DIRECTORS | Animattikon

Pejman Alipour
Director of
Where the Winds Die

Pejman Alipour is a director, animator, illustrator and cartoonist from Iran. He holds an MA in directing Animation from Tehran Art University. He currently lives Mahabad, Iran.
Short animated films:
Cold war (2000), Small heart (2005), I don't know the way my house (2006), Where the winds die (2021)
TV series animation:
INJORIYEH1(2009-2010), ASAL ABAD (2010), INJORIYEH2(2011), ADI and BODI (2011-2012)(only producer and writer), HAMIN HALA, HAMIN FARDA1 (2017-2018), HAMIN HALA, HAMIN FARDA2 (2018-2019), INJORIYEH3(2020)

Lilit Altunyan
Director of
When I am sad

Lilit Altunyan had local and international exhibitions as a visual artist. As an author-illustrator she published THE BLUE FOX, THE MUSICIAN MONSTER picture books. In 2019 she became a laureate of Children’s Writers and Illustrators’ Competition Armenia receiving two prizes. In 2020 she was included in IBBY Honour list.

A debut project WHEN I AM SAD by Lilit Altunyan was the winner of ANIMATION DU MONDE in Reanimania IAFF 2018 and won Folimage Co-production Award in MIFA Pitches, Annecy IAFF 2019. It became the
first Armenia/France co-production in animation. The film was selected to have the World Premiere in the Official Competition at Anim’est Bucharest International Animation Festival (Romania) in October 2021. It is already officially selected by many festivals including CLERMONT - FERRAND and OBERHOUSEN ISFF-s, BUCHEON IAFF and ANIMAFEST ZAGREB.

Lauren Ambry, Ella McShortall and Olivia Tang
Directors of
Creatures of the Night

Lauren Ambry, Ella McShortall and Olivia Tang are students in the Bachelor of Design (Animation) course at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia

Marios Andreou
Director of
From Doubters to Believers

His name is Marios Andreou and he is a 20 year old student who studies at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). He is originally from Nicosia, Cyprus but now he lives in Limassol where he studies. He is a graphic designer student but also loves animating. His love for animation shows in this film. He spent so much time directing and animating it. His work has been recognized by several graphic arts professors in an exhibition that was held in 2017 in Nicosia.

Bjarne Anmarkrud
Director of
ADRA

Bjarne is an Animation Director and Senior Animator at Animaskin. Bjarne graduated from Volda University College in 2008 with a B.A. in animation. He Has has since then worked on a multitude of highly acclaimed projects for various studios. He is a traditional animator who excels in character animation. Since 2014 Bjarne has been working as a Director and Animator at Animaskin.

Jacob Arenber
Director of
Hypo-gravitation

Jacob Arenber was born in Moscow in 1986 and immigrated to Israel when he was 5 with his family. Today he lives in Jerusalem, married, and the father of a two-month-old baby. He is a graduate of the Sam Spiegel Film School, with a master's degree in educational psychology. He works as an educational psychologist and a middle school teacher, and is currently a student in the International Documentary Film Program at Tel Aviv University. Hypo-gravitation is the first animated movie he directs.

Carlos Azcuaga Hernandez and
Lucas Ricoy
Directors of
First Day

Lucas Ricoy is an illustrator, rigger and animator living in Mexico City since 2013. He studied Fine Arts at University of Vigo and has a Masters in Animation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. His work includes short films, TV series and advertising projects, and he has specialized in illustration and CG animation for educational content to be presented in museums through Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications.

Carlos Azcuaga Hernández is an animator, professor and audiovisual producer living in Mexico City. He studied Communications at Ibero and has a Masters in Animation from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. In 2012 he co-directed the acclaimed children's TV series "Migropolis". Since 2013 he runs the independent studio MICUFILM. His work include "Fuimos Colores" for Canal 22, the TV series "El Show del Dr. Gecko", the documentary "Nosotros" on the 2017 earthquake and "El Desfile de los Ausentes", an internationally awarded short film for IMCINE.

Pejman Alipour Director of Where the Winds Die

Lilit Altunyan Director of When I am sad

Lauren Ambry, Ella McShortall and Olivia Tang Directors of Creatures of the Night

Marios Andreou Director of From Doubters to Believers

Bjarne Anmarkrud Director of ADRA

Jacob Arenber Director of Hypo-gravitation

Carlos Azcuaga Hernandez and Lucas Ricoy Directors of First Day

India Barnardo Director of Cat and Moth

Jean-Guillaume Bastien Director of Remote Desktop Animations

Christophe Bouchard Director of Tall Order

Fabio Catalano, Alex Cattabriga and Matteo Ferrari Directors of Hanged Man's Revenge

Alexandra Charalambous Director of Sign your X on the Line

Georgiana Chiripuci Director of Suicidal Thoughts 3

Christoph Büttner Director of In his Mercy

Myria Christophini Director of Love Letter to Glasgow

Shaun Clark Director of

Eve Constantinou Director of Batman the Handyman

Martha Constantinou Director of In the Zone

Ambrozy Danko Director of Shopping Sunday

Débora Mendes, Elmano Diogo Directors of Rising in a Spiral

Nelson Fernandes Director of Us

Kalia Foinikaridou Director of 'Tis Time

Paolo Gaudio Director of The Black ReCat

Mohamed Ghazala Director of The Pyramid

Ori Goldberg Director of Don't Die on Me!

Shoko Hara Director of Just a Guy

Emma Holzapfel and Kevin Koch Directors of Blessing in Disguise

Maria-Katerina Ieridou Director of Water Film

Chaerin Im Director of Eyes and Horns

Lyza Jarvis Cristo Madissoo, Maria Rakitina and Kaimar Lomp Directors of Hit the Nail on the Head

Jinkyu Jeon Director of The House of Loss

Rohit Karandadi Director of Modo da Vida - A Goan Sketchbook

Kim Soyeon Director of New Friend

Sergio Kotsovoulos Director of Echo

Jonathan Laskar Director of The Record

Timon Leder Director of

Shuo liu Director of The Outsider

Elena Madrid Director of Lovely Rita

Dominik Nowak Director of The Incident

Ofer Winter and Shimon Engel Directors of Windfall and Remainder

Anastasia Papadopoulou Director of Elevator Alone

Evgeniya Papina, Hurshida Sherkulova and Surayyo Tashpulatova Directors of Moments

Paschalis Paschalis Director of Sunny Side Up

Clémence Pica Rogge Director of Pore

Despo Potamou Director of Thin Air

Stella Raith Director of Avant Card

Carol Ratajczak and Tobias Trebeljahr Directors of Mulm

Alexia Roider Director of Figures in Red

Ale Romero Director of Volver a enloquecer

Anya Ru and Masha Rumyantseva Directors of Papa is Big, I am Small

Yulia Ruditskaya Director of The Waltz

Saçan Ilgin Director of In the Woods

Christina Sachpazidou Director of Cycle

Ahmad Saleh Director of

Bianca Scali Director of

Mona A. Shahi Director of

Dimitris Simou Director of

Malte Stein Director of

Natali Touloupou Director of

Julian Vargas Director of

Zhiheng Wang Director of

Niklas Wolff Director of

Dan (Demi) Wu Director of

Han Yang Director of

Dante Zaballa Director of

Zaynutdinova Malikakhon Director of

Pejman Alipour
Director of
Where the Winds Die

Lilit Altunyan
Director of
When I am sad

Lauren Ambry, Ella McShortall and Olivia Tang
Directors of
Creatures of the Night

Marios Andreou
Director of
From Doubters to Believers

Bjarne Anmarkrud
Director of
ADRA

Jacob Arenber
Director of
Hypo-gravitation

Carlos Azcuaga Hernandez and
Lucas Ricoy
Directors of
First Day

India Barnardo
Director of
Cat and Moth

Jean-Guillaume Bastien
Director of
Remote Desktop Animations

Christophe Bouchard
Director of
Tall Order

Fabio Catalano,
Alex Cattabriga and Matteo Ferrari
Directors of
Hanged Man's Revenge

Alexandra Charalambous
Director of
Sign your X on the Line

Georgiana Chiripuci
Director of
Suicidal Thoughts 3

Christoph Büttner
Director of
In his Mercy

Myria Christophini
Director of
Love Letter to Glasgow

Shaun Clark
Director of

Eve Constantinou
Director of
Batman the Handyman

Martha Constantinou
Director of
In the Zone

Ambrozy Danko
Director of
Shopping Sunday

Débora Mendes, Elmano Diogo
Directors of
Rising in a Spiral

Nelson Fernandes
Director of
Us

Kalia Foinikaridou
Director of
'Tis Time

Paolo Gaudio
Director of
The Black ReCat

Mohamed Ghazala
Director of
The Pyramid

Ori Goldberg
Director of
Don't Die on Me!

Shoko Hara
Director of
Just a Guy

Emma Holzapfel and Kevin Koch
Directors of
Blessing in Disguise

Maria-Katerina Ieridou
Director of
Water Film

Chaerin Im
Director of
Eyes and Horns

Lyza Jarvis Cristo Madissoo, Maria Rakitina and Kaimar Lomp
Directors of
Hit the Nail on the Head

Jinkyu Jeon
Director of
The House of Loss

Rohit Karandadi
Director of
Modo da Vida - A Goan Sketchbook

Kim Soyeon
Director of
New Friend

Sergio Kotsovoulos
Director of
Echo

Jonathan Laskar
Director of
The Record

Timon Leder
Director of

Shuo liu
Director of
The Outsider

Elena Madrid
Director of
Lovely Rita

Dominik Nowak
Director of
The Incident

Ofer Winter and
Shimon Engel
Directors of
Windfall and
Remainder

Anastasia Papadopoulou
Director of
Elevator Alone

Evgeniya Papina, Hurshida Sherkulova and
Surayyo Tashpulatova
Directors of Moments

Paschalis Paschalis
Director of
Sunny Side Up

Clémence Pica Rogge
Director of Pore

Despo Potamou
Director of
Thin Air

Stella Raith
Director of
Avant Card

Carol Ratajczak and
Tobias Trebeljahr
Directors of
Mulm

Alexia Roider
Director of
Figures in Red

Ale Romero
Director of
Volver a enloquecer

Anya Ru and
Masha Rumyantseva
Directors of
Papa is Big, I am Small

Yulia Ruditskaya
Director of
The Waltz

Saçan Ilgin
Director of
In the Woods

Christina Sachpazidou
Director of
Cycle

Ahmad Saleh
Director of

Bianca Scali
Director of

Mona A. Shahi
Director of

Dimitris Simou
Director of

Malte Stein
Director of

Natali Touloupou
Director of

Julian Vargas
Director of

Zhiheng Wang
Director of

Niklas Wolff
Director of

Dan (Demi) Wu
Director of

Han Yang
Director of

Dante Zaballa
Director of

Zaynutdinova Malikakhon
Director of