Signe Baumane
Signe Baumane is a Latvian-born, Brooklyn-based independent animator, filmmaker, artist and writer. She holds a degree in philosophy from Moscow State University, started in animation as a cel painter at Riga Animated Film Studio, where she directed her first short in 1991, and after moving to New York worked for independent animator Bill Plympton as cel painter, art director and production manager from 1996 to 2003. Since 1998 she has written, directed and animated her own films at her own studio, among them numerous award-winning shorts and the animated features Rocks in My Pockets (2014), winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Karlovy Vary, and My Love Affair With Marriage (2022), nominated by the European Film Academy for Best Animated Feature. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Film.
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2014
Tarzan
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Animation
Editing
2010
To Swallow a Toad
Other crew
2009
Birth
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Art and design
Animation
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Cinematography
Editing
2007
Veterinarian
Directed by
Story
Art and design
2002
Woman
Directed by
Story
Art and design
Editing
1999
The Threatened One
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Art and design
Animation
Other crew
1998
Love Story
Directed by
Story
Art and design
Animation
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Editing
1995
The Gold of the Tigers
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Story
Art and design
1993
Tiny Shoes
Directed by
Story
Art and design
1991
The Witch and the Cow
Directed by
Story
Art and design
Animation
Editing
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