Ludmila Zeman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ludmila Zeman

Czech Canadian artist, animator, and creator of children's books

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1947

Place of Birth: Czechoslovakia

Profession: writer, animator, artist, painter, film director, director

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Ludmila Zeman

  • Ludmila Zeman (born 23 April 1947) is a Czech–Canadian artist, animator, and creator of children's books.
  • She is the daughter of filmmaker Karel Zeman.Zeman was born in the Moravian Czech city of ZlĂ­n (renamed Gottwaldov in 1949, through 1989).
  • She graduated from the college of art (StrednĂ­ umeleckoprumyslová škola) in UherskĂ© Hradište.
  • She worked as her father's assistant for his final films, and married Eugen SpálenĂ˝, the chief animator at his studio.
  • They had two children, Linda and Malvinia.
  • She launched a career in story books and animation for children.In 1983, Zeman and her husband were invited to teach film technique at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver.
  • When the couple attempted to emigrate, the Czechoslovakian communist government refused them permission, accusing them of pro-Western leanings.
  • Zeman was told to leave the animation studio, and SpálenĂ˝ was drafted into menial construction work.
  • In the summer of 1984, the family escaped through Yugoslavia to a refugee camp in Austria, finally arriving in Canada to accept the teaching posts.The Cedar Tree of Life, a thirty-second animated segment the couple produced for the Canadian edition of Sesame Street, attracted the attention of the National Film Board of Canada, which invited the couple to make a short film on a topic of their choice.
  • Zeman's production was Lord of the Sky, based on myths of the Canadian north Pacific First Nations and produced using paper cutouts.
  • The film was a success, winning eleven international awards, including a blue ribbon at the American Film Festival in 1993; it was shown at the Sundance Film Festival the following year and was shortlisted for an Academy Award nomination.Following Lord of the Sky, Zeman and SpálenĂ˝ planned a feature-length animated film based on the Epic of Gilgamesh.
  • Karel Zeman had introduced the epic, which was among his favorite books, to Ludmila when she was eleven.
  • The concept was eventually developed into a trilogy of children's books written and illustrated by Zeman: Gilgamesh the King (1991), The Revenge of Ishtar (1993), and The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (1995).
  • The final book in the trilogy won the 1995 Governor General's Award for Children's Illustration.
  • The Embassy of Canada in Japan presented an exhibition of Ludmila Zeman's work in Tokyo in 2011.

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