The Rockefeller Foundation has awarded JOHN CANEMAKER a month-long Creative Arts Residency at its Bellagio Center on Lake Como. He will travel to Italy this summer to begin work on a new personal animated film. During a previous Bellagio residency in 1999, Canemaker created storyboards and a script for his Academy Award-winning animated short "The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation."Canemaker was also one of six New York University faculty members to receive the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award, presented annually for "exceptional teaching, inside and outside the classroom." He is a full professor and executive director of the animation program at the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts.
