Born in Montreal, Peter Adamakos has made animation and live-action film a way of life. He created his first animation film at the age of ten, and by university; he headed a film-making group of 125 people making features, documentaries and shorts. He formed Disada Productions in 1971 and moved the company to Ottawa in the late 1990s, producing new animation and live-action productions. Exhibitions and film retrospectives include museums and cultural centers in Quebec City, New York, Toronto, Atlanta, Montreal, Tampa, Turkey, France, and Belgium. Peter has served three terms as President of the Society of Film Makers, the association grouping all film professionals, and has also served as Vice President of ASIFA Canada, been on the Board of the Genie Awards, the Advisory Board of the Federal Government for film, in addition testifying before Parliament's Committee on the Arts. He has written extensively on animation and film and continues to write regular articles. Peter wrote Canada's first comic strip to be syndicated across the country in both daily black and white and color weekend formats. He has taught animation in various schools in both Montreal and Ottawa and has been an animation instructor at the Ottawa School of Art since the Animation Certificate Program was launched in 1999.