Haarlem, Netherlands-based, Academy Award-winning animation producer Cilia van Dijk died April 26 on the age of 81 after a brief sickness. Along with producing noteworthy movies reminiscent of Piet Kroon’s DaDa, Sjaak Meilink’s Stiltwalker and Børge Ring’s Oscar-winning brief Anna & Bella, van Dijk was a champion of Dutch animation on the worldwide scene.
Born Cilia van Lieshout in Uden on November 22, 1941, the filmmaker skilled as a instructor and was an lively entrepreneur from an early age, co-founding Launch and establishing each a modelling company and a nursery faculty. She married actor-filmmaker Gerrit van Dijk in 1963, and was launched to the world of animation when he started making animated movies, and served as producer on his works like The Final Phrases of Dutch Schultz, Frieze Body, Pas à deux (with Monique Renault) and I transfer, so I’m. The artistic pair have been married for nearly 50 years earlier than Gerrit handed away in 2012 from lung most cancers.
In 1978, to succeed in a wider viewers for Dutch animated movies, Cilia van Dijk based distribution firm Animated Individuals, the forerunner of the Netherlands Institute for Animated Movie. She was a board member for the Holland Animation Affiliation, participated in advisory committees for grant awards and was additionally lively on choice committees and as a jury member for festivals around the globe.
Collectively along with her husband, van Dijk was additionally concerned within the Haarlem arts group and contributed to numerous native initiatives. For years, she taken care of the manufacturing and funds of Haarlem theater firm Het Volk, and was intently concerned administratively with the Toneelschuur theater (now De Schuur) and lots of freelance artists and theatrical auteurs.
In 1986, van Dijk received the Oscar for Greatest Brief Animation Movie as producer of Anna & Bella. The award was memorably introduced by The Muppets stars Kermit (puppeteered by Jim Henson) and Scooter (Richard Hunt).
A number of of van Dijk’s distinctive, unconventional and charming animated movies have additionally received awards, together with two Golden Bears from the Berlinale (for Pas à deux and I transfer, so I’m). The hardworking crusader for Dutch animation was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau and was a member of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences.
The winner was Cilia Van Dijk, Producer of Anna & Bella pic.twitter.com/xnDJPRkc2k
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