Wouter Jansen
Wouter Jansen is the founder of the sales company Square Eyes. In 2013 he started Some Shorts, which changed to Square Eyes in 2019, which specializes in having outstanding non-mainstream films find the audience and recognition they deserve. With Square Eyes, Wouter represents bold, author-driven features and shorts, and collaborates closely with the filmmakers to devise bespoke festival distribution and sales strategies. In the past, he worked as the head of programming at the Go Short – International Film Festival during the first 10 editions. Wouter is an expert for Locarno Open Doors and First Cut Lab, and has been giving lectures at schools like Le Fresnoy, HEAD Geneva and Netherlands Film Academy. He has moderated as well as lead workshops at festivals like IDFA, True/False, Winterthur, VIS Vienna Shorts and others. He is a Berlinale Talents alumnus.
Jenny Jokela
Jenny Jokela (1990, Finland) is a BAFTA long-listed animation director and artist based in Edinburgh, UK. She graduated in MA Animation from Royal College of Art, London, in 2017. Her graduation film Barbeque (2017) won multiple awards including Cristal for best graduation film at Annecy 2018. Jenny works as self-employed animation director. In 2022 she collaborated with classical music composer Sebastian Hilli, and made Hibernation (25 minutes), a hand-painted animation that was performed around Europe live with a large ensemble. The premiere was in the Pompidou Centre in Paris in June ’22. She has also directed children’s TV series Hoppsorna (YLE, Finland, 2018-2022) and Arne Alligator (SF Studios, Sweden, 2023). Her commercial clients include BBC, Tate, Adult Swim, Coldplay, Channel 4, Disney, UEFA and Vogue.
Chintis Lundgren
Chintis Lundgren is an Estonian-born animator currently living in France. Self-taught, Lundgren’s body of work includes an assortment of quirky music videos, PSAs, and short films featuring a light, absurdist tone along with distinct anthropomorphic characters. In 2011, Lundgren created her own animation studio called Chintis Lundgreni Animatsioonistuudio and later co-founded Adriatic Animation, an animation studio based in Croatia.
Her films (including the award-winning shorts, Manivald (2017) and Life with Herman H. Rott (2015)) have screened at numerous international festivals including Sundance, Annecy, Animafest Zagreb, Hiroshima and Ottawa.
Izibene Oñederra
Animation filmmaker Izibene Oñederra (1979, Spain) is a doctor and lecturer of the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU. Hezurbeltzak, a Common Grave (2007), which she directed, was shown at important international competitions such as the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and received numerous awards and mentions. The short films Hotzanak, For Your Own Safety (2013) and Lursaguak (2019) were in competition at Annecy. She has also participated in the films of the group that emerged from the Faculty of Fine Arts and worked on Isabel Herguera’s feature film El sueño de la sultana / Sultana’s Dream (2023). In collaboration with Sultana Films, she produced her latest animated short film When It Comes (It Will Have Your Eyes), which premiered at the Annecy Film Festival.
Jonatan Schwenk
Jonatan Schwenk (*1987) is a German director, animator, producer and sound designer. His animated short films have gained widespread acclaim at major international festivals. His graduation film, Zoon (2022), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to be featured in around 150 festivals, including AFI and Telluride. It received numerous awards, notably in Ottawa, Hiroshima, and Stuttgart (Lotte Reiniger Promotion Award 2023).
Schwenk’s film Sog (2017) garnered around 40 prizes and mentions, including a Cristal for a Graduation Film at Annecy, and was showcased at festivals such as SXSW, Ottawa and Animafest Zagreb.
After attending Berlinale Talents in 2020, Schwenk participated in the NEF writing Residency for animated films in Fontevraud (2022) and the European Animation Development Lab “Animation Sans Frontières” (2023/2024), as well as the CEE Forum 2024 to pitch his newest short film in development, ANT.