Corrie Francis is a freelance animator, artist and photographer based in South Lake Tahoe, California.  Born in Massachusetts in 1979, she was transported to the Bay Area just after her 1^st birthday, where she grew up among the green and brown hills of the East Bay. Needing a change of palette, she headed to Dartmouth College where she convinced the deans and professors that majoring in animation is not a waste of an Ivy League education. Having received her dose of fall colors, winter whiteness and springtime mire, she traveled to Cameroon in 2002 to work with Wycliffe Bible Translators, creating illustrations for literacy publications and teaching art to children in remote villages. After 5 months of exploring jungles and savannahs, she returned to the urban jungles of Los Angeles to continue her studies at the University of Southern California. 

Unable to keep her feet on American soil for long, she took off for Aotearoa, known to the rest of the world as New Zealand, as a Fulbright Fellow. While there she tramped through the rugged backcountry researching her thesis film, an animated documentary about the wilderness experience. The kiwi wilderness nearly held her captive, but after 15 months she felt the need to reacquaint herself with her culture and so returned to Los Angeles to complete her studies.

 Now with an MFA in Animation and Digital Arts, Corrie is working and teaching in the Tahoe area. She has recently shifted her focus to documentary and is exploring how drawn images can imaginatively compliment documented reality. Corrie’s animation emphasizes the integration of digital and traditional mediums and a dialogue between technique and mediums. She has worked with sand, paint on glass, cut-outs and hand-drawn mediums. She enjoys wandering in and out of the world’s beautiful landscapes as she creates her films.