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Yvonne Eckersley
Yvonne Eckersley has been working in animation for 30 years, twenty of which as a senior lecturer in animation. Her films have been screened widely at animation festivals, including Annecy International Animation Festival, the London Film Festival, Sidney Animation Festival and Ottawa International Animation Festival. After working in London as a key animator, she founded Jackdaw Media in Liverpool with two other animators. The company specialized in working with schools, colleges and special interest groups to produce animations. In 1998 she gained a full-time post at Glyndwr University. Her personal animation is almost always autobiographical and her film, ‘Brush the teddy’s toes’, about her son’s developmental disability was commissioned by S4C. Having experienced first-hand the potential animation has to provide therapeutic benefits, her research has continued with this theme.