Charles Bonifacio

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Charles Bonifacio is a Canadian animator who worked on Nelvana productions such as Rock and Rule, Inspector Gadget, Star Wars: Ewoks, the Care Bears television series and the first two Care Bears movies of the 1980s. He was director of animation on The Care Bears Movie{{cite journal| last = Urquhart| first = Peter| title =You should know something—anything—about this movie. You paid for it| journal = Canadian Journal of Film Studies| volume = 12| issue = 3| pages = 65–80| publisher = Film Studies Association of Canada| date = Fall 2003| doi = 10.3138/cjfs.12.2.65}} and on Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation.{{cite news| last =Canby| first =Vincent| title =Screen: Care Bears in a sequel| page =C8| work=The New York Times| date =1986-03-21| url =https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9A0DEFDF113AF932A15750C0A960948260&oref=slogin| access-date =2008-01-28 }} In the 1990s, he worked on FernGully: The Last Rainforest and Disney's Mulan.

Bonifacio worked on other animated films and specials including The Land Before Time, Rock-a-Doodle, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Once Upon a Forest, A Cosmic Christmas, all three early films of Strawberry Shortcake, Watership Down (uncredited), Easter Fever, Intergalactic Thanksgiving, The Devil and Daniel Mouse, Romie-0 and Julie-8 and Tarzan II.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Charlie taught classical animation at Sheridan College.{{cite news| title =Ontario Colleges: 25 years: Courses in demand for a reason – From helicopters to Hollywood, specialized courses find a niche and graduates find jobs | page =C9| newspaper =The Globe and Mail| date =1992-09-11}} Clive A. Smith, one of Nelvana's founders, recruited Bonifacio from Sheridan College among a host of young animators from that institution, one of the few animation schools in the world at the time.{{cite magazine| last =Glassman| first =Marc| title =Clive Smith and his amazing dancing bear| magazine =Playback| date =2001-12-19| url =http://www.playbackmag.com/articles/magazine/20011219/csmith.html | access-date =2008-01-28 }}

Bonifacio has also worked on the Disney animated films The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, Return to Never Land, Tarzan II{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} and Brother Bear 2.