- Her partner, 'Paul Gailiunas' was wounded in the attack which left her dead at their home in New Orleans. Their only son, Francis, was present, but uninjured in the attack.
- Received her BA in English at Harvard University and MFA in Film/Video: Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts.
- Her work has been shown at various festivals, including Ottawa International Animation, SpliceThis!, Ann Arbor, Vancouver Underground, Atlantic (Halifax) and Images (Toronto). She received the Lumiere Award from the New Orleans Film and Video Festival, Best Animation at the Calgary CSIF $100 Film Festival and the Futuroscope Award from the North Carolina Film and Video Festival. A founding member of the New Orleans Film Collective, she taught animation and handcrafted film workshops in the U.S. and Canada.
- Artist, activist, experimental filmmaker and animator who studied experimental animation at the California Institute of Arts. Also the author of "Recipes for Disaster: A Handcrafted Filmmaking Cookbook".
- Taught animation at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design after moving to Canada.
- Moved to New Orleans in 2001. Shot to death by an intruder during a break-in in her home, her doctor/musician husband was wounded.
- Niece of actors David Alastair Lewis and Rose Marie Perfect.
- Gave birth to her only child at age 34, a son Francis Pop Gailiunas on October 15, 2004. Child's father is her widowed husband, Paul Gailiunas.
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