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Giedrė Burokaitė (1985) is a film producer. She holds a BA degree in Cultural History and Anthropology and a MA degree in Arts management. She works in film production since 2012. Giedrė produced number of short films and a feature lenght documentary „Animus Animalis“ (dir. Aistė Žegulytė), which was premiered at DOK Leipzig, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs and other festivals. Currently she is working on two short animated films and a VR project.

A founder and producer of the production company ART SHOT, Agnė Adomėnė, has educational background in culture management (The Master of Management, Department of UNESCO Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, Vilnius Academy of Arts) and works in film business since 2009. Founded in 2012, independent production company ART SHOT focuses on developing, producing and co-producing artistic animated films. n 2016 ART SHOT production “Nuopuolis”, Eng. “Ragnarok” (Short puppet animation directed by Urtė Oettinger and Johan Oettinger, Lithuanian – Denmark co-production) was awarded by Lithuanian Film Academy as The Best Lithuanian Animation Film of the year.

Marija Razgutė – film producer, International Short Film Festival “Vilnius Film Shorts” organizer, European Film Forum “Scanorama” international short film competition programme “New Baltic Cinema” coordinator, Lithunian Short Film Agency “Lithuanian Shorts” co-founder, cinema education project “Film Forge” coordinator.

James Pollock is an immersive media designer and multidisciplinary creative based in Bristol, England. Since working at creative studio Burrell Durrant Hifle, James has lead design on a number of virtual reality projects, from science and nature documentaries, to rollercosters through famous surrealist paintings, to interactive live-action dramas. His role involves working through projects from early concepts, throughout production and release, leading design and coordinating development efforts.

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Javier Garcia-Lajara has more than 20 years of experience working with digital graphics, first in the most important video game companies in Spain like PyroStudios, creators of Commandos saga and Planet 51, and in the last 5 years focusing his activity in Virtual Reality production.

Former Future Lighthouse 3D Dept. Director, creators of many award-winning productions like Melita, Snatch VR, El Ministerio del Tiempo.

Specialist in real time 3D production and photogrammetry, Unity and Unreal expertise.

Now running his own production company, Overlat.

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Chintis Lundgren is an Estonian-born animator currently living in Croatia. 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.

After being awarded his Diploma in Communications Design from the HAW Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Jon worked as Art Director with Scholz und Friends Berlin. Since 2006, he has been a freelance animation director and illustrator. He wrote and animated more than 50 contributions for the satirical TV show extra3. With the production company SFA, which he founded together with Till Penzek, he has produced animations for WDR Quarks und Co., Arte Karambolage, Sesame Street (NDR / KiKa), etc. His short film CAT DAYS/NEKO NO HI premiered at the 2018 Berlinale. The animation film has received numerous international awards, including two prizes at FILMFEST DRESDEN, and qualified for the Academy Awards. CAT DAYS was nominated for the German Short Film Prize and the European Animation Awards. Jon Frickey regularly does illustrations for magazines, packaging and advertising, for which he has received ADC awards. Jon Frickey lives and works in Hamburg.

Born on May 8, 1975 in Tallinn.
He has been interested since childhood in drawing comic strips and writing stories for which he made illustrations himself. His first moving pictures came into being in the corners of his school notebooks. Later in his school years, his brother’s friend, who was a member of a film club, helped him make a short plasticine puppet animated film.
This was followed by a two-year period as a working youth, which was not particularly educational, but was brimming with adventures. During that time he began working systematically with music. He has been part of the creative core of several rock groups, written song lyrics, made arrangements and created tunes. He enrolled at the Tallinn Pedagogical University in 1996.
He completed his first films at that school – the silent film “Dr. Maisarve and the Matshalka Case” (1996) and the cutout puppet film “Flight of the Little White Helicopter” (1996), which was screened at rock concerts and also on television. He transferred from the Pedagogical University to the Turku Arts and Media School in Finland in 1997 to study animation under the guidance of Priit Pärn.
He made his debut film “Romance” (1999) in Turku, and it has participated in several international film festivals.

Malte Stein is an independent animation film maker and writer based in Berlin. In 2013, he graduated from the University of Film and Television “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam Babelsberg with a diploma of animation. Before that, he studied scriptwriting and draw a lot of comic stories since the 90`s. He is currently working on two independent animation films. His films “Blue Dream” from 2013 and “Flood” from 2018 were screened on many Festivals all over the world and won quite a number of Awards.

Elli Vuorinen is an independent animation director, who lives and works in rural Finland. Her works often balance between surreal, delightful and disgusting. Although her approach is often humoristic the films deal with significant themes of melancholy, solitude and hope.
Elli's style is versatile - blending of minimal and handcrafted, she creates works that are playful and bold. Different animation techniques inspire her work. Elli's farm studio allows her to work with everything between large scale stop motion to 2D computer animation.
She graduated as an Animation Director from Turku Arts Academy. Her five previous films have been shown at various festivals and won numerous awards. She has done many commissioned works and worked in several TV and film productions as a animator, editor, director and designer.

Born in 1987, Lizete Upīte is an animation film director from Latvia.
Lizete began her studies in audiovisual media in Baltic Film and Media school, Estonia, but after Erasmus exchange studies in Portugal, changed her major to animation. In 2013, after finishing school of directing animation La Poudrière in France, Lizete has been working on several animation projects as well as directed her two animation short films "Night Walks" (2018, produced by Atom Art (Latvia)) and "Riga's Lilac" (2019, coproduced by Papy3D (France) and Atom Art (Latvia)).

Moritz Biene is a Berlin based animation artist. He studied animation at Film University Konrad Wolf Potsdam Babelsberg. For more than nine years he works in animation, contributing to many different projects, ranging from commercial Videos to TV-series and Computer Games.

Piotr Milczarek was born and lives in Lodz. He studied animation and special effects at the Film School in Lodz, where he is currently working as an assistant. He has directed short films such as 'The Comic Book,' 'The War of the Worlds,' 'Mr Mister' and The Cockroach." He has also
cowritten the script for 'Moonshine' by Michał Poniedzielski, cooperated on the award-winning 'Switeź' by Kamil Pola (storyboard, artwork), as well as worked as an animator of Balbina Bruszewska's 'The City is Flowing' and Magdalena Osińska's 'Little Joys.' Otherwise, he creates storyboards for commercials

Gediminas is an illustrator, working in the fields of animation, concept art, games, books and prints. He was the background artist for "Snow Shelter", and many other animated films. Gediminas is also a big fan of fantasy and sci-fi art, architecture and basketball.

Pijus Balkaitis, born 1991, animation BA at Vilnius Academy of Arts, works with 2D animation and graphics.

1995 born in Vilnius. 2012 finished Eduardas Balsys gymnasium of Arts in Klaipeda with an animated short OPEN-HEARTED TREE. 2017 finished BA animation degree in Vilnius Academy of Arts with an animated documentary short HOLY ROUTINE. Currently studying MA Graphics in Vilnius Academy of Arts. Full package of animator, illustrator, street artist and visual artist also known as Pidžin.