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Gerald Potterton Bio recipient of The AnimationThat Matters Award Gerald Potterton (born 8 March 1931) is a British–Canadian director, producer and animator. He is best known for directing the cult classic Heavy Metal and his animation work on Yellow Submarine.
Potterton has been nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: as director on the National Film Board of Canada animated shorts My Financial Career and Christmas Cracker, and as producer for The Selfish Giant.
After working as an assistant animator in London, Potterton joined the NFB in 1954 where he directed both animated and live-action films. He collaborated with Harold Pinter on Pinter's People in 1969 and Buster Keaton on The Railrodder in 1965.[3]
After contributing to George Dunning's animated feature Yellow Submarine in 1968, he returned to freelance work in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
He is one of the major contributors of the film still alive. And he will receive the Animation that matters Award from the hands of ADIC co founder Laurie Gordon (Montreal International Animation Film Festival), she is currently shooting a documentary on his life.
The film tells of dreaming, Pepperland and sings ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE. Is there any better reason to give it an award asks Bruno Chatelin ADIC co founder?
During the early 1970s, among other projects, he directed live-action and animated sequences for Sesame Street and The Electric Company.
In 1981 he was hired by producer Ivan Reitman to direct the animated feature Heavy Metal. Potterton coordinated more than one thousand artists, animators and technicians from seventeen countries working in Los Angeles, New York, London, Montreal and Ottawa.
During the 1980s and 1990s, he continued making animated and live-action features for television and video.
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