BIO Jeanne Stern creates miniature microcosms with dioramas and film puppetry. Her puppet film "Les Malaventures de Zut-Alors," about Siamese brother and sister Zut and Alors, screened at SXSW and is currently touring with Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams Film Festival. Jeanne recently had an art show at the Opera House called "Twitter Box," of film, drawings and dioramas. Josh Rios of Fluent Collaborative wrote: "Stern adapts her resources and abilities to the production style of early animation and children's shows. It is no surprise that [Les Malaventures de Zut-Alors] features both French protagonists and a knotty relationship situation that borders on Truffaut's Jules and Jim made for Sesame Street. "There is a quirky problem solving quality to the films that originates in the materials Stern chooses to construct her sets from; vintage books are transformed into kitchens, bears and umbrellas, mingled with crayon drawings and augmented teaching illustrations. Everything has a naive element that is reminiscent of an elementary school project tempered with the more adult concerns of movie production, an interplay of diverging media and collaboration." (http://www.fluentcollab.org) Jeanne received her BA from Connecticut College where she studied studio art and computer science. She recently completed her MFA in Film at UT, Austin. Jeanne currently resides in Austin, where you may find her playing accordion on her rolla-bolla with a bunch of gypsies.