BIO Jeanne Stern creates fantastical microcosms with a hybrid of film puppetry and animation. Her work has screened in a variety of festivals and galleries including Heather Henson's traveling film festival "Handmade Puppet Dreams," South by Southwest, Dallas PBS, and the Smithsonian. 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." 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. Born and raised in Massachusetts, Jeanne now lives in Austin where she works as an animator and teacher.