Aubry Mintz

Director of the School of Art, California State University Long Beach

Aubry Mintz has worked as a feature animator at Industrial Light and Magic and Square USA. Mintz is an award winning freelance animation director for clients such as Smirnoff, McDonalds, MuchMusic, General Mills and the Canadian rock band Rush.

He produced the animated pilot "Airship Dracula" for Rides TV with the Canadian rock group The Sadies and Juno winning animation director Michael Roberts, and Directed a short animated film “Nothing to Say” narrated by celebrity Danny Aiello and co-produced by the Oscar award winning Seneca Institute in Canada. With official selections at 22 festivals (including Oscar qualifying Edmonton International Film Festival and Tirana International Film Festival) and winning awards at Palm Springs International Animation Festival, Anchorage Film Festival, NFMLA and Canada Shorts.

Mintz is also co-author for the Focal Press book “Ideas for the Animated Short 2nd Edition” and has presented his storytelling findings at film festivals to packed audiences throughout the US and Canada and frequently does presentations on integrated storytelling, most recently at Disney Feature Animation, CTNX, Blue Sky Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation. He has also recently appeared as a guest host on TV's Turner Classic Movies (TCM) with Ellen Besen for a 4-hour program consulting on the animated short films from the National Film Board of Canada.

Mintz is currently a Full Professor and Director of the School of Art at California State University Long Beach and is on the board of Directors for the prestigious non-profit organization ASIFA-Hollywood.