Borenstein worked in the independent animation field in the 1970s before joining the National Film Board of Canada in the 1980s,[1] culminating in the short animated documentary The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1992) about her father, painter Sam Borenstein, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Documentary at the 65th Academy Awards.
She began free-lancing at the National Film Board of Canada in 1976 when she created Traveller's Palm, a visualization of the poem by P.K.
[3] She is the company officer of Illumination Animation Inc., an animation company based in Montreal and active since 1994[9] that has produced several of her films including Mother's Colours (2011), One Divided by Two: Kids and Divorce (1997) and Lida Moser Photographer (2018).
[citation needed] From 1984 to 2008, Borenstein was a part-time professor in film animation at Concordia University.
It includes interviews with her mother, Judith; archival material; and a combination of Borenstein's original animation, reproductions of her father's work, and time-lapse sequences taking place in Montreal and the Laurentian Mountains.