A Montreal native, Neil Affleck is a Toronto based filmmaker, actor, teacher and musician. He apprenticed as an animator at the National Film Board of Canada, earned his BFA at the UCLA School of Film and Television, then worked for upwards of twelve years in Los Angeles on diverse projects such as The Simpsons, Rocko’s Modern World and Sacajawea. He returned to Canada in 2001 and has worked as a part-time faculty member at the Seneca College Animation Arts since 2015.