Guests 2011

Matej Jenko

Filmarji / Behind the Scenes

Matej Jenko (32) is Slovenian illustrator mostly working for advertizing agencies and film crews. His started his professional career in 1997 as concept artist for Arxel Tribe where he worked on several computer game titles and later on ad productions. Since 2004 he freelances as a storyboard artist, visualizer and director. His portfolio can be found at www.matej-jenko.com

Miha Šubic

Zadnje kosilo / Last lunch

Miha Šubic,(Slovenian, born 1988) is Co-founder of film making group Caveman Pictures and film society Film Factory. He studied at University of Nova Gorica, School of Arts in Ljubljana. He attended a lot of master classes and workshops, including Anima Campus Tallinn 2011. His films were screened and awarded at many film festivals. In September 2011 he graduated with his animated film Last Lunch.

Petra Radulovič

Žužek Bužek in tobogan / Boppy the Bug and a Slide

Petra Radulovič studied digital media at the School of Arts in Nova Gorica / Famul Stuart. She is a visual artist and animator, currently based in Ljubljana. Director of the animated series Boppy the Bug.

Irene Piccinato

Ombra / Shadow

Born on 1st February 1983 in Pordenone. In 2008-2010 she specialized in 2d animation at the Animation Dept. of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - National Film School (Piedmont Branch). She has co-directed her graduation film OMBRA (SHADOW).

TOCHKA

Steps

TOCHKA is a creative unit composed of NagataTakeshi and MonnoKazue. We have been making animated films, graphics and comics since 1998. We were awarded the Multimedia grand-prix in CG section in1999, and nominated at Annecy Animation Film Festival and Holland Animation Film Festival, both in 2000. We have participated at various group shows and projects, and are a member of the Conference on Art and Art Projects (C.A.P.) from Kobe, Japan.

Falk Schuster

Out on a limb / Ast mit Last

Falk Schuster was born in 1980 in Oschatz, Germany. Between 2001 and 2003 he trained for a job as graphic designer and between 2003 and 2009 studied at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle/Saale. He took part in the European Animation Masterclass and in 2008 studied at the EASD Valencia Animation Department. He is a freelancer working in illustration, animation and animation workshops.

Cécile Milazzo

L’air de rien

Born in 1983, Cécile Milazzo graduated with a diploma in Fine Arts from the Arts school of Aix en Provence. After diverse professional experience in different artistic projects, she decided to return to her studies and took up a training course at la Poudrière. She directed A toutes jambes (one minute film), Un homme, un vrai (a film commissioned for Canal J Television) and L’air de rien, her graduation film (2011).

Ivana Bošnjak

Crossed Sild

Ivana Bosnjak was born in 1983 in Croatia. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Croatia, and from Volda University College in Norway, specialising in puppet animation.She has exhibited their artwork internationally, and has won several prizes. She is working as a model maker and animator at Bonobo studio in Zagreb.

Alexandra Hetmerová

Swimming Pool

Alexandra Hetmerová was born in 1986 in Kroměříž in the Czech Republic. She has been a student of the Animation Course at Film and TV School of The Academy of Performing Arts in Prague since 2005. In 2009 she was an intern with Priit Pärn and Ülo Pikkov at the Estonian Academy Of Art in Tallinn Estonia, department of Animation.

Immanuel Wagner

BAKA!

Immanuel Wagner was born in 1984 in Arlesheim, Switzerland. He studied at High School Heerbrugg SG, Department of Art
and attended the GBS St. Gallen Foundation Course. In 2007 he completed a BA course in Art at the Lucerne University of Art and Teaching, and between 2007 – 2010 he attended a BA course in Animation at the Lucerne University of Art and Design.

Petra Zlonoga

Lisica / Fox

Petra Zlonoga was born in 1982 in Zagreb, Croatia. She acquired her MA in Graphic design from the School of Design, Zagreb in 2007, and MA Animation and new media from the Academy of fine arts, Zagreb in 2011. Lisica (Fox) is her second hand-drawn animated student film.

Yuka Takeda

White Hair

Yuka Takeda was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Her broad interests and experiences range from textiles, theater, Fine art to film. Animation became one of her main focus during her BA. She obtained MA at Royal College of Art in 2010. She currently lives and works as an artist/ freelance animator in London.

Bernhard Bamert

Gipfel-Gig / A Summit Gig

After his studies as a graphic designer in Berne, Switzerland, Bernhard Bamert studied trombone at the Swiss Jazz School in Berne. He’s playing in several bands and teaches the Jazz trombone at the ZHdK (Zurich University of the Arts) and the Swiss Jazz School in Berne. Besides being a musician he works on several projects as an illustrator and graphic designer. He lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.

Simon Bogojević Narath

Cvijet bitke / Flower of battle

Simon Bogojević Narath was born in 1968 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department in Zagreb. He has been working on experimental film/video and video-installations since 1990. In 1993 he started working with 2D and 3D computer animation. His short experimental and animated films were screened and awarded at many international festivals. He teaches animation at the Arts Academy in Split, at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka and Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (Animation Department).

Gábor Ulrich

Memoir

Gábor Ulrich was born in 1967. He graduated from the Kecskemét Teacher Training College, visual course in 1990. He has acquired his diploma in typography at Hungarian University of Art and Design in 1996. From 1994 until 2001 he was working as a College Teacher. Since 1992 he has been a freelance graphic designer. He primarily makes experimental works with an organic base.

Ivana Jurić

Soba / The Room

Ivana Jurić was born in Osijek in 1982. She graduated in animation and new media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. During her studies, she was awarded for her student work as a whole. She directed the short animated film JA / I, for which she was awarded the second award at ''ESSL AWARD CEE 2009''. Apart from film festivals she has presented her work at group and solo exhibitions in Croatia and abroad. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Visual Artists.

Basil Vogt

Kapitän Hu / Captain Hu

Basil Vogt was born in 1965. Since 1990 he has been the director of Trickbüro studio dedicated to animated films and products, and graphic design. He has been teaching animation and experimental storytelling at Lucerne School of Art and Design HSLU since 2000. Commissioned work with moving images, Illustrations and objects for museums and exhibitions.

Béla Weisz

Falak / Walls

Béla Weisz was born in 1965 in Szekszárd, Hungary. From 1983 to 1996 he worked at the Kecskemét studio of Pannonia Film Studio (later Kecskemétfilm Ltd.); since 1997 he has been working as a freelancer. From 1991 he worked at Folimage Studio in France with a scholarship as an animator. In 2007, he taught at the Poudriere Animation College, from 2005 he has had workshops in Garay János Secondary School, Szekszárd. Besides making animated films he designs caricatures, comic strips, and posters that are regularly published in various national and local papers.

Ivan Ramadan

Kiyamet

Ivan Ramadan was born 1985. He lives in Sarajevo and studies Architecture. He has been doing 3D animation since childhood, and in 10 years gathered sufficient experience through various small projects. His first film Tolerantia (2008), the first 3D animated film produced in Bosnia and Herzegovina, became successful in Bosnia and around the world. It received seven awards including the nomination for the best short film by the European Film Academy (EFA) 2008, and was shown in the official selection of 35 film festivals. His second film Wondermilk was awarded as the best ecological film on festival Balkanima 2010, screened on 14 regional festivals and represented Bosnia and Herzegovina at the INPUT conference in Seoul

Aleksej Aleksejev

Goo – Goo Babies

Aleksej Aleksejev was born in Moscow in 1965. After his graduation as a rocket engineer from Moscow High Technical University in 1988 he studied animation in the famous Moscow animation studio Pilot, where he was later working as animator and director. In 1993 he graduated from Moscow’s film University VGIK as film director. From 1996 until 2003 he was working at Varga Studio in Budapest on many TV series and pilots, including Mr. Bean animation episodes where he acted as Series Director. From 2004 he has been the Creative Director of Studio Baestarts in Budapest. He also works as director, designer, scriptwriter, composer and editor. His animated shorts have won more than 60 prizes and Grand Prix in festivals around the world. Alexey was working in selection commissions and was invited as Jury member in more then 20 International festivals. He conducts workshops and works with students in Budapest (Hungary), Viborg (Denmark), Luzerne (Switzerland) and other countries.

Darko Masnec

Šest / Six

Darko Masnec, born in 1985 in Celje, Slovenia, lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. In 2009 he graduated in Visual Pedagogy from the University in Maribor, and in the same year started his MA study at the Department of Animation and New Media at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, where he is currently studying.

Georges Schwizgebel

Romance

While studying to be a graphic designer in the early 60ies, he discovered animation at the nearby Annecy festival. In 1970, he founded Studio GDS with his friends Claude Luyet and Daniel Suter. Spending more and more time on making his own films, he continued to work as a graphic artist and illustrator for another decade before animation became his full-time occupation. He lives and works in Geneva.

Tamás Patrovits

Bulvárhírek a diliházból / Tabloid News from the Mad House

Tamás Patrovits was born in 1968 in Budapest. He studied toy making and graphic design at the Vocational Secondary School of Visual Arts, Budapest. He graduated from the Faculty of Animation of the Hungarian College of Arts and Crafts in 1994. In 1994 he spent three months at Halas & Bachelor Studio with a John Halas scholarship. In 2004 he co-founded Manifeszt (Professional and Interest Association of Hungarian Animation Film Makers), he is also the president of the association; since 2005 he has been president of ASIFA Hungary. In addition to being a designer and director of artistic shorts, online and television series, he also makes comics, caricatures, illustrations, animation leads, spots and commercials. He is also a teacher of animation filmmaking since his graduation.

Lucija Mrzljak

O snu / About a Dream

Lucija Mrzljak, born in Zagreb in 1990, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb – Animation and New Media department. For one semester she studied in Poland at the Akademia Sztuk Pieknych w Poznaniu, the Animation department in the class of Hieronim Neumann. She works with experimental film (16 mm and 8mm film), stop-motion and puppet animation. Sometimes she also holds experimental film and stop-motion animation workshops in Croatia and Poland.

Magda Guidi

Via Curiel 8

Magda Guidi was born in Pesaro in 1979. She attended the art institute “Scuola del libro” in Urbino, the department of animated film, and later attended two years of specialization at the same school. She made some animated short films that were selected at several International Festivals. In 2005 she drew an animated sequence for the short film Il nano più alto del mondo, directed by Francesco Amato and produced by the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome. In 2009, together with Andrea Petrucci and Sergio Gutierrez, she realized an animated film (45 minutes) for the theatre show L’ultima volta che vidi mio padre directed by Chiara Guidi from Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. “Via Curiel 8” (2011) is her latest film, which she drew, animated and directed in collaboration with Mara Cerri.

Mara Cerri

Via Curiel 8

Mara Cerri was born in Pesaro in 1978. She attended the art institute “Scuola del libro” in Urbino, the department of animated film, and later attended two years of specialization at the same school. In 2003 she started to work as an illustrator of children’s books, collaborating with various publishers in Italy (Orecchio Acerbo, Fabbri, El, Carthusia, Fatatrac) and abroad (Grimm Press, Milan). She exhibited her works at the International Biennial of Illustration in Bratislava, Bologna and Lisbon. Her drawings have been published in magazines and newspapers like “Il Manifesto”, “Internazionale”, “Carta”. Since 2006 she has been making illustrations for magazines and advertising under the American agency “Riley Illustration”.
In 2008 she started to work on the project of an illustrated book Via Curiel 8, and a year later it was published by Orecchio Acerbo. The project also became a film project and won the jury award and the Arte France award at the “Film Project Competition” of Annecy 2008.She exhibited at the Venice Biennial in 2011.

Chintis Lundgren

Suitsupääsukese raskest elust / About the Hard Life of the Barn Swallow

Chintis Lundgren (b. 1981) is an Estonian animation director and an animator. She studied fine arts at an alternative art school called Non Grata and has been mainly active in the field of painting. Only in the last three years has she started to drift away from painting and has become more involved in animation. She works independently outside of big studios and schools.

Peter Budinský

tWINs

Peter Budinský was born in 1983. He graduated from VSMU, the Film and TV Faculty, Animation film department in Bratislava, Slovakia in 2010. He attended an Erasmus study programme at RITS, Animation department, Brussels, Belgium, 2008. In 2006 he graduated from the UAT High School, Animation department, Bratislava, Slovakia. He currently works as a freelance director of animated films, and organizer of the international animation film festival FestAnča

Miloš Tomić

Šarena laža / Pigeon's Milk

Miloš Tomić was born in Belgrade in 1976.
At the end of elementary school he started doodling, coloring, collecting objects from the street, photographing, playing music... During high school he went to "Kvadrat" film school run by Zoran and Svetlana Popović. He graduated in directing from the Academy of Art in the class of Miša Radivojević, and completed graduate studies of animation at Famu in Prague, in the class of Petar Skala. He was a guest student in Madrid and Berlin and is currently a PhD student. He lives in Belgrade with frequent, unplanned travels.

Kolja Saksida

Koyaa – Lajf je čist odbit / Koyaa – The Extraordinary

Kolja Saksida (Slovenian, born 1981) is active in the field of film as a director, actor and producer. At fifteen he made his debut in the short film Forward by Boris Petković, followed by roles in short films Robbery of the Century, Dark Side of the Moon and feature films like Fuck, Blind Spot, Installation of Love. As an assistant director he participated in the making of Academy Award wining film No Man's Land. Together with Marko A. Kovačič, he directed three animated short films featuring the Plastos Civilization. Until now his most notable production was the animated series Koyaa that was shown on the Slovenian national television throughout the 2005 season of the TLP show. In 2009 he realized a short puppet animated film entitled Kiddo – Slingshot. In 2011 he realized a short animated film Koyaa – The Extraordinary. Saksida participated as an ‘’artist in residence’’ at CEC Arts Link (New York), Talent Campus (Berlin and Sarajevo), Animwork - Open Workshop (Denmark), Nipkow Programm (Berlin), won two awards from the Association of Slovenian filmmakers and special jury price at the Alternative film festival. In recent years he has organized and conducted workshops for children, youth and students. Saksida is a co-founder and director of production house ZVVIKS, based in Ljubljana – Slovenia.

Marta Pajek

Snępowina / Sleepincord

Marta Pajek was born in 1982 in Kielce/Poland. She graduated at the faculty of Graphics of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. During her studies she made two animated shorts - After Apples and Nextdoor. Currently works as a free-lance animator. Sleepincord is her professional debut.

Veronica Solomon

How to Deal with Nonsense

Born in Romania in 1980, currently living in Berlin, Germany. At the age of 10 she decided that she wanted to do animated cartoons. After trying out different areas of art, finishing with a BA in Ceramics (2003), she began a self-training process to become an animator alongside doing comics and illustration. Currently she is a freelance illustrator and animator. In October she started studying Animation at the HFF “Konrad Wolf” Potsdam-Babelsberg.

Serge Besset

Working Breakfast: Composer Serge Besset

Serge Besset is a French music composer. He is particularly known for his work as a composer of soundtracks for animated films, having composed more than 400 such works since 1980. He has also worked on the creation of music for documentaries, childrenʼs series, and commercials. He is the composer of many original soundtracks for Jacques Rémy Girerd, Michaël Dudok De Wit, Alain Gagnol, Jean Loup Felichioli, Youri Tcherenkov, Jean Luc Greco, Laurent Pouvaret, etc.

Many of his works have been nominated for Academy Awards. He composed scores for films A cat in Paris, Mia and the Migoo, Raining cats and frogs, Spud and the vegetable garden, Charlieʼs Christmas, My little planet, The monk and the fish, and for hundreds of animated short movies...

Serge Besset works at Folimage, a French animation studio, a centre for frame-by-frame creativity where almost anything is possible. Folimage is a magical place that has been built up gradually thanks to the will, the talent and the imagination of around a hundred artists and technicians. It's a factory crammed with bold ideas, tubes of colour, reasonable computers, pencil leads, sharpeners, light-boxes, friendly cameras, plasticine characters, small movements both tender and sincere, gales of laughter, lots of support, lots of challenges but lots to fall in love with. It is synonymous with an unfailing determination, over almost twenty years, to produce films of quality.

Wiktoria Pelzer

Round Table: Animation, Music, Sound
Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Clip, Klapp, Bum

is a student of Theatre, Film and Media Science in Vienna. Since 2008 she has been working for the short film festival VIS Vienna Independent Shorts, as a curator, organizer, and coordinator of the supporting events of VIS during the year. Since fall 2009 she is also the assistant artistic coordinator and co-coordinator of the Animation Avant-Garde section. She is in charge of program coordination at Crossing Europe FilmFestival in Linz. She also works / has worked for several festivals in Europe, among them the Stuttgart Filmwinter, the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Impakt (Utrecht) etc.

Rastko Ćirić

Round Table: Animation, Music, Sound

(born in 1955 in Belgrade) is involved with the fields of illustration, animation, graphic design, art graphics, comics, ex-libris, music, bizzare sex. He comes from an artists family. His father, prof. Milos Ciric, was one of the foremost Yugoslav graphic designers and heraldry experts, and his mother Ida Ciric an important children books illustrator. Rastko graduated in 1979 and obtained a Master's Degree in 1982 at the Faculty of Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade. Now Associate Professor of Illustration at the same school. Chief of the Animation Department at the Dunav Film School, Belgrade. Secretary General of the Belgrade Ex-libris Circle. He is a member of ULUPUDS, ASIFA, Belgrade Ex-libris Circle, Yugoslav "Art Directors Club". He is the author of many illustrated books. He designed over 220 logos for different companies. 26 one-man exhibitions, over 180 group exhibitions. Author of 11 animated films and over 50 commercial animatons.
In 1988 he co-founded AAA (Avala Animation Studio) together with R. Munitic & V. Vlajic. He has received international and Yugoslav awards for animation and illustration. He illustrates for the Proletarac (1973-1975), Politikin Zabavnik (since 1986) and the New York Times Book Review (since 2002).

Andrea Martignoni

Round Table: Animation, Music, Sound

Taking advantage of my graduation thesis on sound and music in animation, I got the chance to spend one year in Montreal in the French-speaking province of Quebec and to get in touch with some of the most exciting stuff I had experienced so far. This led to a radio project, followed shortly by a CD on Montreal sound landscape, designed as an 'image-free conceived' movie. A chacun son dépanneur was composed between 1997 and 1998 and broadcasted by Radio Rai Tre and Radio Canada in 1998 and 1999. From then on I have been working on moving images sound and developed a deep interest in animation film history and theory. The absolute freedom in animated films and the creation of a soundtrack is a stirring and exciting experience, especially when working on the right project with a partner of your choice.

Pierre Yves Drapeau

Round Table: Animation, Music, Sound
Working breakfast: Pierre Yves Drapeau: Film Sound & Music
Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Pierre Yves Drapeau: Film Sound & Music

Composer and sound designer, Pierre Yves Drapeau creates soundtracks for animated films and series. He receives mandates both for music and sound design as well as for the production of the whole soundtrack. He started his career in 2001 as Normand Roger’s assistant, with credits for sound editing. Over the years as he was being involved increasingly in music and sound design, Pierre Yves started to work on his own as composer and sound designer. Since 2007, Pierre Yves has been working independently and also kept working in collaboration with his great mentor Normand Roger on many productions. He has been associated with the work of some well-known figures of animation such as Marv Newland, Piotr Sapegin, Alexandre Petrov, Chris Landreth, Theodore Ushev, Vladimir Leschiov, Pierre-Luc Granjon, Regina Pessoa, Nicolas Brault, Craig Welch, Sheldon Cohen and many others. 

Although he has specialized in animation, within which he has been working mainly on NFB productions and co-productions since 2001, he also works on documentaries, features and multimedia shows. In 2009, he founded STUDIOTOONS Inc., a creative and technical sound post-production services company specializing in animation.

Ewa Sobolewska

Animating Classical Music: Musical Film Miniatures From Poznan

Ewa Sobolewska is a producer, executive producer, script-editor. In 1977 she graduated from the University A. Mickiewicz in Poznan, Poland. From 1980 to 2001, she worked in the TV Studio of Animation Films – Polish Television S. A. in Poznan (editor, promotion specialist, production manager, producer). Since 2001 she has served as President of the Management Board, TV Studio of Animation Films Ltd. in Poznan, Poland and since 2006 as President of the Management Board of the Foundation for Arts and Film Education AnimaFilm.

As executive Producer and script-editor she worked on a number series of animated films directed both at children and young audiences. Her main awards include the Press Award – “My Oscars” (1999) for the film On the Quarrel of All Quarrels, and the Recognition Of Achievement Award (2005) for her great contribution to the development of the Polish animated film.

Andrej Goričar

Focus na Spain I

Andrej Goričar was born in Ljubljana in 1971. While studying piano at the Academy of Music, Ljubljana, he received Prešeren student award. He completed his studies by performing the original version of Gershwin's Rhapsody in blue together with RTV Slovenia symphony orchestra conducted by Carl Davis.

In years 1996 –2002, he was the principal of St Stanislav's Institution music school, where he also conducted a light orchestra. In years 1996–2007 he was the resident pianist of the Slovenian Cinematheque, where he performed a wide repertoire of silent classics and many retrospectives at home and abroad. He also wrote scores for the silent films Sunrise (F. W. Murnau, USA, 1924 – the first orchestra score for a silent feature film in Slovenia) and V kraljestvu Zlatoroga (J. Ravnik, 1931).

After 2002 he became a freelance artist with a particular focus on composing. He makes compositions and arrangements for diverse music groups and genres ranging from classical to entertainment and film music. He also composes for the theatre.In 2010 he was the winner of the International Composing Competition “2 Agosto” in Bologna, Italy, where the jury was headed by Ennio Morricone.

Milen Alempijevič

Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Film & Jazz (lecture by Milen Alempijević)
Animation, Music, Sound Retrospective: Animated Film & Jazz

Milen Alempijević (1965) works for the Cultural Centre in Čačak (Serbia) as the managing editor of the film and video programme and art director of the ANIMANIMA international animation festival. Milen has a degree in Economics, but since mid 1990s has been professionally involved in the area of culture and media. He started his career working for a radio station, where he was the editor of several programmes about culture and art, especially a serial on jazz entitled the ‘Congo Square’, which had, during two cycles of broadcasting, around 400 episodes. Milen joined the staff of the Cultural Centre in Čačak at the end of 1990s, to become the PR manager of the Centre, as well as the editor of the art and culture magazine Art 032 which, among other novelties, featured regular articles on jazz, contributed by several important Serbian jazz authors, translators and musicians. During this period, Milen organised a series of events in the Čačak Cultural Centre, featuring jazz musicians from home and abroad (Bora Roković, Joachim Schöneker, Michael Hornstein, Jazz Pistols, Zvonimir Tot, Jazz Consilium, Branko Maćić...).

The author of ten published books belonging to different genres, Milen has been part of the Serbian contemporary literature scene, while for the past few years he has also contributed a number of articles on jazz, film, literature and animated film to various daily newspapers, as well as culture and specialised magazines (‘Politika’, ‘Koraci’, ‘Polja’, ‘TFT’, ‘Filaž’ and others). In 2007, Milen initiated the ANIMANIMA festival. Milen is the author of the following multimedia presentations/lectures: Jazz Themes Chat (American Corner, Kragujevac, 2009), Jazz and Animated Film: Dreams Come True in New Orleans (Balkanima, Novi Beograd, 2010), Django Reinhardt: Genius of French Jazz (Jazz Festival of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, 2010), Animated Zoology (Animanima, Čačak, 2011).

Projects in 2012: Jazz, thematic edition of the ‘Gradac’ art and culture magazine, (compiler); book of essays on animated film, The Art of Exaggeration: Notes of a Viewer (author).

Andrej Kolencik

Fest Anča

Andrej Kolenčík is a film director and visual artist. He graduated from Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bratislava. At present he´s working as a freelance film director of fiction and also animation films as well as a program director of well known Slovak internatinal animation festival Fest Anča.

Pavel Horáček

AniFest

Born in České Budějovice in 1984, he majored in film theory and history and audiovisual culture at Masaryk University in Brno. In his bachelor’s and master’s theses, he addressed expressive means and specific animation techniques, particularly in Czech animated film. He has collaborated with the Olomouc-based Festival of Film Animation (PAF) and published works on animation in Literární noviny, Cinepur, 25fps.cz, czechanimation.cz, to name but a few. As a juror he joined to FIA Stockholm animation festival in 2010. He is currently the Program Director at the AniFest International Festival of Animated Films.

Vjera Matković

Animafest Zagreb

Born in 1979 in Rijeka, Croatia. Graduated in English and Czech language and literature from the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb and completed interdisciplinary postgraduate studies of Management in Culture and Cultural Policy University of Arts in Belgrade/Université Lyon 2) specializing in the field of festival management. For years worked as a freelance translator and later as a producer at a studio for audiovisual production. Since 2007 has worked in 'Hulahop Ltd' as the producer of the World Festival of Animated Films – Animafest Zagreb.

Maya Yonesho

Children's workshop

Maya Yonesho was born in Hyogo, Japan in 1965. She studied Visual Design and Animation at Kyoto Saga University of Arts. After working as an art teacher at a junior high school for 6 years, she returned to college to study Japanese painting and conceptual and media art at Kyoto City University of Arts and also worked as a clay animator for children's TV programme. When studying at the Royal College of Art, UK as an exchange student, she made her first abstract animated short film dubbed into 13 international languages based on the theme “we can understand each other without understanding each language”. After receiving her MA in fine art (1998), she began making independent films, one of them being “believe in it”, which in 1998 won the Excellence prize of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan. From 2002 to 2003 she was training at Eesti Joonisfilm Studio, Estonia under the Japanese Government Study Program for Promising Artists and Art Fellowships, and made “Üks Uks” with 8 Estonian bookbinding artists. She made a trailer for the Tricky Women International Female Animation Festival in 2005. Her films have been shown at numerous international festivals and museums, including Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany and Design museum in Estonia. She has also been conducting various animation workshops. “Wiener Wuast” was shot in Vienna with the real view, with a drawing in her hand. She has done workshops in the same way in Taiwan, Norway, Croatia, Israel, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Korea, USA, Serbia and Latvia. It will be continued as her life work. She has been a lecturer at Kyoto Seika University since 2000.

Filmography: introspection (1998), believe in it (1998), learn to love (1999), countdown(2002), Üks Uks (2003), Winer Wuast (2006)