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Discussion moderator. An enthusiast of animation and video games, as a teenager Bernardas created amateur games and animated films, and wanted to be Gordon Freeman (a character from the game Half-Life) when he grew up. Several years ago, some of his short films appeared at the Pravda One Minute festival. Bernardas believes his film directing course has been his most fun learning experience to date. Even though he never ended up becoming a director or programmer (or Gordon Freeman – he still doesn't need glasses), Bernardas uses this experience successfully in his work on radio and television, and still feels a respectful nostalgia when playing games and watching animations.

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

Allan became involved in the games industry with the Amiga demo scene in the early 90s. He has worked as a musician, game designer, level designer and project manager, as well as an executive producer at InterActive Vision with over 40 games published between 1997 and 2007. Allan later joined Unity as CEO of Unity Studios. Today, he is a Senior Business Developer and mentor at Game Hub Denmark, hobby board game designer and electronic music producer.

Vytautas is managing a new fund, created by a group of private Baltic/Scandinavian investors. The new initiative was formed mostly by games industry veterans from Unity and other studios, currently launching a seed investment fund and starting to build games pipeline.

Ole Wendorff-Østergaard has wide experience in co-production and film finance from films such as “Antichrist” by Lars von Trier, “The Model” by Mads Matthisen, and “Another Day of Life”. From 2007 to 2010, Ole was a financial producer at Zentropa in Denmark. Ole has co-produced with the following countries: France, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK, Hungary and Germany. After moving to Poland in 2008, he started up Zentropa International Poland and worked as Delegate Producer for Platige Image until the completion of the animated feature “Another Day of Life”. The film premiered in the official selection of Cannes 2018, and won the Audience Award at San Sebastian IFF, as well as European producer of the year Cartoon Movie. Another Day of Life also won the EFA's European Animation Film award. Ole is currently back in Denmark, where he works at the Danish Film Institute as producer for fiction film, and production consultant for the Public Service Fund, which supports TV series.

Ole Wendorff-Østergaard has wide experience in co-production and film finance from films such as “Antichrist” by Lars von Trier, “The Model” by Mads Matthisen, and “Another Day of Life”. From 2007 to 2010, Ole was a financial producer at Zentropa in Denmark. Ole has co-produced with the following countries: France, Spain, Belgium, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK, Hungary and Germany. After moving to Poland in 2008, he started up Zentropa International Poland and worked as Delegate Producer for Platige Image until the completion of the animated feature “Another Day of Life”. The film premiered in the official selection of Cannes 2018, and won the Audience Award at San Sebastian IFF, as well as European producer of the year Cartoon Movie. Another Day of Life also won the EFA's European Animation Film award. Ole is currently back in Denmark, where he works at the Danish Film Institute as producer for fiction film, and production consultant for the Public Service Fund, which supports TV series.