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Janet Perlman

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Also known as

Janet Laurie Perlman

Biography

Janet Laurie Perlman is a Canadian animator and children's book author and illustrator whose work includes the short film The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 54th Academy Awards and received a Parents' Choice Award. Her 13 short films have received 60 awards to date.

Known for

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

Penguins Behind Bars

Dinner For Two

Monsieur Pug

My Favorite Things That I Love

Lady Fishbourne's Complete Guide to Better Table Manners

Invasion of the Space Lobsters

Filmography

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2026

I Don’t Love You Anymore

Visual Effects (Animation)

2025

King Kong vs. Pinocchio

Directing (Director) Production (Producer) Writing (Writer)

2023

The Girl with the Red Beret

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

2021

Flowing Home

Visual Effects (Animation)

2020

The One-Minute Memoir

Directing (Director)

2019

Beatbox Anima Mundi 2019

Directing (Director)

2016

Let’s Play Like It’s 1949

Directing (Director)

I Like Girls

Visual Effects (Compositing Artist) Visual Effects (Animation)

2014

Monsieur Pug

Directing (Director)

2013

I Want To Go Home

Directing (Director)

Yellow Sticky Notes: Canadian Anijam

Visual Effects (Animation)

2011

Editing (Editor)

2010

Sorry Film Not Ready

Directing (Director)

Egg

Directing (Director)

2008

Directing (Director)

Six: Inside Hothouse 5

Acting (Self)

2005

Invasion of the Space Lobsters

Visual Effects (Animation) Writing (Writer) Directing (Director)

2004

Inside the Hothouse 2

2003

Penguins Behind Bars

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer) Writing (Storyboard) Visual Effects (Animation) Production (Producer)

2000

Bully Dance

Directing (Director)

1996

Dinner For Two

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer) Visual Effects (Animation) Art (Graphic Designer) Writing (Screenplay)

Children First!

Directing (Director)

1994

Bob's Birthday

Visual Effects (Animation)

My Favorite Things That I Love

Directing (Director)

1991

Pink Komkommer

Visual Effects (Animation)

1990

Karate Kids

Visual Effects (Color Designer) Art (Background Designer) Visual Effects (Animation)

1984

The Soldier's Tale

Visual Effects (Animation)

Visual Effects (Animation)

1982

The Elephant

Directing (Director) Writing (Writer)

1981

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

Directing (Director)

1979

Visual Effects (Animation)

1978

Directing (Director)