Angela Stempel

Written By Mike Ambs

Born in 1989 (San Francisco, CA) and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.

Angela earned her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) in Boston, and her BA in Art History from Tufts University in 2011. She was the recipient of the Dehn Fellowship for study abroad (Czech Republic) in 2010, and the Traveling Fellowship by SMFA in 2012.

Her films have screened at the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), Pesta Boneka Festival (Jogjakarta, Indonesia), and the REDCAT theater (Los Angeles). She recently graduated with an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts.

She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. 

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Heart Chakra
Heart Chakra

Mae's life is routinely disrupted by the advice from her online crystal healer and her devotion to horoscopes. Armed with healing crystals and numerology, Mae is ready to follow the predictions on an unexpected path to find her soulmate. A film by Angela Stempel.

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Love and Crystals: On Heart Chakra and a Heart in Animation

In director, writer, and animator Angela Stempel’s beautiful short film Heart Chakra, a young girl falls prey to the promises of a spiritual awakening and a direct path to the man of her dreams – so long as she aligns all her chakras just so, and utilizes the right set of crystals and numerology.

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Mike Ambs

I love to film things, tell stories, and read on the subway. I'm pretty sure blue whales are my power animal. 

http://mikeambs.com
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