Janet Perlman

Biography

Janet Laurie Perlman is a Canadian animator and children's book author and illustrator whose work includes the short film The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 54th Academy Awards and received a Parents' Choice Award. Her 13 short films have received 60 awards to date.

Directed

1. Why Me? (1978) — Director
2. The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin (1981) — Director
3. Penguins Behind Bars (2003) — Director
4. Dinner For Two (1996) — Director
5. Monsieur Pug (2014) — Director
6. My Favorite Things That I Love (1994) — Director
7. Lady Fishbourne's Complete Guide to Better Table Manners (1976) — Director
8. Children First! (1996) — Director
9. Invasion of the Space Lobsters (2005) — Director
10. Bully Dance (2000) — Director
11. Sorry Film Not Ready (2010) — Director
12. Poets on Film No. 2 (1977) — Director
13. Poets on Film No. 1 (1977) — Director
14. Hot Seat (2008) — Director
15. The Girl with the Red Beret (2023) — Director
16. The Elephant (1982) — Director
17. The One-Minute Memoir (2020) — Director
18. Beatbox Anima Mundi 2019 (2019) — Director
19. Let’s Play Like It’s 1949 (2016) — Director
20. I Want To Go Home (2013) — Director
21. Egg (2010) — Director
22. King Kong vs. Pinocchio (2025) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Spinnolio (1977) — Lady/Blue Fairy
2. Six: Inside Hothouse 5 (2008) — Self
3. Inside the Hothouse 2 (2004)