Mei Mei Leonard is a soon to be graduate of PNCA’s animated arts program. She loves nothing more than good storytelling in both the media she creates and consumes, and enjoys telling her own stories through comics and animation. Her work is often character driven, exploring themes of change and how one reacts to it.
Mei Mei has been interested in themes of growing up and becoming an adult since she was very young. As a child she would see and hear of what to expect when you become an adult, but hearing about something and actually living it are two wildly different things.
Her film Mindful is an attempt to visualize the uncertainty, fear, and stress young adults feel in this turbulent and ever changing phase of their lives. She felt it important this film be done at the end of her college career, when the first hand knowledge of these feelings was still fresh.