(Cartoon image of Hulascope Studios)
[Janet, Judith and Felix as flowers]
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[Hulascope Pineapple]

HULASCOPE STUDIO is an animation company in Montréal, Québec. The two founders, Janet Perlman and Judith Gruber-Stitzer, are the core creative team. They have produced original animation for The National Film Board of Canada, Acme Filmworks, Oxygen and Cartoon Network.

[Picture of Janet]

JANET PERLMAN is an animation director and children's book author. Her animated films have received international acclaim, including an Oscar® nomination, an Emmy and many festival grand prizes. She has worked extensively with the National Film Board of Canada. Her films include The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin, Why Me?, Dinner for Two, Bully Dance, and My Favorite Things That I Love. Perlman's children's books, Cinderella Penguin, The Emperor Penguin's New Clothes and The Penguin and the Pea are published by Kids Can Press. Her latest book, The Delicious Bug, is not about a penguin, and will be published in 2009. Perlman has also taught animation at Harvard and at the Rhode Island School of Design.

[Picture of Judith]

JUDITH GRUBER-STITZER is a film composer and animation producer. As a composer she has scored over 80 TV shows and films. Most notably she scored the National Film Board of Canada's animated short When the Day Breaks, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, an Oscar® nomination as well as many other major festival awards. Recently her score for Georges Schwizgebel's award winning animated film, l'Homme sans ombre, won the Best Music prize at the Namur International Film Festival in Belgium. Among Gruber-Stitzer's live action scores are two films directed by Robert Altman, and additional music for the Sundance-nominated feature film, The Baroness and the Pig, that featured a score by Phillip Glass.

[Picture of Felix]

FELIX is a fine dog.

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