WILLIAM SALAZAR, DIRECTOR

Director William Salazar recently completed production

on the short film “Bird Karma.” For the past 20-plus

years, Salazar has been an integral part of

the DreamWorks family, going all the way back to the

studio’s critically acclaimed film “The Prince of Egypt,”

where he worked as a supervising animator. Over the

years, Salazar has worked as a supervising animator

and/or character animator on a number of films,

including “Kung Fu Panda 2,” “Monsters vs. Aliens,”

“Over the Hedge,” “Madagascar” and “Spirit: Stallion of

the Cimarron.”

Salazar began his career as an animator in 1991, working

for Steven Spielberg’s Amblimation on the films “An

American Tail: Fievel Goes West,” “We’re Back! A

Dinosaur’s Story” and “Balto.”

Born on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica,

Salazar studied art at Ecole des Beaux Arts in

Angoulême, France, and animation film studies at the

Gobelins, L’Ecole de L’Image.