Christiane Cegavske

Christiane Cegavske, also known as Little Miss Crow, is an American animator and filmmaker best known for her 2006 directorial debut feature film, Blood Tea and Red String.
==Career==
Cegavske began her career in 1992 when she released her short film Blood and Sunflowers followed by another short film released a decade later The Doll Maker. She also did animation on the television series X-Chromosome and the 2004 film The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things. 
Her breakthrough came in 2006, when she released her directorial debut feature film, Blood Tea and Red String which took thirteen years to make. It received positive reviews from critics and won the Audience Award for Best Animation at the San Francisco Indiefest. It woud later be included on Rotten Tomatoes' 49 Best Stop-Motion Animated Movies of All Time.
She subsequently worked as a character designer in the 2012 Christmas television special Blake Shelton's Not So Family Christmas, directed the 2017 short film A Dream of Dolls Dancing, and worked as an animator on the 2018 short film CIVET. In 2019, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts category with Film - Video for her Field of Studyhttps://www.gf.org/fellows/christiane-cegavske/?fbclid=IwAR05tH0oG5JdC2-m8QVW6SPB92awz84jc0r_l3Hry-POtkk6jTV--4uWB-k.
Cegavske is currently working on her second directorial feature film, Seed in the Sand.
==Personal life==
Cegavske was raised near the Umpqua River in Oregonhttps://greatwomenanimators.com/christiane-cegavske. She has been making dolls, puppets, costumes, and stories at a young age. She learned how to sew from her mother and both grandmothers, spending a lot of time with her father helping him make things in the family garage. Cegavske spent most of her free time making dolls, doll clothes, doll houses, doll food among other items through the abundant supply of craft materials provided by her parents.
She attended the San Francisco Art Institute to study art and painting, being admitted at 17, making her one of the youngest students to be enrolled there. While there, she saw Jan Švankmajer's Alice when she was 19 which became one of her earliest animation influenceshttps://christianecegavske.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/jan-svankmajer/. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting. 
==Trivia==
*She cites Leonora Carington, Leonor Fini, Jan Švankmajer, Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Frida Khalo, Christine Shields, Jason Mecier, Edward Munch, Aubrey Beardsley, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti as influences. 
*Her ancestry includes Czech and Polish, the former of which is fitting since her biggest influence Jan Švankmajer is Czech himselfhttps://www.facebook.com/messages/t/113331288693278.
==References==
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