Vancouver duo faced health scare while making Oscar-nominated 'Animal Behaviour'

TORONTO — Husband-and-wife filmmakers Alison Snowden and David Fine had almost finished their now-Oscar-nominated animated short “Animal Behaviour” when a health crisis sent them into a tailspin.
Snowden had contracted a virus that developed into a life-threatening lung infection and needed to undergo risky surgery in their home city of Vancouver in 2017.
The rare respiratory illness “ended up with me needing a double lung transplant,” Snowden recalled in a recent i