Given the question: Facts:   - years active: 1984 -- present    - caption: stephanie angela maxwell      - image size: 150px    - birth place: california , u.s.    - occupation: filmmaker animator   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of stephanie maxwell .
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stephanie angela maxwell is an animator , filmmaker and professor in the school of film and animation at the rochester institute of technology .she specializes in hand-painted experimental abstract animation .her techniques include direct-on-film painting , motion painting , object animation , copier techniques , and live action manipulation .most of her works are collaborations with composers .stephanie maxwell 's works have been presented in many international festivals , including the northwest film forum , the downtown los angeles film festival , and the ottawa international animation festival .she was co-founder of the imagemovementsound festivals , an annual festival of collaborative productions by interdisciplinary artists .