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.

Born in Gdynia, Poland, in June 2000, Alicja is an alumna of the Art High School in Gdynia (2020). She currently studies animation at the University of Art in Poznań.

In 2008, Antanas graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts with a Master of Arts. His diploma was based on Lithuanian mythological beings (mitologija.lt). Antanas' filmography includes "Copy of Paste" (2006), a humorous movie about computer icons living their lives in a computer world and "Nebaigta pasaka" (Unfinished Story, 2007), about the massive die-off of a beehive. He worked with his professor Ilja Bereznickas, on the movie Cyber Pirate. He is currently working on the movies "Vaikystes dienorastis" (director and animator) and "The Vanishing of the Bees"(artist, animator).
Antanas worked for a number of commercials, including those of national TV channel, Baltijos TV, for the 2005/2006 season. He also made video installations for local pop-group Saulės Kliošas for their participation at the national Eurovision Contest.

Austėja Gaputytė is a VFX Producer from Vilnius. During her 10 years in the film industry, Austeja has taken on various roles, from project development and serviced production coordination to leading an entire post-production studio. For the last two years, she has been producing visual effects for major Hollywood film projects in various European VFX studios. Outside of her own work, she sometimes helps smaller projects created by her friends to see the light of day.

Dovilė Rapalytė is a young Lithuanian artist, passionate about animation and a recent graduate of the Vilniaus Academy of Art, where she received a BA in Animation. While she has previously worked on films as an auxiliary illustrator/video editor, “Tail wags the dog” is the first movie she has created by herself. Dovilė and her friends are currently working closely with the Lithuanian Game Developers Association to develop and publish a game together.

Emilija is a first-year BA animation student at VDA, whose work "Bestija", showing in the festival, is her first ever short film.

Eva is currently in her final year of studies at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (Photography, animation and media art department). She is co-founder of the “Script/framing/photo-animation visualisation” course at the Open School of Art, Design and Architecture (VAA). Mostly using animation as a tool for contemporary installations, she has also begun to create animated feature films. In 2021, as part of the Erasmus programme, Eva studied Animation Design at ArtEZ University of the Arts in the Netherlands, where she created the short experimental 2D animated film “I Am Tired”, which is presented at this year's BLON festival.

Gabija Butkutė is an animation student at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She approaches art as self-analysis; a way of getting to know myself and others. Currently, she enjoys examining and illustrating a people's inner worlds, experiences, and psychological problems.

Gediminas is an illustrator and art director, working mostly at developing the style of animation backgrounds. Having started his professional illustration career in gaming (doing both concept art and in-game visuals), he now has experience in multiple fields of illustration – animation, games, book and album covers, prints. His animation projects include "Snow Shelter" (2020), "Mora Mora" (2022), "After Death, Before Hell" (2017), the "Witch Hunter" movie promo animation (2015), "Aurora's Sunrise" (2022), and "Garrano" (2022).

In 2015, Lithuanian film producer Giedrė Burokaitė established a film production platform at the NGO "Meno avilys“. In 2020, she graduated from the Emerging Producer Workshop. Giedrė has produced a number of short films and a feature-length documentary, "Animus Animalis (a Story about People, Animals and Things)", directed by Aistė Žegulytė, which premiered at DOK Leipzig (2018). The film received awards from the Lithuanian Film Academy in three categories, including Best Documentary film. In 2019, together with director-animator Robertas Nevecka, Giedrė founded the film production company “Akis bado”. In 2022, a short animated film produced by Giedrė, “Mora Mora” (dir. Jurga Šeduikytė), was awarded the Silver Crane for Best Animation of the Year at the Lithuanian National Awards.

Greta was born and raised in a small town in central Lithuania. She is currently studying the art of animation at the University for the Creative Arts in the UK, and aims to become a professional character animator. "The Only Shot" (2022) is her first short film. This year, Greta has also finished her second short film, and contributed to an explanation film for the charity CATTs.

Hleb Kuftseryn is an animator and animation director with experience in the fields of both commercial and non-commercial animation.
In 2016, Hleb finished his Bachelor studies in Visual Design and Media at the European Humanities University (Lithuania). In 2022, he graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts with a Master's degree in Fine Arts.
Hleb's animation career started in 2016 and consists of cases of work for various films for Belarusian, Lithuanian, Russian and Estonian animation studios (Belarusfilm, PetPunk, Soyuzmultfilm, Bop animation) as well as with various independent animation film directors, combining it with work on commercial advertising animation and theatrical stage projections.
Since 2020 Hleb teaches animation courses in several universities in Estonia (Eesti Kunstiakadeemia, Eesti Ettevõtluskõrgkool Mainor) and Lithuania (European Humanities University).

Ida Lepparu is an independent animated film director, animator and artist based in Tallinn, Estonia. She focuses mostly on stop-motion and hand drawn animation.
In 2022, Ida graduated in animation studies from the Estonian Academy of Arts. Prior to this, she worked as an animator, set and puppet master at Eesti Nukufilm on the plasticine stop-motion puppet film "Teofrastus" (2019), and then as an art director on the full-length stop-motion film "Old Man Cartoon Movie" (2019).
In recent years, she has directed the animated shorts "Kraft Paper" (2021), and co-directed the stop-motion puppet film "Trashball'' (2022) with Andrei Bljahhin and Sameliina Paurson. Ida also worked as art director and animator during the development phase of Sergei Kibus´ film "Schrödinger'', chosen as the winner of the Baltic Pitching Forum in 2021.

Ilja Bereznickas is an animator, illustrator, scriptwriter and caricaturist born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1948. He received his Bachelor's in architecture in 1970. In 1985, he graduated from the Postgraduate School of Scriptwriters and Film directors, Moscow, Russia (class of Fyodor Khitruk and Yuriy Norshteyn). From 1985 onwards, Ilja worked at the Lithuanian Film Studio, and since 1990 he has worked in Israel and USA. His cartoons have received awards in Italy, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Russia and Poland.

Julius graduated from the renowned nine-year boys' music school "Azuoliukas". From the age of 13, he began composing electronic music. In 2008, Julius obtained a Multimedia director BA degree, and a sound designers' qualification from the Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy, Film and Theatre faculty. During his studies, Julius participated in several international workshop, where he received multiple nomination and was once awarded first place for best sound. His career as a professional sound designer then continued in the Lithuanian TV, film and advertising industry. In 2011, Julius moved to London to further his career as a sound designer in film. He has made numerous feature-lenth, short films and documentaries as a sound recordist/designer/composer/mixer. He is currently working self employed in Hastings, UK.

Jurga Šeduikytė, also known by her musical stage name – Jurga – is a singer, composer, actress, journalist, writer and social activist. Jurga has released 10 original award-winning albums of music and three books. At this year's National Film Awards in Lithuania, together with a team of creators, she received the Silver Crane for Best Animated Film for "Mora Mora". Jurga has played several leading roles in international films, and voiced dozens of cartoon characters. She is also a well-known presenter of self-development seminars and workshops, and a singing teacher.

Born in 1975, Kaisa Penttilä is a Helsinki-based animation film maker. She has worked on multiple animation projects since the 1990s, as well as short films, music videos, commercials and a TV series. She is currently working on a feature together with Leena Jääskeläinen. Kaisa also loves to play music and do physical exercise.

Karla Riebartsch was born in 1998 in Hamburg, Germany. Following a drawing course at The Animation Workshop in Denmark, she has been studying animation at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2019. Matapacos is the first fully animated film she has directed.

Kristel Tõldsepp has been a producer at the animation studio A Film Estonia since 1996, and has been the owner of the company since 2011. She has a MA in economics, and has attended a number of workshops on TV and animation production across Europe. Kristel has been the production manager of 20 animated feature films and 10 TV series. She has worked on films including "Asterix and the Vikings“, "Niko and the Way to the Stars“ and "Titeuf – the Movie“. Kristel has also produced 10 short films, the TV series "Things You Think“, and the feature film "Raggie“ (2020). Currently, A Film Estonia is producing is next feature film, "Poop, Spring and Others“, to be released on 2023.

Lina is a character designer and 2D animator with a Bachelor's degree in animation and a Master's in visual communication design from the Vilnius Academy of Art. She mostly likes to work with traditional animation, and has worked as an animator on Jurga Šeduikytė’s debut short animated film “Mora Mora”, as well as David Doutel and Vasco Sá’s short animated film “Garrano”.

Born in 1994 near Stuttgart, Germany, Lion Durst took his first steps in filmmaking by shooting music and skate videos outside school. After finishing school he undertook a three-year apprenticeship as an Audiovisual Media Designer, which gave him his first contact with the film and TV industry. After finishing his apprenticeship, Lion continued to work as a freelancer, before beginning a full-time job at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, where he decided he wanted to study – and where he is now in his sixth semester of a screenwriting course.

Martinus Klemet is an animation director hailing from Estonia, whose animated shorts have been screened at several international film festivals. "In the Air" (2009) and "Fatcula" (2016) were both awarded Animation of the Year by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Martyna Kairaitytė discovered her vocation for animation and illustration while working at a tedious job in a dumpling bar. She is now improving her skills and sharpening her virtual pencils in her third year at Vilnius Academy of Arts. In the future, she dreams of expanding Kodleduk's cinematic universe.

Born in 1965, Meelis Arulepp has worked as an animator in various animation studios since 1987. He began working at A.Film Denmark in 1990, and in 1994 co-founded a studio in Tallinn – A Film Estonia. Meelis has worked as the creative head of the studio since then. Meelis´ filmography includes more than 40 feature films, on which he has been the animator-director, designer, storyboarder or supervisor. The list is long, but includes "All Dogs Go To Heaven 2", "The Quest for Camelot", "Help! I´m a Fish", "Asterix and the Vikings", "Titeuf – the Movie" and "Smurfs – the Legend of Smurfy Hollow" to name few. Meelis co-directed the feature film "Raggie" (2020), eight short films and over 300 commercials. He is also a well-known book illustrator and caricaturist.

Born in 1971, Māra Liniņa studied Film Direction and Stage Speech at the Latvian Academy of Culture. Māra began her carrier in animation in the 90s, working as executive artist at the animation studio Dauka. Since then, she has directed seven animation shorts and one feature film. Māra Liniņa has also written scripts for nine films. Since 1998, she has taught elocution and acting, worked as a casting director for Latvian and international film projects, and had several theatre productions.

Natalija Ju is an experienced film director, scriptwriter and producer. Born in Yekaterinburg, Russia, she is a graduate of the philology faculty of Moscow University, and scenario department of the All-Russian Cinematography institute (VGIK). In Lithuania, Natalija created the independent studio “Studija JU”, whose main activities are documentary and TV production. Natalija currently lives in Vilnius, where she is a member of the Lithuanian Union of Cinematography. She is also a member of the Eurasian Academy of Radio and Television.

Pijus Balkaitis is a media artist who draws illustrations, animations and short comics as a way to express himself to the world. Pijus says he feels blessed with being part of this year's BLON festival with the movie "Mora Mora", on which he worked as an in-betweener and technical artist.

Pijus Čeikauskas graduated in 2012 from the Eduardas Balsys Arts Gymnasium with the animated film "Open-Hearted Tree". In 2017, he graduated with a Bachelor's in Animation from the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA) with the film "Holy Routine". In 2021, he graduated from his Master's at VDA with the project "Local Guide". Since then, he has worked with the "Akis bado" team on the animated short films "Snow shelter" and "Mora Mora". A complete package of animator, illustrator, street artist and visualiser, he is also known as Pidžin.

Polina Piddubna is a young Ukrainian multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, social activist and animation student based in Berlin.

Renatas is a data analyst and music producer based in Vilnius, who has been producing electronic music for over 10 years. Renatas contributed to the short animation movie "In A Bubble", working as music director and producer.

Robertas Nevecka is a film director, animator and illustrator. He creates animated films, draws graphic narratives, works as an assistant director on movie sets, and is a co-founder of the animation studio "Akis Bado".

Born in Croatia in 1987, Stanko Stupar grew up in Serbia, briefly lived in Dubai, and currently lives in Berlin, Germany.
In 2020, Stanko founded an animation studio called Crumb, where he works as creative director. Singularity is his directorial debut.
His main career goal is to work with talented people on design-driven animations.
Inspired by the works of Paolo Sorrentino, Jim Jarmusch and David Fincher, Stanko is currently developing several short animations.

Vilma is a motion and graphic designer and animator based in Vilnius, Lithuania. She currently works at BIT, where she lectures in animation. Vilma has participated in the Lithuanian Shorts and Baltic Women in Film mentorship programmes, where she had the opportunity to work with animation directors Urte Oettinger and Lizete Upite. During these mentorship programmes, Vilma created her very first short animation movie "In A Bubble".

Vytautas Kazlauskas was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1988. During his school years, Vytautas discovered his passion for visual effects and animation. This hobby soon turned into a career, leading to more than 14 years helping to create almost every Lithuanian feature film (and many more), from title designs to all sorts of VFX shots. In 2018, he decided to widen his horizons still further, writing a script for the animation film "Blue Moon". Three years of his work can now be seen in the 8 minutes of this autobiographical cosmic journey.