janedavitt

Hi all, been forever since I posted but wanted to share this news.

Eleanor graduated Seneca this year and her final project there, which took all year, was making a 4 minute animated film, with a team. It was her concept and she directed.

It's gone on to win awards at film festivals across Canada and it's now live on YT.
Eleanor's currently working at Yowza Animation in Toronto, sharing an apartment with her sister Lauren, who's in her second year at the University of Toronto studding Classics (Greek and Roman lit and archeology.

Drawn to You

Young Emily didn’t see anything wrong with her drawing of two girls holding hands, but her mother saw otherwise and tore both the paper and her child’s heart in two. Little did they know, the drawings had come alive and are determined to reunite with one another across the vast bedroom of pages, no matter what risk comes their way. An adventurous and heartwarming tale, “Drawn to You” shows audiences both the struggles and joy that comes with being true to your heart, and not letting others tell you who to be.

Director/Writer: Eleanor Davitt

Seneca 2019

Mirror Mountain FIlm Festival 2019 - Official Selection
Mirror Mountain Film Festival 2019 - Best Film
Alberta International Women's Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection
Alberta International Women's Film Festival 2019 - Audience Choice Award
Hamilton Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection
Toronto Queer Film Festival 2019 - Official Selection

Asked Eleanor to do Transformers vid to theme of Mighty Machines (Prowl/Jazz 4eva!) She did. So funny.

http://tinyurl.com/jjezd5j

We're all hooked on those Robots in Disguise... My favorite iteration is Transformers Prime; brilliant animation. Working our way through the original G1 series. Very cheesy but fun.

Lat night was Eleanor's grad ceremony at Sheridan College. She got a diploma, with honors, in Visual Creative Arts and in Sept she starts animation at Seneca Uni.

So we all drove to Oakville. Eleanor needed to be in the robing room at 6.30, we needed to be in our seats at 7.15, and we arrived at 5.45 so we split up, E to meet with a friend who lives two mins from the college, us to shop in the vicinity.

At 6.40 get a frantic call from E; WRONG CAMPUS. She'd met another student in similar pickle and turns out we should've been 37km away by Square One Mall at the Living Arts Center.

It said LAC on printout but no address and E assumed it was part of the campus she didn't know.

NO. IT WASN'T.

Cue frantic dash, googling address, begging Garmin to find the bloody satellites. Got there at 7.01, dropped E off outside building (wrong building but not too far away from the place) and parked.

All went well in the end but stressful as heck.

And she got a job for the summer washing dishes in the local bar. Which is something and she's still earning steadily from sales on Redbubble.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/eleanorose123

Eleanor went to vote in the Canadian General Election tonight. She handed over proof of ID and the woman gave her a rueful smile and said, "Oh, darling, you have to be over eighteen to vote."

Through gritted teeth, Eleanor said, "I AM TWENTY."

She gets this all the time.

Eleanor's wonderful (biased? Me?) fan and original art can now be bought on mugs and T-shirts and things:

http://www.redbubble.com/people/eleanorose123

So cool!

Eleanor just drew this for a project at college; all the provinces and states as people. We're having fun guessing who is who :-)

This is the list: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. The three territories are Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon. I think she's done them as they'd look on a map...

Eleanor's high school just called; it's Commencement soon when all the kids come back and graduate and she is to be getting an award for her art so they want her there early.

Super excited. it's the Frank Panabaker Award for Arts and here's a bit about him (he was connected to the Group of Seven and went to her high school, Galt Collegiate Institute. Which looks like Hogwarts and has ghosts :-))):

http://gci.wrdsb.ca/sites/gci.wrdsb.ca/files/Frank%20Panabaker.pdf

Tonight is Eleanor's prom and I can close to shedding a tear or two as she drove off from the photoshoot in the park with her friends.

autobadgirl very kindly came over to do her makeup and wow. Just wow. She looked stunning; still my baby but so elegant looking.

So proud of her and what she's accomplished at high school, on the honor roll every time pretty much and soon off to Sheridan to begin her journey to becoming an animator (with luck).

Few photos under the cut of the shoot in the park. That strap showing in the first one is her purse not her bra :-)

( prom )

There was a meme a bit ago on Deviantart where you redrew something you did a while back. This was Eleanor's drawing in 2005 and now; what a difference!


( drawing )



It'd be kind of fun to do that with a drabble...something short, see if you'd tweak it or not. I have a feeling something I wrote the first year I was doing it could definitely be much improved, but I don't think it would be as dramatic a change.

Usually on a Saturday, Eleanor slouches out of bed late, occupies the computer chair and doesn't move from it until bedtime.

Today we woke to find she'd cleaned her bedroom, had breakfast, and, since it snowed, she offered to shovel the drive.

She just came back in and went up to change as she was hot and sweaty. Then came down to say she'd noticed the laundry basket was full, should she start off a load.

At this point I screamed, 'David! Alien possession alert!'

As I type this, she came in to say Mac had thrown up a hairball. I said I'd deal with it and she said, no, she'd take care of it.

Lauren is clinging to me and whimpering with fear.