Amanda Bonaiuto is an animator and artist originally from Massachusetts. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Stuttgart Festival of Animated Films, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ottawa International Animation Festival, Slamdance, Pictoplasma, and more. She is a 2017 Princess Grace Honoraria in Film, a 2013 recipient of the St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award, 2013 finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in Film & Video, and a 2010 recipient of the Springborn Fellowship. She graduated with an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2018.