Ann Marie Fleming

Ann Marie Fleming
Born	1962 Okinawa, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
Residence	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Alma mater	The University of British Columbia (UBC)
Years active	1987-present
Website	www.sleepydogfilms.com/

Ann Marie Fleming is an independent Asian-Canadian filmmaker, writer, and visual artist. She was born in Okinawa, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, in 1962 and is of Chinese and Australian parentage. She is also the great-granddaughter of the Chinese magician, acrobat and vaudeville performer Long Tack Sam and is perhaps best known for the animated biographical film, The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (2003), which won Best Documentary at the San Diego Asian Film Festival and the Victoria Independent Film Festival. She has her own animation company, Sleepy Dog Films, and is currently working on her next animated feature film, Window Horses (2016).

Fleming has a B.A. in English (Hon) from the University of British Columbia in 1984, and with a B.F.A. (Diploma in animation) from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and the Open University in 1989. Later, she did an M.F.A. at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts in 1992.