Gaia Alari

Director of

Tethered

Gaia Alari, is a visual artist based in Milan, Italy. She collaborates with international music bands and labels, and with organizations to direct commercials in clay animation. In 2018 her debut short film “Happy” was officially selected for screening at several festivals: MicroActs London, 4th Athens Animation Marathon, Female Filmmakers Festival Berlin, Lisbon Film Rendezvous, Mirror Mountain Film Festival. Her second short form clay animation “Terminus” premiered at AVIFF Cannes (France) and was awarded the special “Prix AVIFF Incognito” in May, 2019. It was exhibited for Galerie Incognito at the Monnaie de Paris. Her animated music clip “I talk to the wind” for Dana Gavanski made it to the official selection of Sound Unseen film and music festival, 21st edition (in the 25 coolest film festival of the world list by MovieMaker Magazine).

Gil Alkabetz

Director of

Good and Better

1957 Born in Kibuz “Mashabei Sade” in Israel
1979 - 1983 Graphic Design studies in the “Bezalel“ Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem
1984 - 1995 Freelance animator and illustrator and animation and illustration teacher in different art schools in Israel
1995 - 2001 Independent film maker in Stuttgart, Germany
2002 Guest Professor in the Rocky Mountains College of Art and Design in Denver - Colorado, USA
2003 Guest Teacher in the School of Art and Design, Luzern, Switzerland
since 2004 Professor in the Film University Potsdam Babelsberg
2005-2009 Teacher in the Filmakademie BW
Free film maker

Marc Angele

Director of

Tobi and the Turbobus

Co-Director Marc Angele grew up in Zürich from the age of six. After completing his apprenticeship as a structural engineering draughtsman, he started working as a Lighting Artist for Raumgleiter where he supervised various Architectural Visualisations. In 2013, he switched his line of work to VFX and started as a 3D Artist and Compositor for Cloudscape GmbH. He has been studying Animation and Visual Effects at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since October 2014.

Marcel Barelli

Director of

In Nature

Marcel Barelli (1985, Lodrino, Switzerland) is an animation filmmaker. Passionate about animals and nature, He develops all his projects around these themes. His short films have been selected in hundreds of international film festivals and won numerous awards around the world. He lives in Geneva with his wife and 2 children.

Teresa Baroet

Director of

Cante

Teresa Baroet is a Portuguese animator with a photography background. She has a bachelor degree in photography in London and recently finished a Master in Animation at Tallinn Academy of Arts.

Star Bazancir

Director of

De Berde

Star Bazancir is a part time independent animation filmmaker living in Stockholm. He is credited for the animated short film Conversation (2018).

Sebastien Béranger

Co-director of

The Shudder flies away with open arms, Farewell

The duet formed by Celia Eid & Sébastien Béranger is based on the fragile balance between the eye and the ear. In a world where the image is predominant, sound plays an essential role. Transversality is essential. The relationship between the pictorial gesture and the musical gesture, the relationship between matter, hand work and digital techniques are at the heart of their approach. As in chamber music, Celia Eid & Sébastien Béranger form a duet, that meens a "singular instrument" where all the components offer a unique object.

This duality is particularly evident in Celia Eid's work. Specializing in the relationship between visual animation and contemporary music, Celia's work today turns to video art, which combines these two disciplines. Born in Brazil, Celia Eid is a graduate of the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo. For several years, she was an illustrator and collaborated with several Brazilian publishing houses and newspapers. Her treatment of animation has led her to regularly hold creative workshops at the Forum des Images in Paris. Her work has been presented at several international festivals. In 2005 she won the prize for best interactive film at the Fluxus festival.

For his part, Sébastien Béranger is a multiform composer who multiplies his approaches to music and sound. Trained at the conservatories of Reims, Lille and Paris, he is now in charge of pedagogy and research at La Muse en Circuit, where he leads actions to raise awareness of creative music and new digital audio technologies. He holds a Master's degree in aesthetics and art sciences as well as a Doctorate in musicology, and continues his research on the generation of material by conceptualizing sound through graphic representation. Like a sculptor, he works on space as a metaphorical representation of the different musical scales.

David Bernini

Director of

Crossing Continents

Born in 1977, graduated form the directing department (actor's group) of GITIS (P. Fomenko workshop). Later - the Higher Courses of Scriptwriters and Directors (V. Menshov workshop).

Was awarded with the Video of the year prize at A1 channel for the music video "Without us" (Delphin) and DIA AWARDS as the Best video for the clip "Parabellum" (Masha Makarova).

Alex Berweck

Director of

Fussel

Alex Berweck, born 1986 in Reutlingen, is a director and 2D/3D Artist.
He created his first 3D animated projects during his bachelor degree studies, between 2006 and 2011, at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart. In the following years he gained working experience as a 2D/3D Artist in the fields of animation, games
and product visualization. His wish to constantly improve his artistic skills and tell stories in the form of movies, finally brought him to the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2016.
He received his diploma in 2019 with his project "Fussel" in the field of study Animation/Effects Director.

Irene Blei

Director of

The Tree Has Been Planted

Independent filmmaker, teacher and researcher, specialized in doing animation. Founder of pioneering audiovisual techniques art school for kids and youths. Expert in organization and development of collective film projects. Formerly Professor at University of Buenos Aires. Author of a book and many articles about animation, teaching and creation. Member and founder of organizations and collectives oriented to Culture, Childhood, Art and Women’s Participation.

Wiebe Bonnema

Director of

The End

Wiebe Bonnema was born in 1995 in the Netherlands, went to Artez University of the Arts and graduated here with his animated short The End in 2019.

Cécile Brun

Director of

Letting Go

Born in 1986 in Uster, CH. She graduated her Bachelor of Design in Animation in 2011 at HSLU D&K. 2010 she completed an
exchange at the Comic Department at ESA St. Luc, Brussels, BE. In 2015 she won the „Résidence d‘écriture en cinéma
d‘animation“ at Abbaye de Fontevraud, F.
She works as an independent director, illustrator and film projectionist in Zurich, CH.
Cécile Brun is known for her two award-winning short films ZMITZT DRIN (2011) and
YURI (2010), which both screened at several international film festivals.

Thomas Norwood-Carr

Director of

The Shoemaker's Dream

Tom Carr has held a long interest in creating images to intrigue and entertain. Tom studied film to degree level, and was awarded a Fuji film student award for direction. Tom enjoys oil painting and clay sculpting which affords him a unique eye on the world. 

Following some involvement in amateur theatre backstage and on stage, he returned to study to obtain his second degree in computer animation and effects. Tom now has made Cyprus his home and hopes to pursue a career using his motion graphics/animation skills.

Joe Chang

Director of

Pray and I am not an Angel

Joe Chang is an award-winning Chinese-born Canadian animation director. He studied at Lu-Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, China and Tama Art University Graduate school in Tokyo, Japan and the animated short the Chinese Violin (2000) was his first animated film with the National Film Board of Canada. His most recent work is animated film I am not an Angel (2021). His animated short films won numerous awards all over the world, A Long-distance Call (2008) and The Music Box (2019) were selected for Short film Corner section of Cannes Film Festival. Pan Tian Shou (2004) was selected into Annecy, Zagreb, Ottawa and other film festivals. Currently, as an artist , animator and independent filmmaker, Joe lives in Vancouver, Canada and Hangzhou and Shanghai, China.

Thibault Chollet

Director of

The Dream of B. Soares

Born in 1987 in Dijon. He graduated a Master degree in Cinema in Lyon in 2011. He made his first animated short
film during his studies. Since he works as assistant director on the animated tv series Stinky Dog.
The dream of B. Soares is his third film and his second collaboration with GASP!

Shaun Clark

Director of

The Beholder

Born in Beverley, United Kingdom. Independent filmmaker Shaun Clark has worked as a director and animator since 2005. His work has been BAFTA nominated and won prizes at Clermont Ferrand Film Festival, London short film festival, Imagine Film Festival and the British Animation Awards. Shaun has held retrospective screenings of his films both in Greece and South Korea and has created films for the BBC, Discovery Times USA and Arts Council England. He currently resides in London where he works as a director at www.flickermill.com

Amélie Cochet

Director of

IHR

1996 in Bern, raised bilingual (de/fr). After the preliminary course in arts at the art academy of Bern (HKB) in cooperation with the Talentförerung Arts & Crafts at Highschool Hofwil, she finished her Bachelor degree in Animation 2D at Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst in 2019.
2018 she was an Intern for five months at YK Animation in Bern where she
worked on the film „The Germans“.
Since Summer 2019 she works as a freelanced Animator and Illustrator and is cofounding the animation collective “STUDIO PIAF” in Bern together with Louis Möhrle

Thomas Corriveau

Director of

They Dance With Their Heads

Thomas Corriveau made his first films in the 1980s and pursued a career as a visual artist, working mainly in the fields of drawing, painting and animation. His works are part of various private and public collections and he has exhibited regularly in Canada and abroad. He is a professor at the School of Visual and Media Arts at Université du Québec in Montréal. After a two-decade hiatus, he returned to animation and is now fully involved as an independent director.

Ronnie Cramer

Director of

The Chair

Artist/Musician/Filmmaker Ronnie Cramer has been active in the arts community for over thirty years. His paintings have been exhibited in galleries and other venues across the country, his music has achieved airplay on over 150 radio stations nationwide and his critically-acclaimed films have been screened at festivals around the world. He has also been featured as a guest lecturer on art and media at numerous museums and universities. Cramer's work has been exhibited in every US state and in sixty-eight other countries.

Nick Crimmen

Director of

Crick

Nick studied at the University of the West of England, Bristol, in the UK and graduated with a first class degree in the field of Animation.
So far he has worked as an Animator, Asset Builder, Character Designer, Illustrator, Producer, Director, Background Artist, Character Builder/Rigger, Voice Actor and Colour Artist and is constantly looking for new challenges.
Crick was created for a 48hr Anijam competition organised by Cardiff Quick Draw, that Nick takes part in regularly outside of work.

He is also a keen environmentalist, fascinated by plants and wildlife.

Leo Crowley

Director of

The Dead Hands of Dublin

Leo Crowley is a writer and creative at Pink Kong Studios. Writer/ director of “The Dead Hands of Dublin” (2020) this is Leos first time directing an animated short film for Cinematic release.

Leo is the studios second director, working on commercial projects as well as writing on Pink Kong Studios own concepts. Leo was the co-writer and assistant director of Pink Kong Studios TV series Urban Tails (2019). Leo has a background in animation having received a first in a BA Animation degree from the Irish School of animation (Ballyfermot).

Bastien Dupriez

Director of

Under the Canopy

Bastien Dupriez graduated from the ESAAT (School of applied arts and textile) of Roubaix, France in 2014. From 2015, he worked on different projects as a decorator, from short-movies to animated series such as ‘Last Man’ created by Jérémie Périn.As guitarist and a music lover, the interaction between music and abstract animation constitutes the heart of his artistic approach. Experimenting international animation festival Insomnia in Russia, he continued on and left for Montreal to participate in the Cinémathèque québécoise’s mentored animation residency program, where he worked on a project physical exertion was selected at multiple festivals including OIAF, FICAM, LIAF and KLIK.At the same time, he initiated a more committed project Under the Canopy, with which he wishes to allude to the Birds-of-paradise’s environment techniques to bridge animation and sound.

Celia Eid

Co-director of

The Shudder flies away with open arms, Farewell

The duet formed by Celia Eid & Sébastien Béranger is based on the fragile balance between the eye and the ear. In a world where the image is predominant, sound plays an essential role. Transversality is essential. The relationship between the pictorial gesture and the musical gesture, the relationship between matter, hand work and digital techniques are at the heart of their approach. As in chamber music, Celia Eid & Sébastien Béranger form a duet, that meens a "singular instrument" where all the components offer a unique object.

This duality is particularly evident in Celia Eid's work. Specializing in the relationship between visual animation and contemporary music, Celia's work today turns to video art, which combines these two disciplines. Born in Brazil, Celia Eid is a graduate of the School of Communication and Arts at the University of São Paulo. For several years, she was an illustrator and collaborated with several Brazilian publishing houses and newspapers. Her treatment of animation has led her to regularly hold creative workshops at the Forum des Images in Paris. Her work has been presented at several international festivals. In 2005 she won the prize for best interactive film at the Fluxus festival.

For his part, Sébastien Béranger is a multiform composer who multiplies his approaches to music and sound. Trained at the conservatories of Reims, Lille and Paris, he is now in charge of pedagogy and research at La Muse en Circuit, where he leads actions to raise awareness of creative music and new digital audio technologies. He holds a Master's degree in aesthetics and art sciences as well as a Doctorate in musicology, and continues his research on the generation of material by conceptualizing sound through graphic representation. Like a sculptor, he works on space as a metaphorical representation of the different musical scales.

Claudia Esslinger

Director of

Sparrow

Claudia Esslinger is a filmmaker interested in the connections between personal and broadly universal experiences. As a visual artist, she often integrates drawing into her films.  She also produces immersive installations and new media projects for a gallery setting and often works in collaboration with scientists, musicians and performers.

She has been the recipient of seven Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards and a New Forms Regional Grant (NEA). Artist’s residencies include the Omora Ethnobotanical Preserve near Cape Horn (2009), Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California (2007), Singing Pictures workshop in Seoul, South Korea (2000) and the Grafikwerkstaadt in Dresden, Germany (1999).

Verena Fels

Director of

Tobi and the Turbobus

Verena Fels is an independent director and filmmaker born in Biberach an der Riss in Southern Germany and is located in Ludwigsburg, area of Stuttgart. After studying media technology at the University of Media
in Stuttgart, a further study of animation and directing followed at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
Her first film MOBILE was screened at over 300 film festivals and won 45 prizes and 10 honorable mentions. The children's book to the film MOBILE was published by the Esslinger-Thienemann and was also design by Verena Fels. She also worked on independent short films for german television show. Recently she directed the 2D feature Film "Der kleine Rabe Socke - Suche nach dem verlorenen Schatz" which is released in German cinemas.

Simon Filliot

Director of

Heart of Gold

Born in Reims in 1987, Simon goes through a literary prep, then a cinema prep, before joining the image department of Femis in 2008. He chooses to make his graduation film in stop-motion; La Ravaudeuse obtains the congratulations of the jury, as well as more than 60 festival selections and 5 prizes. After school, he worked as a cinematographer and assistant operator, always with an inclination for stop-motion films. He thus does the lighting in Marie Larrivé’s films, notably for the Hunting Museum, and also finds its place in the teams of Breton animation: Vivement Lundi (Dimitri, Pigeons et Dragons) and JPL films. With JPL, he has the
opportunity to work on films like Lupus, by Carlos Gomez Salamanca, or even Raymonde or the vertical escape, by Sarah Van Den Boom, nominated for the César. In Paris, he also works on commercials, clips, institutional, animation or real shot. At the same time, he has the idea of a short film, in a thematic around the
body related of his graduation film. After three years of development and one year of production, he presents Heart of Gold in 2020.

Daniel Fitzgerald

Director of

Earlybird

I was born and raised in Australia, living in Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, then moved to the UK to start a freelance career in motion graphics in London. I've now started a small independent animation studio in my new home town of Rochester, UK, and Earlybird is our first animated short.

Maja Gehrig

Director of

Average Happiness

Born in 1978 in Zurich, Switzerland. 1999-2000 Attends preparatory course at ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). 2000-02 Attends Fachhochschule Aarau, Media Arts department. 2002-03 Internship at Eesti Joonisfilm, Tallinn. 2003-05 Attends HSLU (Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst), animation department. 2006-11 Works as curator of installations and performances at ARM (Artspace Rondeel Maastricht). 2011 Founds Gehrig Trick & Sohn.

Evgenia Golubeva

Director of

The Witch and the Baby

Evgenia is an award winning animation director, character designer and screenwriter of Russian origin living in the UK.

She studied at the Film and TV University in St. Petersburg. Since graduating Evgenia has written and directed a number of award-winning short films which have been screened internationally at film festivals. Evgenia writes screenplays for kids TV shows like “Hey Duggee”, “Digby Dragon” and “Becca’s Bunch”. Also she illustrates books for children.

Carmen Córdoba González

Director of

Roberto

Combining an artistic profile with her professional career as a Computer Engineer, in 2012 she decided to focus exclusively in animation and storytelling. “Roberto” is her first short film and the reason of this change of life. Co-author of more than 30 manuals about graphic design software, currently teaches 3D animation online and at Murcia University.

Sofja Gorelova

Director of

Touché

Sofja has no idea how to write biographies, but she happily animates something dark and funny. After 2 years of study at an Art School, she became bored with drawing static pictures. Knowing nothing about the animation, she began to animate different things. So began her journey in the world of animation. At present, she studies Animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Caroline Hamann

Director of

Criss Cross

Caroline Hamann has been working in Stop-Motion Animation since 2004.
After completing a BA Honours in Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts, London, she went on to start her Animation career at Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.
She has since worked on many different animation projects around the world, including Academy-Award nominees and winners of the Grimme-Preis in Germany.
Caroline mainly works as a Director, Producer, Story Artist and Animator. She is based in Munich.

Ido Hartmann

Director of

The Shadow of the Sun

Ido is a 28 years old visual artist who lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel. He invest himself mostly in visual art, music, writing, painting, animation, 3D art, projection-mapping and basically everything that goes well with visual storytelling.
His main themes mostly include social subjects and rise questions about his generation and way of living. 

my personal photo is attached.

"HEXED" Team

Directors of

HEXED

Louise Bongartz studied animation at ENSAV La Cambre and later at BAU Design College of Barcelona to specialize in stop-motion.

D. Forest Gamble has a BA in New Media (3D CG / Video) and German from the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He loves all forms of animation.

Francisco Martins Fontes has a BFA in Film Directing and an MA in Film Studies. This is his first experience with animation.

Jonas Hofmann

Director of

Fit for the Future

Based in Switzerland, Zurich area. Started as Graphic Designer with a passion for writing, illustration, animation, film and sound. Dived 2007-2013 into philosophy and game design. Launched a Motion Design School for ad agency creatives in 2017. Currently leading the Studio at Baldinger & Baldinger, working as a Motion Designer and Cinematographer for brands like Läderach and Samsung.

Nikolaus Jantsch

Director of

L

Nikolaus Jantsch was born in Linz in 1978. He enrolled in a sociology study programme in 1999, but moved to Vienna in 2000 and started to study painting and experimental animation in the class of Prof Christian L. Attersee at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. In 2006 he received his diploma with distinction. Since 2012 he has been head of the animation department.

Chico Jofilsan

Director of

In My Particular Case

Chico Jofilsan's relationship with animation begins with a long-standing habit of imagining his drawings as if they were moving. With a degree in graphic design from Puc-Rio University (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and vast experience working for broadcast networks, he developed the ability to transform his ideas into animated stories. This newly found passion for animation and storytelling made becoming a director the next natural move.

Graphically obsessed, Chico has a multidisciplinary, hands-on approach to art direction combining live-action, stop motion, 2D, and 3D animation. He infuses projects with his unique visual signature while open to exploring a range of animation and cinematography techniques. Chico currently lives in Uruguay where he directs films for markets across 4 continents such as Brazil, USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and China.

Michalis Kalopaidis

Director of

The Parrot Lady

Michalis Kalopaidis is an Animation Director and Producer. In 2008 he founded the animation studio Zedem Media, Cyprus' largest and longest running Animation Studio. He is a founding member of the Cyprus Animation Association, the National Representative of ASIFA Cyprus, a member of the Cyprus Directors Guild and the President of the Larnaka Famagusta Cinema Society, a non-profit organization. Michalis, holds a BA in Media Management from Columbia College Chicago and an MA in Media & Cultural Studies from Middlesex University, London. He is the Delegate Producer of the short film 'Dragon Recipes'(2019) as well as the the Producer & Co-Director of the short film 'Mesut', which has been selected to be presented at the 'Animation du Monde' pitching forum of MIFA Annecy in 2021. 'The Parrot Lady' is his first personal film as Director.

Jass Kaselaan

Director of

Gaia

Jass Kaselaan is Estonian artist currently living and working in Tallinn. He has BA from Tartu Art College and MA from sculpture department in Estonian Academy of Arts. He has had several solo shows in Estonia and abroad. He is best known for his dark and large scale installations where he often combines sound with sculpture. For some time now Kaselaan has also been working with animation and Gaia is the first animation film he has completed.

Daria Kashcheeva

Director of

Daughter

Daria Kashcheeva was born in 1986 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Daria studies animated film at FAMU in Prague. Her student films featured at many international festivals. Daria’s original To Accept won the Nespresso Talents 2017 film competition in Cannes. Her Bachelor’s puppet animation Daughter has a premiere at Annecy Animation Film Festival and got Cristal for the best Student film. Daughter has won the Student Academy Award in the category Animation (International Film Schools)

Christian Kaufmann

Director of

Wild West Compressed

Christian Kaufmann was born in 1993 in Bonn. After graduating from high school, he began studying media design at the Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln with a focus on film and television where he created several short films, some scenic, some animated. After completing his studies in the summer of 2015, he worked as an animator and concept designer at the design agency "FEEDMEE" in Cologne for German and international television productions. In the autumn of 2016, he began studying animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

Ciara Kerr

Director of

Right Now, I am

Ciara Kerr is an Animation Director who loves to make art and loves making it come to life. Ciara enjoys a very tactile approach to animating and specialises in any 2D traditional animation that means she can get her hands covered in some kind of paint or ink.

Mari Kivi

Director of

Food Chain and Contact

Mari Kivi is an animator and an illustrator, who lives and works in Estonia. She has a BA degree in painting and in animation. She has been working as a freelance illustrator, illustrating posters for music events, designing album covers, taking part in many group exhibitions and creating short animations. At the moment she works as a project manager and a distributor in Estonian Academy of Arts in the Animation Department. 

Liis Kokk

Co-irector of

Food Chain

Liis Kokk is an Estonian animator, who lives and works in Tallinn. She studied animation and received a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts at Estonian Academy of Arts. Currently she is working as an animation teacher in Nukufilmi Lastestuudio.  

Kamila Kucíková

Director of

300g/m2

Born in Slovakia, I worked for festival Fest Anča. Now living in Estonia I'm working for PÖFF Shorts.

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Director of

Lullaby for a Pandemic

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and author. Her films have premiered at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, in New York) as well as many other museums, art galleries and international film festivals. Foster is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at University of Nebraska and the author of Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader and many books on the cinema.

Xin Li

Director of

Spring and The Yellow Rose

Xin is a Chinese born animator and filmmaker based in Melbourne, Australia. He specializes in the traditional method of paint-on-glass stop-motion animation. Through this technique he explores tranquil and often intimate moments of life through abstract narratives.

Yen Jui Lu

Director of

Anton

Yen Jui Lu is a NY based designer and animator who specializes in motion graphics, design, and illustration. He is creative, full of imagination, and passionate about storytelling.
Lu excels at conveying ideas and visualizing concepts through his minimal visual style. With a design background, he developed a keen eye for detail and a great sense for poetic imagery, which creates a unique aesthetic that makes his work stand out.
His work is deeply inspired by the subtle moments of daily life. Translating his special perspective into a visual language, his works reflect valuable insights that convey messages that make the audience think, or simply provide a visual journey that makes people smile.
His goal is to become an artist who inspires people and spreads positive messages.
Erik Lu received a BFA from the Shih Chien University (2015) and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts (2021). His short film Song Memory won first prize in Culture and Art Golden Festival (2016), and short film Run was nominated in the finalist in Non-smoking Life Animation Contest (2014). His works have been shown in several festivals and exhibitions including Exception - 1OO Designers Exhibition (2015) at Taiwan's Songshan Cultural and Creative Park and Motive Penetration 75% Animation Exhibition (2014) at DearDeer Art Gallery, Taiwan.

Alejandro Ariel Martin

Director of

Spring and The Yellow Rose

Alejandro Ariel Martin is an audiovisual director in Film and Television from the Provincial
School of Cinema and Television of Rosario, has Degree in Social Communication from
the National University of Rosario and a postgraduate degree in Creative Communication from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
He is director and screenwriter of the animated short film Epirenov.

Chloé Mazlo

Director of

Ashaman la Diva

Chloé Mazlo is a director and visual artist living in Paris.

After studying graphic design at the Higher School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, she specialized in making animated films at the crossroads of different techniques.

Take the territory of autobiography (L’amour m’anime, Deyrouth, Les Petits Cailloux), literary adaptation (Conte de fées à l’usage des moyennes personnes according to Boris Vian) or its history family (Diamenteurs), his films are distinguished by their strongly allegorical pictorial language. Between the crisis of ideals and disappointed hopes, they describe to varying degrees the tribulations of characters struggling with the experience of disenchantment. They are all pretexts to review with tenderness and self-deprecation the myths of the Great Love, the Ideal Family, Absolute Happiness or a Perfect Identity.

His short films have been selected in many French and international festivals, broadcast on television (France 2, Canal +) and have won several awards. His third short film, Les Petits Cailloux, won the 2015 Caesar Short Film Animation.

Chloé Mazlo is currently writing her first feature film and is also pursuing a drawing practice.

Kieran McLister

Director of

Spring and The Yellow Rose

A 22-year-old stop-motion animator from Scotland, Kieran graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2019. He likes plasticine, coffee and bad puns.

Michaela Mihályi

Director of

Sh_t Happens

Michaela Mihályi (1991, Slovakia) is currently studying animation at FAMU in Prague, where she lives as well. She previously studied animation at VŠMU in Bratislava. She has an interest in telling stories using various techniques, from hand-drawn, cut-out to puppet animation. Besides school work, she works as a freelance animation director and illustrator. She has a dog called Ela and loves beer and coffee equally.

Louis Möhrle

Director of

IHR (THEM)

1993 in Lucerne. After an apprenticeship as draughtsman, he finished his Bachelor degree in Animation 2D at Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst in 2019. Co-Founder of the creative collective „KulturKonsumEnten“ in 2017 and of the VJing collective „Teichprojektionen“ in 2018.
Since Summer 2019 he works as a freelanced Animator and is co-founding the animation collective “STUIDO PIAF” in Bern together with Amélie Cochet.

James Morehead

Writer, Narrator and Producer of

Tethered

James Morehead is the Poet Laureate of Dublin, California, and author of "canvas: poems" (Viewless Wings Press, 2021). "tethered", based on a poem from "canvas", is his first film.

Marina Moshkova

Director of

Blanket

Was born in 1987 in St.Petersburg, Russia. In 2006 graduated from drawing courses of St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In 2009 graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and TV, speciality - animation filmmaking. From 2012 works as a director at the Studio of Computer Animation “Peterburg”.

Emmanuel Ollivier

Director of

Twin Trees

Emmanuel learned about movies on the field. After a Master's Degree in Communication, he began working as an Assistant Director on Tv series, music videos and commercials.

Simultaneously, between 2014 and 2018 he directed over a hundred corporate films he shot and edited himself.
In 2015 his first short film, "William Wilson" is selected at the Cannes Short Film Corner and the Busan International Film Festival. In early 2019 a strong desire for animation leads him to write an ambitious first project : "The monster with green eyes", selected for the pitch contest at the Paris International Animation Film Festival.

He then writes and directs a music video, "Paradise", mixing live-action footage and animation, which is broadcasted on french national television. He went on to direct several other music videos.

"Twin Trees" is his first fully animated short film.

Sine Özbilge

Director of

21xoxo

Sine Özbilge is a multidisciplinary Artist and Designer with a strong focus on Animation and Graphic Design. She holds a BA in ‘Design and Arts’ from the Libera Università di Bolzano FUB Italy, as well as an MA in ‘Animation’ from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts KASK Belgium.

She has been mentored by Aldo Cibic at the Cibicworkshop - the contemporary successor of the renowned Italian Memphis Designer Ettore Sottsass - and has acquired valuable skills and project methodologies. Soon after her training she developed a passion for animation and decided to delve into the Art World in order to foster her artistic practices. She recently has completed her first professional animated short ‘#21xoxo’ with the support of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund - VAF as well as the production house Lunanime - the daughter company of Lumiere.

In her works she creates obscure worlds where subconscious desires, conflicts and struggles metamorphose into absurd and surreal artworks. These often have a mixed media basis where animation and live-action metamorphose in order to explore new connotations and stylistic forms. Her work focuses on Femininity, the Subconscious, our Post-Net Era and the theory of Absurdism.

Christine Panushka

Director of

Interlude

Christine Panushka is an internationally known award-wining artist, filmmaker/animator and educator. Her animated films have won numerous awards including the Grand Prize at the Aspen Filmfest and a Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival.” Named an Absolut Visionary in 1996, Panushka conceptualized, directed and curated “Absolut Panushka,” The second issue in a series of content-based web sites sponsored by Absolut Vodka.
Panushka has curated animation programs, was Jury Chair at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival and served on the selection committees for Glas International Animation Festival, Hiroshima International Animation Festival and Ottawa International Animation Festival.
Currently, Panushka is a Full Professor in the John C. Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California.

Fritz Penzlin

Director of

Criss Cross

Fritz Penzlin is a passionate Animator. After a career in music, he went on to study
Animation at the Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen ‘Konrad Wolf’ and graduated
successfully with a diploma in Animation.
Whilst at university, he already began working as a stop-motion Animator and after
graduation continued to do so, animating on many award-winning feature films, TV
series, short films as well as commercials.
His expertise ranges from classic stop motion puppet animation to claymation, sand
animation, paper cut-out all the way to 2D computer Animation.
Fritz is also a practising musician and composer.
Fritz Penzlin lives in Berlin.

Andre Perim

Director of

Infotoxication

André Perim is a musician, composer, and multimedia artist from Brazil. His work is based on the unique mixture of the sacred tradition of the Afro-Brazilian Rhythms with electronic elements inspired by ambient and psychedelia.
As a multimedia Artists produced the Video art works "INFOTOXICATION" (2018), I.D. (2019), TAMBOR (2020), and BROKEN RAINBOW (2020).
His work took part in several festivals around he world such as the sixth International Exhibition on New Media Art at the CICA Museum in 2020. It also was screened in the New Wave Movie Festival 2019 (Hong Kong), Loading Festival Day 2019(Portugal), Refluxo Festival 2019(Brazil), Digital Art Festival 2019(Bulgaria), and Forum of Video-Art 2019(Saudi-Arabia), Malabo Film and Music Festival 2019 (Guinea), Switch Festival 2020 (Netherlands), Toxicity symposium at the Chitkara Art and Design School 2020(India) and ADAF (Athens Digital Art Festival) (Greece) 2020.
In 2020 his work received a review in a special edition of ART HABENS Contemporary Art Review Magazine.

Anne-Christine Plate

Director of

Iktamuli

Born 1977, raised at the baltic sea (Greifswald), tried to learn to play guitar and to become a fast swimmer (7-14), aspiring fashion designer (10), wanna-do-something-connected-to-arts (18), fell in love with the russian language (16), studied textile art at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Arts and Design, Halle & Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (20-27), discovered drawing as her field, completed 2 animation films, moved to Berlin (27), living with one man and two kids, ninetofive: scientific assistant at University of Applied Sciences Europe, realizing commissions. She has just finished her third animation project Iktamuli, a short film about being a mother of a so called mentally disabled son.

Fabienne Priess

Director of

Tick

Born in 1994, Fabienne`s enthusiasm for film and tv was awakened very early at the age of six, when she came across her first filmset and started working as an advertising model for photo and film productions. After graduating high school, she decided to expand her knowledge by working in different departments in the film industry. During her apprenticeship as a media designer at Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting she found her
passion for storytelling and started focusing on film production. Since 2017, Fabienne is studying film production at the Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg, where she wants to gain more experiences, meet interesting people and potential partners.

Ingrid Pucci

Director of

Run for the Bird Song

 Ingrid Pucci is a filmmaker and animator. In 2020 she graduated with a master's degree in animation from the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Hannes Rall

Director of

Shaking a Singapore Spear

Hannes Rall is Associate Chair Research and Associate Professor (tenured) at the School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological
University Singapore. He is also a successful director of independent animated short films: His films, primarily adaptations of classic literature,
have been shown in over 650 film-festivals worldwide and won 72 international awards. His book Animation: From Concept to Production (CRC/Taylor & Francis) was published in December 2017. His new book
Adaptation for Animation: Transforming Literature Frame by Frame was published by CRC Press on July 15, 2019.

Alexia Roider

Director of

EndFGM

Alexia is the Artistic Co-Director of the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus and the Head of Creative at Zedem Media, Cyprus’ largest and longest running animation studio. She holds a BA in Film from the University of Arts, London and has been working in the film industry since 1998, directing films, commercials and documentaries. She served as the president of the Cyprus Directors Guild (2014-2016) and is a member of the European Film Academy.

Aline Romero

Director of

Psychophonic

Aline Romero, was born in Mexico City. She studied Visual Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 2009 got a scholarship to study Video Art and Sculpture at the University of California (UCSD). In the following years, she experimented with stop motion animation and glass sculpture, attended Pilchuck Glass School, USA. After, she started a Glass Studio in Guadalajara, México, followed by a Design Agency in Chicago, USA. By 2017 she moved to Barcelona to study a Master in Stop Motion Animation at the Escola de Cinema de Barcelona, Spain. There she directed her grad film Psychophonic premiered in 2019 at SITGES Film Festival.
Aline is currently developing her first feature film ¨El Viaje de Azul¨

Natalia Ryss

Director of

Comte

Creator of animated and experimental shorts.
Works as an independent filmmaker and in collaboration with different producers.

Was born in Rostov-on-Don.
Graduated from Art College in Rostov-on-Don (designer) in 1988 and art‐graphic faculty of the Russian State University of Cinematography named after S. Gerasimov in 1995.
Since 2015 she lives in Haifa, Israel.

Jorge Sarria

Director of

Colrun

Jorge Sarria de Vicente (Madrid, Spain, 12/19/1994). He studied the Degree of Animation at the University of Technology and Digital Art (U-TAD), where he began directing his first short film, “Colrun”, in which there were up to fifty university students involved. He has worked as junior layout artist at B-Water Animation for “Treasure Trekkers” series, as a preview artist at Morena Films for the movie “Historias lamentables” by Javier Fesser and as a professor of Digital and 3D Animation Laboratory at the Antonio de Nebrija University. He currently works at B-Water Animation as a mid layout artist, directs a personal project called “Zelda Lost Link” (a tribute to the videogame saga) and he is working in new film projects. He is also the founder of Animatrópolis, a website with educational videos about animation.

Martina Scarpelli

Director of

A Little Too Much

Martina Scarpelli (1988) is an Italian film maker with a bachelor in Fine Art from “Accademy of Brera” in Milano, and a bachelor in Animation from “Experimental Cinematography Center” in Turin. She is board member of Viborg based Art Collective "Plastic". Martina’s short film EGG won the First film Award at Annecy, received a Golden Dove at Dok Leipzig, Golden Horseman at Filmfest Dresden, Grand Jury Award at AFI Fest, among others, and was nominated for best short film at the European Animation Awards 2018.

Frédéric Schuld

Director of

The Chimney Swift

Frédéric Schuld is an author director and animator. He started working as freelance graphic designer and art director for advertising agencies before he studied film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He founded the studio “Fabian&Fred” with Fabian Driehorst in 2011. His award winning short “Carlotta’s Face” was screened in more than 230 festivals.

Jeremy Schaefer

Director of

The Box Assassin

Jeremy Schaefer is a 22 year old, recent Computer Animation graduate of Ringling College of Art & Design. Growing up in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he discovered his passion for art and filmmaking while creating films with his older brother. At school, he honed his skills and created projects to land him an internship at Walt Disney Animation Studios. In his senior year, he set out to create his animated thesis film, “The Box Assassin”.  With the guidance from his faculty and peers, he was able to complete the film this past May. After graduation, Jeremy hopes to continue doing what he loves; creating, animating, and making films for audiences all around the world.

Leonid Shmelkov

Director of

Room with a Sea View

Leonid worked on various animation and film projects in Russia and Europe as a director, artist and animator. Simultaneously he produced several short animated films that were selected to many international festivals and awarded prizes, including Prize at Berlinale Film Festival in 2014 and NIKA in 2015 (Russian Film Academy Award).
As an artist and designer Leonid illustrated about 10 books and in 2015 he published his own books for children YBA.
Since 2019, Leonid has been teaching at School-studio SHAR (Moscow) and supervised student animation projects at HSE (High School of Economics, Moscow).

Zachary Simon

Director of

The Box Assassin

Zachary Simon is an animator and visual development artist. He is a recent graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design. Taking inspiration from the media he grew up with, his work includes themes of acceptance, empathy, and inclusion. Now he’s looking to find his place in the feature or television animation industry. His work can be found here: https://zacharysimonart.weebly.com/

Dana Sink

Director of

Abstract Animals and Jingo Ball

Dana Sink lives in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania with his wife, daughter, two cats, and two ducks. He creates allegorical animations that draw inspiration from the people and objects around him. His paintings, films, and animations have been seen in galleries and museums internationally. His achievements include several group and independent exhibitions and being featured in various articles and publications. His films have received recognition in several film and animation festivals and his work has been seen on MTV and MSNBC.

Ivica Širanovic

Co-director of

Abstract Animals

Ivica Širanović was born and lives in Bitola, Republic of Macedonia. When he was a child, there was only one cartoon per day aired on the national TV, at 7:15 p.m., just before the daily news. So, because his passion is animation, he wants to compensate for all the cartoons he missed as a child. He enjoys to hiking, drawing, playing guitar, composing music, and reading books. He balances his creative endeavors with his full-time day job.

Natalia Spychala

Director of

Marbles

Graduate of the Łódź Film School, Poland, director and animator. In addition to making short animated films, she explores stop motion techniques by co-creating projects that combine animation with literature, theatre, music and new technologies. She runs an stop motion studio, Fabryka Animacji, where she organizes animation workshops as well as art events for children, teenagers and adults.

David Štumpf

Director of

Sh_t Happens

David Štumpf (1991, Slovakia) finished his BA studies at VŠMU in Bratislava with the film Cowboyland that has been selected for festivals in Annecy, Stuttgart or Hiroshima and it has won several awards at home and internationally. David is now living in Prague where he is finishing his MA degree at FAMU with the film SH_T HAPPENS. He also works as a freelance director and animator

Adél Szegedi

Director of

Password to the *****

Adél Szegedi is an animation filmmaker, writer and illustrator from Hungary. She
learned the basics of animation and filmmaking at Illyés Academy of Arts in Budaörs,
Hungary. After completing the course, she enrolled at the University of Westminster
in London to continue her studies on the Contemporary Media Practice course.
Password to the * * * * * is her debut film.

Levin Tamoj

Director of

Tick

Levin Tamoj was born in 1995 in Bad Honnef, Germany. After graduating high school, he completed his apprenticeship as an audio-visual media designer. During that time, he developed his enthusiasm for animation, VFX and motion design. Since 2017 he has been a student at the Animationinstitute of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. There he focuses primarily on story development and storytelling.

Rebecca Thomson

Director of

Singing Grubs and Spiders

and Forest of Fears

Rebecca Thomson is a filmmaker based in nipaluna/Hobart who loves storytelling and connecting with people through a variety of formats and genres but usually with some humour and a twist. To that end Rebecca has directed and produced short documentaries, web series, horror films, activist films and music videos. In 2019 Rebecca completed the Screen Australia funded A Hairy Problem about female body hair, which has had around a million views online. Rebecca is also responsible for genre shorts Cupcake: A Zombie Lesbian Musical, Slashed and The Jelly Wrestler which have screened at more than seventy film festivals worldwide including Frameline San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Fest, New York City International Film Festival. Rebecca is one of the filmmakers behind Women of the Island, a web series of short documentaries telling the stories of the fascinating women who inhabit the island of Tasmania. As well as being viewed extensively online, the series took out the Grand Jury Prize at Berlin Web Fest 2019, Best Cinematography at LA Webfest and Best Direction in a Doco Series at Baltimore Webfest. Over the past twelve months Rebecca has been joyfully collaborating with songstress Monique Brumby on music video clips, developing a web series of original fairytale films with creative producer Catherine Pettman, working on a hybrid theatre/film project about the mental load that mothers carry, and has recently completed an animated documentary entitled There Is No ‘I’ In Island which weaves the self-recorded voices of Tasmanians during Covid-19 lockdown into a strange, beautiful animated landscape.

In her down time Rebecca also runs a highly shonky but super fun festival in her own backyard named Bec's Backyard Film Festival.

Basil Vogt

Director of

Duodrom

Born 21. 2. 1965. Director of Trickbüro studio in Zurich since 1990: Independent animation films and pre cinema inspired objects. Commissioned works in animation, illustration and playable exhibits for museums and exhibitions.
Teaching: Animation for beginners and experimental storytelling.

Timm Völkner

Director of

Aura

2011 Consin - Fen Fire / Director, Editor
2013 Consin - Closer / Director, Editor
Thaibodia /everything
2016  L‘Aria del Moscerino / Motion Design
3x2 Das Magazin /Motion Design
2017 So hell die Nacht / Motion Design
Carretera Austral / Motion Design
Reversion / Motion & Brand Design
2018 Passage / Concept, Visual Creation
BMG / Motion Design
2019 AURA

Rich Weber

Director of

Bench

Rich Webber is a Bafta Award winning freelance animation creative and Director. Working in animation for over 25 years. He is the Creator/Director of Aardman Animations Dc Nation shorts for Warner Brothers and Cartoon Network and Creator/Director of Purple and Brown for Nickelodeon, director of Shaun the Sheep episodes Series 1 & 2 for Aardman Animations as well as commercials and various other animation projects including Creature Comforts for David Attenborough's 90th birthday.
He is also a voice actor voicing such characters as Shirley in Shaun the Sheep as well as Ubo, in Farmageddon, Purple in Purple and Brown and Grub up in Nick Parks Early Man animated feature

Ewa Maria Wolska

Director of

My Dear Quarantine

Ewa Maria Wolska – director, puppeteer, stop-motion animator.

Masters : Theatre Direction, Theatre Academy, Warsaw. Founder of Teatr FRAKTAL (FRACTAL Theatre), creating original, intimate, poetic performances known for rich visuality, experimental sound, and original instruments. Significant works of her theatre company include:  Pomelo is in love, with the frog, the rain and many more, Biba and Frida la Vida ! (work in progress). 

Stop-motion films include my dear quarantine (2020); small, quite small (2021) and Salty Water (in progress).

Aya Yamasaki and Jason Brown

Director of

Fearless Woman

Opertura is the collaborative unit of self-taught artists, Aya Yamasaki (she/her) and Jason Brown (he/they). Through hand-drawn animations, comics, installations and other media they look at the workings of the natural world and describe it using playful characters and straightforward stories inspired by personal experience and folk storytelling traditions.

Kai Chuan Yang

Director of

Paradiddle

Yang Kai Chuan is a motion designer based in New York City. He started his career from being a compositor in an animation studio in Taiwan. He then went to the School of Visual Arts for an MFA in Computer Arts to sharpen his motion skills and build a solid artistic foundation. He has played drums in an orchestra from an early age. His musical journey inspired him to create his thesis project “Paradiddle,” which is about percussion in the military through different eras and spaces. His style makes 2D in three-dimensional and makes 3D into the flat looks.

Felix Zehender

Director of

Kater

Felix Zehender loves drawing. His studies taught him animation from Hamburg to Paris, but mostly at Filmakademie BadenWürttemberg. Since graduating, he has worked as a freelance storyboard artist for commercials and feature animation, as well as animating music videos and developing his own indie animation films.