It's hard to tell just from looking at him, but Peter Ramsey, director of the new animated film Rise of the Guardians, is a minority in Hollywood. To get where he is today, he has had to overcome prejudices and unspoken stereotypes about his people: storyboard artists.
Storyboard artists aren't very high on the moviemaking food chain. They draw a screenplay frame by frame, a bit like a comic strip. There is no storyboarding Oscar. One of the animation awards is given for storyboarding; they're called Annies, as if they were given to orphans.
Ramsey, who has never directed a major...
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