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Rose Martin
Martin Rose has contributed creatively to auteur animation projects at the National Film Board for two decades. As a producer, he was involved with How People Got Fire, The Trembling Veil of Bones, and Animate Everything.
He directed Trawna tuh Belvul, a short film produced by Svend-Erik Eriksen. The film is an interpretation of a sound poem written and performed by the noted Canadian poet Earle Birney, and depicts a train and its array of occupants traveling between Toronto and Belleville, Ontario. The animation was created with cut-out paper puppets and filmed on a multi-plane camera. Exhibited internationally, the film opened the 1994 Ottawa International Animation Festival, and won a Silver Plaque for Short Subject at the Chicago International Film Festival and Best Animation at the Vancouver International Film Festival.
Martin has participated with many other animation productions. They include Joe, a 5-minute film directed by Jill Haras at the NFB Pacific & Yukon Centre, and When the Day Breaks. Produced at the NFB Animation Studio in Montreal, When the Day Breaks is a highly-acclaimed work created by Wendy Tilby and Amanda Forbis.
In addition to his projects at the NFB, Martin Rose is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design & Dynamic Media at the Emily Carr University of Art & Design, where he has taught animation for 15 years.
