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Eileen O'Meara is a talented American artist who creates amazing animated films. She is well-known for her unique and experimental movies like Agnes Escapes from the Nursing Home, That Strange Person, and Panic Attack!. She also worked on a special cartoon for HBO and UNICEF called The Right to Express Yourself, which was part of the Cartoons for Children's Rights series.

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Eileen O'Meara, a talented animator.

Eileen O'Meara's Animation Journey

Eileen O'Meara has created and directed many animated short films and commercials for big companies. Some of her clients include HBO, Warner Home Video, Motown, Heal The Bay, Channel One, and WEA Latina.

Her independent short films, Agnes Escapes from the Nursing Home, That Strange Person, and Panic Attack!, have been shown in many famous places. These include the Sundance Film Festival, the BFI London Film Festival, and on TV channels like PBS, The Movie Channel, and Showtime.

Eileen O'Meara's work is also featured in books about animation and filmmaking. You can find her work in Get Animated! Creating Professional Cartoon Animation on your Home Computer by Tim Maloney and Making it Big in Shorts: The Ultimate Filmmakers Guide to Short Films by Kim Adelman.

Awards and Special Support

Eileen O'Meara has received several important awards and grants to help her create her films. A grant is like a special fund or award given to artists to support their creative projects.

She received the Media Arts Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts through the California Arts Council. She also got the Hollywood Film & Video Grant from the Women In Film Foundation. Another award she received was the Stephen Hunter Flick-Creative Cafe Post Production Grant. These awards show how much her work is valued in the film world.

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