Don Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt is a twotime Academy Award nominated animator, artist, writer, and independent filmmaker. He is the creator of many animated films, including Its Such a Beautiful Day, World of Tomorrow, The Meaning of Life, and Rejected. His films have received over 250 awards and have been presented around the world. Seven of his films have competed at the Sundance Film Festival, a festival record. He is also the only filmmaker to have won the Sundance Film Festivals Grand Jury Prize for Short Film twice.
Hertzfeldt was born on August 1, 1976 in Alameda County, California, the son of an airline pilot and a county library clerk. Some publications have his place of birth as Fremont, California while others name the smaller Castro Valley, California. He is of half Swedish descent. Hertzfeldt attended Mission San Jose High School in Fremont. In his childhood, Hertzfeldt drew homemade comic books and at the age of 15, he began to teach himself animation with a VHS video camera. Two of Hertzfeldts teenage VHS cartoons can be seen on the Bitter Films VolumeDVD collection.
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