Originally from Canada, Carolyn Gair is an award-winning filmmaker and owner of Bowling4Rhinos Productions in Los Angeles. She is a prolific and accomplished director, writer, and story artist, working with all the major studios, from Disney and Pixar to Paramount and Warner Bros. She is an Emmy Award winner and Annie Nominee. Her stop-motion films have won awards in festivals worldwide, including Best Animation, Best Children’s Short, Audience Favorite Award, and most recently, Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Animation Festival, 2023.

Carolyn graduated from Sheridan College, Ontario, with a degree in animation before her career took her to Los Angeles in the early ’90s, working for Warner Bros Studios as a story artist on Tiny Toons, Tasmania, Freakazoid, as well as The Animaniacs, for which she won an Emmy Award. She worked at Nickelodeon on Angry Beavers and Kim Possible for Walt Disney before ending up in feature animation on such projects as Tinkerbell, Rock Dog, Rumble, Free Birds, Hop, Despicable Me, and Angry Birds 2 before returning to WB to direct the feature film Scooby Doo and the Haunted Highrise.

Carolyn started experimenting with stop-motion in 2014 for Instagram and fell in love with the creative freedom. She started her stop-motion studio in 2018 with an eye to making longer content, eventually completing her full-length animated feature RETURN TO KELLOGG, and continues to work in stop-motion creating animated shorts, as well as commercial spots for Trader Joe’s.

As a veteran of the industry, Carolyn looks forward to giving back, providing guidance, and sharing knowledge with those who are new to the field.