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.