Summary
Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist. She was born in Okinawa, USCAR (nowadays Japan), in 1962 and is of Chinese, Ryukyuan and Australian descent. Her film Window Horses was released in 2016. Her animated biographical film The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (2003) won Best Documentary at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Victoria Independent Film Festival. She is the great-granddaughter of the Chinese magician, acrobat and vaudeville performer Long Tack Sam. Fleming has a B.A. in English (Hon) from the University of British Columbia in 1984, and with a B.F.A. (Diploma in animation) from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Open University in 1989. Later, she did an M.F.A. at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts in 1992. She completed the Cineplex Entertainment Film Program Directors' Lab in 1992 and was a resident at the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) in Toronto in the same year until 1993. In the following year, she was chosen by the painter, Lawrence Weiner, to be an artist in residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart until 1995. Fleming was a graduate film advisor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and co-founded Global Mechanic, an animation/film/design production house, in Vancouver. She is also the Phil Lind Multicultural Artist in residence to the University of British Columbia from October 2015 to May 2016. There, she mentors and works with students in the university's Film Production program and those from other programs who are keen on learning about filmmaking. Fleming first emerged from the West Coast art scene in the 1980s with the likes of visual artists-turned-filmmakers like Fumiko Kiyooka, Linda Ohama and Mina Shum. Fleming and Shum met as students in 1989 and have since remained close friends. It was through Shum that she first met actress Sandra Oh in 1994. Fleming later met Oh again at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2014 and asked her to perform voice-over in and produce her animated feature, Window Horses (2016).
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