World Panorama

Irina Rubina is an animation director, producer and animator. With her company iraru.films she produces and realises short films, music videos as well as hybrid & collaborative projects that explore the borderland between animation, film, stage-performances, music and dance. She studied animation and documentary film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and GOBELINS, l'école de l’image.

Martina Mestrovic (1974) graduated on a Sculpture department from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1998. She has held several solo and group exhibitions. In 2004, she joins the art collective Kreativni sindikat, working as a 2D and 3D set designer, animator and director. She lives and works in Zagreb.

Wing Yan Lilian Fu is a director and animator with 10 years of experience. She has directed and animated a broad range of TV and commercials with clients including BBC, Mosaic Films Ltd, Radio Television Hong Kong, GoAnimate Studio and Alaraby TV Networks.

Inna Evlannikova (1964, Moscow) is a director, storyboard artist and animator. In 1987 she graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (MARCHI) with a degree in architecture. In 1992 she graduated from vocational school No. 193 (A. Davydov and N. Orlova’s workshop) as an animation artist.

Marc Riba and Anna Solanas have been working in the world of puppet animation for 20 years. They have made several short films which have been selected in more than 1000 festivals around the world.

David Lovrić (1986) works as an animator since 2009. In 2013 he graduated with a master's degree in Animation and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. His graduation film Breakdown was screened at many international film festivals.

Sadegh Javadi Nikjeh was born in Tehran, 1981. He graduated in Graphic Arts. Director and producer of short animations.

Lucie Grannec is a French director and visual artist. She studied l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris. She is particulary interested in weird subculture on the internet.

Stephan Larson started creating images with computers long ago when an Atari 400 showed up in his home. He experiments with 3D animation, predominantly in non-narrative explorations. His work is influenced by biological growth, quantum physics, synesthesia, Abstract Expressionism, eight years of work as a medical animator. He has been teaching at Northern Michigan University since 2001.

Ivana Bošnjak Volda (1983) graduated from the Graphics Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and Animation at the University in Volda, Norway. Ivana is co-director together with her partner Thomas Johnson Volda of two puppet films Simulacra (2014) and Imbued Life (2019) which were produced with Bonobostudio.

Thomas Johnson Volda (Bath, England, 1984) graduated in Time Based Media from the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, and at the New Media Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is multidisciplinary artist often combining animation and performance art disciplines in his work.

Tom Koryto Blumen aspires to create a connection between format and context by using specific locations. His graduation film Friendly Fire shows a unique animation technique that he developed in order to mix together his passion for graffiti and animation.

Diek Grobler lives and works in Pretoria, South Africa. He trained as a visual artist and has been working with animation for 20 years. His films for children have won awards at KROK, Hiroshima, Tindirindis and Teheran. Since 2009 he has focuses in his personal work on animated poetry-film.

The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic inter¬vention in contemporary computer games. They work with tools of appropriation and rededication of game resources. Their films and performances were presented among others at Berlinale ‘20 and at the MoMA in NYC and they recently received the award for the best Austrian short documentary (Diagonale’20, Graz).

Tomek Ducki is a Hungarian-Polish animation director and designer born in Budapest, 1982. He studied animation at the Moholy-Nagy University or Art and Design in Hungary and at the National Film and Television School in the UK. His unmistakable style is characterised by the blending of different animation techniques, visually mesmerising colour combinations and hidden stories. His most known works are his multi awarded short films Life Line and Baths, and music videos for artists such as Basement Jaxx, Zhu or Bipolar Sunshine.

Tessa Moult-Milewska is a British-Polish writer and animation director, a graduate of the National Film and Television School. Her go-to style of animation is stop-motion, but she’s also directed 2D animated kids series, experimented in mix-media as well as worked in advertising. She specializes in short forms with a quirky sense of humour and a dark, whimsical tone.

Asparuh Petrov (1981) worked until 2007 as a motion designer, creating TV idents for several Bulgarian televisions. Since 2007 he has worked as a freelance animation director, and has been creating his own animation projects. Asparuh is one of the lead directors of Compote Collective productions.