Colleen Holub

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Cartoon Making/Storytelling
Location Vancouver, BC, Canada
Introduction I'm an animator, illustrator and artist and love to draw and make cartoons for TV. For over 20 years, I’ve had the good fortune to contribute to many wonderful projects like, The Adventures of Puss In Boots, Martha Speaks and What About Mimi?, for production companies like Dreamworks TV, Klasky Csupo, PBS Kids, Nickelodeon, and Walt DisneyTV. In 2015, I designed illustrations for How It Happened In Hotterly Hollow, a children's book that received the 2015 Silver Metal Wishing Shelf Award, in the category of Pre-School Picture Books (these children's books were read and judged by children, and marked according to illustrations, among other criteria). In 2011 I was thrilled and honored to be nominated for a Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing In An Animated Program, as Co-Director of Martha Speaks. In 2001, What About Mimi? an animated TV series in which I'm credited as Co-Creator and Director, won the Pulcinella Award for Best Series for Children.
Interests family, art, animation, film, fresh air, fresh local strawberries.
Favorite Movies The Iron Giant, Ratatouille, The Goonies, ET, Pulp Fiction, Pan's Labyrinth, Cinema Paradiso, Stand By Me, Its a Wonderful Life, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Naked Gun, Young Frankenstein, My Life As a Dog, Alien, The Princess Bride, A Shot In the Dark, The Good, The Bad And the Ugly, American Graffiti, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jaws, The Shining, The Thing (1982), Coraline, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Down By Law, Blue Velvet, Amelie, The Royal Tenenbaums, City of God, Lost In Translation
Favorite Music Jazz, man. Also Latin, Be-bop, Funk, Soul, Blues, Pop, Folk, and Old-time country. Bands like: Blue Rodeo, Morcheeba, Dee-Lite, Sea and Cake, Massive Attack, Ian Dury & the Blockheads, Mazzy Star, Hank Williams, Dwight Yokum, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Etta James, Eva Cassidy, Amy Winehouse, Madonna, etc, etc.
Favorite Books The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie, Still Life, The Ocean At the End of the Lane, Water For Elephants, Moloka'i, A Song of Fire and Ice, The Art of Racing In the Rain, Fried Green Tomatoes