Theodore Ushev first made a name as a poster and graphic designer before moving to Montreal in 1999. There he quickly gained a reputation as an animation filmmaker for the National Film Board of Canada, with fil hms such as Vertical, The Man who Waited, Tower Bawher, Tzartitza, Sor and Drux Flux (winner of the Canadian Film Institute Award for Best Canadian Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival).  In March 2011, he received the Genie Award for Best Animated Short for Lipsett Diaries, a short animated documentary about Arthur Lipsett.