Bio:

Your pal Mo Willems' checkered past includes sporadic employment as
an animator, stand-up comic, radio commentator, ceramicist, and
bubble gum card painter. After a stint in television (during which
time he garnered six Emmy Awards for his writing on Sesame Street,
created Cartoon Network's Sheep in the Big City, head-wrote CNís
Codename: Kids Next Door, and animated well over 60 shorts for
festivals, HBO, Nickelodeon, and Sesame Street), Mo turned to picture
books. His debut effort, the New York Times bestseller Don't Let the
Pigeon Drive the Bus! was awarded a Caldecott Honor in 2004 and the
following year Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale (also a New York
Times bestseller) garnered a second Caldecott Honor, leading The New
York Times to dub Mo "the biggest new talent to emerge thus far in
the 00's". Upcoming books include Leonardo the Terrible Monster and
Time to Say ëPleaseí! (a companion to his Entertainment Weekly book
of the week, Time to Pee!) Mo's doodles have been exhibited in
galleries and museums across the nation including the Museum of
Television and Radio and the Chicago Art Institute, and his 9-11
inspired comix story (for DC Comics) resides in the Library of
Congress' permanent collection. He is currently working on a chapter-
book about an Invisible Invention Machine and annotating a cartoon
journal documenting his year-long backpacking trip around the world
in 1990-91. Mo lives with his family in Brooklyn, New York. Among his
achievements is getting his daughter to laugh at one of his dumb jokes.

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	Life directed by Moe Willems USA, Animation, 1999, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:00:00 A list of animators longer than your forearm was brought together by Mo Willems for something that might be termed the Lollapalooza of animation. Look closely and see if you can spot Bill Plympton's wor... more info
	The Man Who Yelled directed by Moe Willems USA, Animation, 1999, Color, Magnetic Stereo, 00:00:00 A comic, animated short that follows the career of a man who yells in public, and the career of the man who makes that man's career. Anyone out there have a synonym for "career" that I can borrow?... more info

Compilations containing The Man Who Yelled
	Commercial DVD Avoid Eye Contact Volume II (MC-519) Best of NYC Independent Animation	2005	Available from the Microcinema DVD Store
Compilations containing Life
	Commercial DVD Avoid Eye Contact Volume II (MC-519) Best of NYC Independent Animation	2005	Available from the Microcinema DVD Store

None of this person's films have ever been screened

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