Paul Driessen
was born in 1940 in Nijmegen. After studying grap-hics and illustration at the Art Aca-demy of Utrecht, he made his debut with an animation film at Cine-centrum in Hilversum. He re-ali-sed his first film upon his return to the Ne-ther-lands. He emigrated to Ca-nada in 1970, where he worked for the Cana-dian Film Board, realising several anima-tion -films. He illustrated a va-riety of children's books. Since 1967 he spends his time between Canada (working for the Canadian Film Board), the Nether-lands (making films for the Ministry of Culture) and Germany (teaching at the Art Aca-demy of Kassel).