Arna Selznick

Arna Selznick
Residence	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Occupation	Animation crewmember
Years active	1980s–present
Employer	Nelvana (1980s)
Known for	Directing The Care Bears Movie (1985)
Spouse(s)	John van Bruggen
Children	Max Douglas
Website	dancingmonkeys

Arna Selznick is a Canadian director and artist, known for directing Nelvana's 1985 animated film The Care Bears Movie. Arna owns and operates a studio called Dancingmonkeys with her husband/partner John van Bruggen.

Selznick completed two years, 2014- 2016 as a key member of the story team of the CG animated feature film, The Nut Job 2, produced in Toronto by Toonbox Entertainment. She is currently directing a CG animated featurette for Corus's Nelvana, titled The Most Magnificent Thing, based on the popular children's book by Ashley Spires.

Selznick began her career at Toronto's Nelvana studio, participating in several efforts such as layout artist on Rock & Rule, story supervisor on Inspector Gadget and director on Strawberry Shortcake and the Baby Without a Name. There, she met future husband John van Bruggen. She moved on to direct The Care Bears Movie, released in 1985 by the Samuel Goldwyn Company in the United States, and Astral Films and Criterion Pictures Corporation in Canada. The film won Canada's Golden Reel Award for highest-grossing local production in 1985, with the Canadian gross of $22,934,622.00. Quite remarkable, since children's admission at the time was about $3.50 or less. At the time of that film's release, Arna was probably only the third woman to direct an animated feature (after Lotte Reiniger of 1927's The Adventures of Prince Achmed, and Joy Batchelor of 1954's Animal Farm). Selznick was part of the layout unit on the next two Care Bears films, A New Generation (1986) and Adventure in Wonderland (1987), and was also a story artist on Wonderland.

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