Frédéric Back
Frédéric Back (1924-2013) was a Quebec animator, illustrator, muralist, teacher and activist born in France. A prolific and committed filmmaker, he made some of the greatest classics of Canadian animation. Back is known for his technique of drawing on frosted acetate with coloured pencils in a soft, neo-impressionist style. He was a member of the animation studio of the Société Radio-Canada, with which he made several short films, as well as various other programs such as Abracadabra, Inon or the Conquest of Fire, The Creation of Birds, Illusion and All Nothing, in which he denounced the destruction of nature caused by man. Frédéric Back enjoyed worldwide popularity and won the Oscar for best animated short film for Crac in 1982 and for his masterpiece, The Man Who Planted Trees, in 1988.
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