Ann Sullivan, a longtime animator who worked on iconic Disney films including The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas and The Lion King, has died at 91 from complications due to Covid-19, according to multiple reports.
Sullivan passed away Monday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund (Mptf) nursing facility in Woodland Hills, California, making her the third resident at that nursing facility to die from coronavirus complications.
“There are good days and bad days. This was one of the bad days,” Mptf president and CEO Bob Beitcher told Deadline.
“I expect there will be more before we get through the tunnel. We’ve...
Sullivan passed away Monday at the Motion Picture and Television Fund (Mptf) nursing facility in Woodland Hills, California, making her the third resident at that nursing facility to die from coronavirus complications.
“There are good days and bad days. This was one of the bad days,” Mptf president and CEO Bob Beitcher told Deadline.
“I expect there will be more before we get through the tunnel. We’ve...
- 4/14/2020
- by Nicholas Rice
- PEOPLE.com
The Motion Picture and Television Fund announced on Monday that Ann Sullivan, a longtime animator for Walt Disney Studios, became the third person to die from coronavirus at the organization’s nursing facility in Woodland Hills. She was 91.
Born in Fargo, North Dakota, and trained at the Art Center, Sullivan first got a job at Disney in the animation paint lab in the 1950s before leaving to start a family of four children. In 1973, she reentered the animation world with a job at Hanna-Barbera before eventually returning to Disney in time to work on ink and paint for some of the most famous films of the Disney Renaissance, including “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King.” She remained at the studio until her retirement in the early 2000s, working on films like “Lilo & Stitch” and even working in computer animation shortly before retiring.
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Born in Fargo, North Dakota, and trained at the Art Center, Sullivan first got a job at Disney in the animation paint lab in the 1950s before leaving to start a family of four children. In 1973, she reentered the animation world with a job at Hanna-Barbera before eventually returning to Disney in time to work on ink and paint for some of the most famous films of the Disney Renaissance, including “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lion King.” She remained at the studio until her retirement in the early 2000s, working on films like “Lilo & Stitch” and even working in computer animation shortly before retiring.
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- 4/13/2020
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
A third resident at the Mptf’s skilled-nursing facility in Woodland Hills has died of complications from coronavirus, and 13 other residents have tested positive for the virus. Ten residents are currently being treated in the facilities’ isolation unit, and three others have been hospitalized. Eight staff members – primarily care-givers – have also tested positive.
The Mptf reported the first cases of Covid-19 on March 31, and six more on April 3.
Ann Sullivan, a longtime Disney animator, died today, having turned 91 on Friday. Two other residents – actor Allen Garfield, 80, and John Breier, 64, the husband of a longtime Iatse member – died last week.
“There are good days and bad days.
The Mptf reported the first cases of Covid-19 on March 31, and six more on April 3.
Ann Sullivan, a longtime Disney animator, died today, having turned 91 on Friday. Two other residents – actor Allen Garfield, 80, and John Breier, 64, the husband of a longtime Iatse member – died last week.
“There are good days and bad days.
- 4/13/2020
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Six weeks ago, Evan Glodell was in a funk. He’d made his filmmaking debut six years ago with micro-budget breakout “Bellflower,” in which he’d starred, written, directed, and produced through Coatwolf, his filmmaking collective. That film exploded at Sundance 2011, but now it seemed like all of his projects were stalled, again.
He wondered if he should have turned down an offer to wrangle VFX for Benh Zeitlin’s “Wendy,” another follow-up to a Sundance hit (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) made by a filmmaking collective; unlike his Coatwolf projects, that one was successfully winding its way to completion.
Then suddenly, everything turned around. Coatwolf’s second film, “Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins” produced, co-written, and starring Glodell, is close to locked and is ready for CAA to screen for buyers.
Their third, “Canary,” written, directed, produced, and starring Glodell, will hit the Cannes market to seek...
He wondered if he should have turned down an offer to wrangle VFX for Benh Zeitlin’s “Wendy,” another follow-up to a Sundance hit (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) made by a filmmaking collective; unlike his Coatwolf projects, that one was successfully winding its way to completion.
Then suddenly, everything turned around. Coatwolf’s second film, “Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins” produced, co-written, and starring Glodell, is close to locked and is ready for CAA to screen for buyers.
Their third, “Canary,” written, directed, produced, and starring Glodell, will hit the Cannes market to seek...
- 5/17/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Six weeks ago, Evan Glodell was in a funk. He’d made his filmmaking debut six years ago with micro-budget breakout “Bellflower,” in which he’d starred, written, directed, and produced through Coatwolf, his filmmaking collective. That film exploded at Sundance 2011, but now it seemed like all of his projects were stalled, again.
He wondered if he should have turned down an offer to wrangle VFX for Benh Zeitlin’s “Wendy,” another follow-up to a Sundance hit (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) made by a filmmaking collective; unlike his Coatwolf projects, that one was successfully winding its way to completion.
Then suddenly, everything turned around. Coatwolf’s second film, “Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins” produced, co-written, and starring Glodell, is close to locked and is ready for CAA to screen for buyers.
Their third, “Canary,” written, directed, produced, and starring Glodell, will hit the Cannes market to seek...
He wondered if he should have turned down an offer to wrangle VFX for Benh Zeitlin’s “Wendy,” another follow-up to a Sundance hit (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) made by a filmmaking collective; unlike his Coatwolf projects, that one was successfully winding its way to completion.
Then suddenly, everything turned around. Coatwolf’s second film, “Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins” produced, co-written, and starring Glodell, is close to locked and is ready for CAA to screen for buyers.
Their third, “Canary,” written, directed, produced, and starring Glodell, will hit the Cannes market to seek...
- 5/17/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Exclusive: CAA has hired Tristen Tuckfield as an agent in its Film Finance & Sales Group, where she will focus on domestic film sales from the agency’s Century City headquarters. Tuckfield moves from Millennium Entertainment, where she had been VP Acquisitions. There, she’d done a lot of work with CAA in numerous film projects and has helped spearhead Millennium’s elevation in the quality of projects they make. Tuckfield will essentially be replacing Dina Kuperstock, a key cog in CAA’s Film Finance & Sales Group domestic sales operation. She has left the industry and returned to school to focus on social work […]...
- 6/18/2014
- Deadline
Talent discovery is what film fests like Sundance and SXSW are all about. Yes, the sales boom that attended Toronto and Sundance continued to the Austin, Texas fest, which is usually not a distributor's market. But agents like CAA's Dina Kuperstock mainly go to Austin to seek and support young clients like Evan Glodell, writer-director of Bellflower. If Tiny Furniture's Lena Dunham was last year's SXSW it-girl (landing distribution, a Judd Apatow HBO series and a Scott Rudin development deal), even though Bellflower launched at Sundance, where it landed distributor Oscilloscope, Glodell was still the new SXSW filmmaker on the block. Many folks who missed Bellflower at Sundance caught up with it at SXSW, along with Zal Batmanglij's Sound of My Voice, which featured an ...
- 3/28/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
SXSW Film Festival producer Janet Pierson (middle) joined in Tuesday night for the End of the Film Conference/Opening of Music Conference party at a very crowded Maggie Mae's on 6th Street in downtown Austin following the Awards Ceremony at the nearby Austin Convention Center. iW ran into her hanging out with director/film critic/ blogger Aaron Hillis (and also runs DVD distribution company, Benten Films) as well as agent Dina Kuperstock (CAA).
- 3/17/2010
- Indiewire
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