Bekky O'Neil

bekky O'Neil (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist, animator, writer, director & producer based in Northumberland County, Ontario. She is a graduate of the Interdisciplinary Masters in Art, Media & Design at OCAD University with a focus on Animated Documentary and Sustainable Agriculture, and holds a BFA in Playwrighting and a second BFA in Film Animation from Concordia University.

bekky is a part time Professor of Media Studies at Loyalist College in Belleville, and a sessional instructor in the Experimental Animation program at OCAD University in Toronto.

Currently bekky is developing a graphic novel about her adventures moving from Montreal to a farm in rural Ontario titled: Bumblefoot, or Twelve Ways to Kill a Duck. She is in production for her next animated documentary a mixed media project with the working title: “My Life as a Virtual Companion,” and in pre-production on an animated documentary “Kiska: The World’s Loneliest Orca.”

bekky co-founded Cardboard Reality Farm & Studio where she collaborated with her partner on making films, cultivating permaculture solutions to the question of regenerative agriculture, and growing flowers from 2015 - 2024.

bekky’s films have played and garnered awards at festivals around the world. Her work has been funded by the Canada Council for the Arts & The Ontario Arts Council.

bekky is passionate about ecology, preserving biodiversity, and believes that good art can inspire positive social change. She enjoys building puppets and was the founder and Artistic Director of Quality Slippers Productions, a theatre company specializing in multidisciplinary puppet plays that was active from 2005 to 2012 in Montréal and Toronto. bekky also cultivates practices in making inks, playing with toy cameras, and fixing typewriters.

When she isn't making art or digging in the dirt bekky spends her time with her epileptic Alaskan Malamute, Maple, four cats, & twenty-one Indian Runner Ducks.