Signe Baumane was born in Latvia, and lived there until she was 18. She then moved to Moscow to study Philosophy. There Baumane obtained a BA in Philosophy as well as a Russian husband. She divorced fairly soon, but before that in 1987 her son Haralds was born. In 1989 Signe started to work in Rigašs Animated Film Studio as a cell painter and part time animator. In 1991, she got her first chance to make a film on Latvian Government Grant . In 1993 she got her second chance to make a film. In 1995 - her third. By 1995 the animator was tired of waiting and fighting for Government grants, so in September she left for New York with three of her Latvian films tucked under her belt, looking for independence. In New York she quickly found the best possible teacher of Animated Independence - Bill Plympton, in whose studio Signe started to work in January 1996. Baumane worked on Plymptons 3 features and countless shorts and learned how an independent animation studio works. In 1998 Signe made her first animated film on American soil and since then She has been trying to produce films regularly.
DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY:
-2002 Woman
-2002 Five Fucking Fables *Included on "Avoid Eye Contact"
-2001 Natasha
-1999 The Threatened One
-1998 Love Story *Included on "Avoid Eye Contact"
-1995 The Gold of the Tigers
-1993 Tiny Shoes
-1991 The Witch and the Cow
To contact Signe Baumane, please write to signe69@mac.com
Or go to her personal website, located at www.signebaumane.com.
