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Chartrand Martine
Martine Chartrand was born in Montreal in 1962 and studied social sciences and graphic arts at Ahuntsic College. After completing a BFA in visual arts at Concordia University, she earned a certificate in art education from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1988. She has worked as a painter/illustrator for film production houses, taught, created posters for festivals and participated in exhibitions. She first became involved in animation in 1986, working as a layout and colour artist.
In 1992, Martine Chartrand directed the international award-winning animated short T.V. Tango for the NFB. In 1994, she received a grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and from the Canada Council for the Arts to go to Russia to study under Alexander Petrov, a master of paint-on-glass animation. During her stay, she helped Petrov prepare and translate his film proposal for the animation project The Old Man and the Sea, which was subsequently directed and animated in Montreal by Petrov and produced by Productions Pascal Blais.
Her second film for the NFB, Black Soul / Âme Noire, is an animated short made by painting on glass directly under the camera. It garnered 22 awards, including the Golden Bear for best short film at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival and the 2002 Jutra Award (Montreal) for best animated film.
Martine Chartrand is currently working on MacPherson, an animated short based on the well-known song by Félix Leclerc.
