Cecile Fountain-Jardim is an award-winning American animator, filmmaker + illustrator based between London and New York. With a practice centered around storytelling through image, she works predominantly in digital drawing and frame-by-frame animation, a blend of both traditional and stop-motion. Her work is often heartfelt, aesthetically playful, and inspired by the concept of ‘wabi-sabi’, or a focus on imperfection. It is through this focus on the imperfect and playful that she explores the tension between the lighthearted and the serious, often pairing colorful, tactile visuals with the deeply emotional stories she tells. Through her pieces, she investigates themes such as nostalgia, memory, and speculated realities to create and share human-centered narratives which reflect the commonalities in our respective experiences in light and accessible ways.

Cecile’s latest film, Doug + Me, received the 2026 Jury Award for Outstanding Documentary Short at Frameline50, the 2026 Palmare for Best Graduation Short Film at the Imaginaria International Animated Film Festival, and the Best Anidoc award at Animest. She holds an MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art and her films have been screened at venues such as the British Film Institute and the BBC Television Centre in London.