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Born in Buckingham, Quebec in 1964, Tali studied graphic arts at Dawson College in Montreal. After travelling in France, she decided to go back to school and enrolled in the Arts and Communication program at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse and then at the School of Fine Arts in Perpignan.
Before completing her studies, Tali came back to Montreal and worked with mentally disabled people. During this time, she did some illustration, graphic design and cartoon work. Circumstances brought her into contact with the National Film Board of Canada, which encouraged her to try her hand at animation. With the NFB's support, she made a one-minute animated film, wrote a script and used it as her submission to the Cinéaste recherché(e) competition held by the NFB's French Animation Studio. She won the competition in 1994, giving her the opportunity to direct her first animated short. Under the Weather (1997), a humorous film with an environmental message, was made using drawings photocopied onto cels and already revealed a strong personal style.
In 2002, Tali finished work on her second short, Pirouette. With biting wit, the filmmaker examines the distance between modern consumers and the origins of our food, a distance so great we often forget it was once alive. Her extraordinary characters and their bizarre actions both charm and repel, leaving no one indifferent.
Tali is now working on her next animated short, La famille poule, to be released in January 2006.
