-I am so proud of you was recently awarded the Grand Jury Award at  the Sundance Film Festival, Best Picture and Best Screenplay from the Fargo Film Festival, the Yoram Gross Award for Animation from Flickerfest in Australia, and the Golden Starfish from the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Don Hertzfeldt is an Academy Award nominee whose popular animated films have been featured in over a thousand film festivals and venues around the world.

Don was born in 1976 in California's Bay Area. He received B.A. in Film Studies from UC Santa Barbara in 1998, where he produced his first four animated films: Ah L'Amour, Genre. Lily and Jim, and Billy's Balloon, the latter receiving a nomination for the Short Film Palm D'Or at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.

His following film, Rejected, was nominated for an Oscar in 2001. In 2003, Don cocreated The Animation Show, a touring theatrical program of international animation, which he programmed with Mike Judge for its first three seasons. A retrospective anthology of Don's work, Bitter Films: Volume One, was released on DVD in 2006. Since 1995, his cartoons have collectively received over 150 international awards.

Don is currently on a sold-out 22 city theatrical tour in support of I am so proud of you. An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt presents a selection of his films, culminating in the regional premiere of I am so proud of you and a rare onstage interview.

Filmography:

I am so proud of you (2008)

Everything will be OK (2006)

The Meaning of Life (2005)

Rejected (2000)

Billy's Balloon (1998)

Lily and Jim (1997)

Genre (1996)

Ah, L'Amour (1995)

Awards

Best Picture Fargo Film Festival

Best Screenplay Fargo Film Festival

Golden starfish Award - Hamptons International Film Festival

Yoram Gross Award for Animation - Flickerfest, Australia

Platinum REMI Grand Prize - Worldfest Houston

Grand Jury Award - Florida Film Festival

Special Jury Award - Indipendent Film Festival of Boston

the Heart of Gold Award - Nevada City Film Festival

Best Film,  Youth Jury - Czrta Cinema, Rio de Janeiro

Best Short Film - Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival

Best Animated Film - Fantastic Fest, Austin TX

Best Narrative Film - ''Animation Block Party'', NYC

Best Animated Film - DeadCentre Film Festival, OK

Best Animated Film - Nashville Film Festival

Best Animated Film - Tallahassee Film Festival

Best Animated Film - Hardacre Film Festival

Best Animated Film - Macon Film Festival

Best Animated Film - Fargo Film Festival

Special Jury Award - Indie Memphis Film Festival

Second Place, Animation - Athens Film Festival

Special Mention - International Film Festival Etiuda & Anima, Krakow, Poland

Third Place Overall - ''Crisis of Mind'' Linoleum Animation Festival, Moscow, Russia

Special Jury Award for 'Original Form and Human Warmth''