AWN is gloomy to share that Haarlem, Netherlands-based Oscar-winning animation producer Cilia van Dijk Lieshout died April 26, 2023, on the age of 81, after a brief sickness. After marrying artist Gerrit van Kijk in 1963, she started her profession as a movie producer when he started making animated movies.
Lieshout’s 1984 Dutch animated quick, Anna & Bella, earned her an Academy Award for Finest Animated Brief Movie as a producer. Her different notable manufacturing credit embrace DaDa, Frieze Body, I Transfer so I Am, The Final Phrases of Dutch Schultz (2001), and A Good Flip Every day (1983).
In 1978, Lieshout established Animated Folks, a Dutch distribution firm and forerunner of the Netherlands Institute for Animated Movie. As well as, she was a board member of the Holland Animation Affiliation, participated in advisory committees for grant awards, and was energetic on choice committees and as a jury member for festivals worldwide.
Lieshout was concerned within the Haarlem artist circuit and contributed to numerous native initiatives. She sorted the manufacturing and funds of Haarlem theatre firm Het Volk and was concerned administratively with the Toneelschuur. She was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau and was a member of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences.
Debbie Diamond Sarto is information editor at Animation World Community.
