DAWN BOYDA lifetime film enthusiast, Dawn Boyd has been a filmmaker and animator since 2003. Her animated short, Heino, won first place in Halifax’s Garrison Big Break Ad Challenge, allowing her the opportunity to direct her first live-action short film, The Fishing, in 2005. This became a selection of the DragonCon Film Festival in Atlanta, Georgia and New York’s First Sundays Festival Series. Dawn enrolled in the Nova Scotia Community College Screen Arts program in 2005, where she had the opportunity to write and direct numerous short films. She graduated in 2007 with the Highest Achievement Award and the William F. White’s Industry Award. In the summer of 2006, she taught a two-week Screen Arts workshop to a group of teen girls for the Women in Media Foundation. Her short film Daddy Why? has been featured in Fredericton, New Brunswick’s Silver Wave Film Festival, the DragonCon Film Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, and New York’s First Sundays Festival Series. Dawn is now living in Grand-Barachois, New Brunswick, with husband and collaborator Michael Aronson, and is presently in development on two short films and a hand-drawn animation.
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