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.

Aistė Misiūnaitė is an emerging animation director who graduated in 2025 with a Master’s degree in Animation from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her debut short animated film, Night Confession, was created as her graduation project. In her work, Aistė explores psychological themes – how inner states, traumas, and fears can be brought to the surface through animation, and how art can become a tool for confronting rather than suppressing them.

Andreas Granér (b. 1986) is an artist and animator from Stockholm, Sweden. With a background in drawing and music, he discovered animation as a natural fusion of his creative interests.
He studied at Animationsakademien in Stockholm, where he began exploring storytelling through a playful DIY spirit, combining hand-drawn animation with his own music compositions. His debut short film Siri Wonder premieres at BLON this year.

Antanas Skucas, a film director and data artist, lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. His debut animation short “Childhood Diary” was awarded by the Lithuanian Silver Crane Award. In 2015 he established a film production company “Tylus kinas”. Also works with new media, XR, VR, AR, AI.

Anu-Laura Tuttelberg graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2013 with an MA in Animation, specializing in stop-motion. Her graduation film Fly Mill won 20 prizes globally. Her first post-graduation film, On The Other Side Of The Woods, premiered at the Annecy International Animation Festival and won 12 awards across 85 festivals. Winter in the Rainforest, the first in her nature trilogy, premiered at Annecy in 2019, winning 13 festival prizes and the Estonian Cultural Endowment Award. Anu-Laura, known for her set designs in stop-motion films, won the 2022 Estonian Film and TV Award for Best Production Design. She teaches animation at her alma mater.

Aurelijus Čiupas is an animator, director, and audio-visual artist from Lithuania. His practice is driven by relentless exploration and tinkering with new media technologies, reflected in his work with VFX in animated films, interactive installations, and recently - generative AI.
Through his MA degree in animation, obtained at Estonian Academy of Arts in 2024, Aurelijus refined his practice as a filmmaker and combined it with unconventional digital animation techniques, seeking to employ generative AI with purpose and finesse.
His MA thesis was realized through an ongoing educational blog that seeks to demystify AI technology in the context of animation art while presenting contemplative insights and critique.

Beatričė Jackutė is an animator, director, and actress working in Lithuania. She started her creative journey at Justinas Vienožinskis Art School in Vilnius and “Animatest”, where she acquired basic animation skills. Beatričė is currently studying at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in the second year of the Animation Studies programme and is deepening her knowledge of character creation and performing arts as a member of the theatre company “Insiti”.

Benedikta Rukaitė is a Lithuanian film production designer and animator. In 2022, she completed her Master’s degree in Media Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She focuses mainly on creating new worlds in stop-motion and 3D animation.

Elijas is an animation student at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, working in the stop-motion technique using and combining different mediums such as clay, puppet animation and video footage. His primary interest when creating animations is re-purposing ready-made objects or existing media to create new environments, characters, and narratives.

I-Hsuan Hsieh is a film curator and writer based in Amsterdam and Taipei. She has programmed and served on selection committees for various film festivals, including Women Make Waves, Singapore Film Festival, TIDF, and Go Short. With an anthropological background, she views cinematic practices as relational socio-technical processes fostering collective agency. She also co-founded Limestone Books in Maastricht.

Ignotas Kuprys creates animation as a way to speak through silence, distance, and what often remains unspoken. His work is shaped by slow observation, internal states, and a relationship with the environment. In both his creative and theoretical explorations, he quietly reflects the importance of nature - not as a background, but as a sensitive, equal part of being. He is drawn to the intersections of noise and silence, presence and withdrawal, and the inner world of a person.

Originally from Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, Iryna graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts, and currently lives in Tallinn. Inspired by the landscapes of her region, the director is interested in exploring the concept of place attachment when it comes to nature, especially in the context of the russian invasion in Ukraine, and how war changes our relationship with a place

Iuliia Kotsiuba (b. 1981, Ukraine) is an animation director and storyboard artist. She studied environmental design and worked in graphic design before switching to animation. She completed animation courses at Projector School in 2021. Her debut short film, My Closet, premieres in 2025.
Iuliia works at Karandash studio on projects like Woof and Joy, Chernobyl, Children of Fire, and Sonechko. She is also developing the feature film Fairywood. Her work features emotional storytelling and strong visuals.

Jakub Bożydar Dolny (born 1998) is a Polish director, animator, and screenwriter of animated films. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and currently a V year student of the Film School in Lodz, majoring in animated film and special effect. In his work, he avoids a moralizing tone, focusing instead on storytelling and the relationships between characters. His debut film Championsheep was recognized at the OIAF festival in Ottawa and received numerous awards, including Best Polish Animated Film at the Animafest Gdańsk. In addition to directing, he collaborates on screenwriting projects and is active in various artistic endeavors.

Jaye Lin is a Taipei-based curator, producer and researcher practising at the intersection of media art and exhibition-making. With interdisciplinary practice in the fields of art and film, she was responsible for several film festivals and projects related to transcultural and transmedia. Collaterally, her recent projects have been intensively involved with human rights and the interpretation of past and colonial history. Lately, she realised the exhibition Exploring Dissenting Voices at the National 228 Memorial Museum in Taiwan.  

Jorė Černiauskaitė - beginning animation director who started her creative journey at Animatest with the film "Can't Bear It".The main themes of her artistic work are the relationship with oneself, the environment and other people. 

Juho Maurinen is a filmmaker, visual artist, animator and musician from Helsinki Finland. He has deep roots in DIY culture and he’s been described as an “unstoppable genre bending creative force”. Maurinen believes in sincerity and personal intuition in all his work and he enjoys finding new ways of creating. 

Julia Dworakowska – Polish graphic designer and illustrator, a graduate of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń with a degree in computer graphics. On a daily basis, she creates posters, illustrations, and backgrounds for animations. Her work incorporates typography, a variety of elements, and textures. She often explores lighthearted and carefree themes.

Julius Zubavičius obtained a Multimedia Director BA degree. In 2011, Julius moved to London to further his film sound designer career, where he continues to live and work. Julius has been working on more than 30 film projects as a sound designer, recordist, and composer.

Kateryna Omelianenko earned a Bachelor’s in Animation Directing from Kyiv National Karpenko-Kary University in 2024. Her film The Bus Stop screened at international festivals like Monstra (Portugal) and Hi FUNNY World (China), and was nominated for Best Animated Short at Ukraine’s Golden Dzyga Awards. She contributed to the animation anthology Cherry Orchard by the House, which screened at the Oscar-qualifying Cleveland Festival and made the Academy Awards longlist. Kateryna specializes in 2D animation, often featuring unique monsters and anthropomorphic animals.

Léa Buffard is french, she arrived in Brussels in 2020 to start animation studies at ENSAV la Cambre. Since then she had her master's degree with a movie made from painting on cellulo. She really enjoys getting her hand dirty with painting as well as the comfort of Ctr+z in digital animation. 

Lin Jo Skytte graduated from the National Film School of Denmark in June 2025 as an animation director. Her graduation film, Korean Bloom, has been selected for several festivals including GENERATION, OFF, BLON, and VAF, and was shortlisted for a ROBERT AWARD.
Inspired by Korean and Japanese non-linear storytelling and authors like Han Kang and Haruki Murakami, Lin creates surreal, poetic worlds focused on human emotions. Her work celebrates the peculiar, intimate, and unexplainable.

Martinus Klemet is an Estonian animation director known for blending surrealism, pop art, grotesque, and humor. He holds a BA in Fine Arts and an MA in Animation from the Estonian Academy of Arts.
His animated shorts have screened internationally and won awards. Besides films, he directs music videos, commercials, museum projects, and more.
Martinus has spoken about his work worldwide and mentored students at the Estonian Academy of Arts. He is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD exploring new narratives combining animation and improv theatre.

Martynas Genkovas is a 3D artist with a passion for photography, visual arts, and graphic design. His inspiration comes from bringing ideas to life—whether through the lens of a camera or the limitless canvas of the digital world.

His journey in the creative realm began with a fascination for light and form, which naturally led him to explore the intricate details of graphic design and the immersive possibilities of 3D art. He thrives on blending these disciplines: his painted works often reflect the mood and composition of his 3D renders, while his design sensibilities shape the visual storytelling across all his projects.

From crafting intricate 3D models and environments to designing compelling graphics, he enjoys the challenge of transforming concepts into captivating visual experiences. Always striving to push creative boundaries, he continually explores new techniques and seeks innovative ways to tell stories.

Martynas graduated in Graphic Design and later continued his studies in Photography and Media Art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where he successfully completed his degree.

Matas Pakutinskas is a Lithuanian animator and illustrator, holding a Bachelor's degree in Animation from the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His work explores surrealism through the lens of historical context and personal experience, employing metaphor, composition, and symbolism to craft compelling visual narratives.

Nawojka Wierzbowska – director and screenwriter of animated and live-action films, graduate of the Film School in Katowice. Her diploma film A Fairytale for a Restless Night was acclaimed at Polish festivals, while Evil Never Sleeps brought further awards, including FRAPA and the Silver Koziołek. She developed her skills at La Poudrière and Young Horizons Lab, and collaborated with the Munk Studio. Currently, she is working on her feature debut Till Death Unite Us.

Olena Onyshchuk (lulenni) is an animation director, animator, and illustrator based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She focuses on creating touching, relatable stories — often in the genres of drama and adventure, passionate about bringing simple yet emotionally rich narratives to life.
In addition to her work in the animation industry on various projects, including music videos like Likhtaryky for Tonya Matvienko (2025), Patron the dog series (2022-2024), Olena develops personal films that reflect her artistic vision. Her works include Window (2022) and Memoirs (2024), the latter being her graduation film for Kyiv National University of Theater, Cinema and Television.

Olga Abramova graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, where she studied animation. She is interested in urban spaces and their development, and her work is inspired by urban dystopian imagery. "Glimpses among parallels" is her bachelor thesis and debut film.

Rebeka Salomėja Kavaliauskaitė (25) grew up in a creative family in Ignalina – a small town surrounded by nature and lakes where her artistic worldview began to take shape. Her inclination toward introspection, combined with the influence of her surroundings, became fundamental to her creative expression. Personal memories of relatives and neighbors, along with a sensitive observation of global events, naturally blended into her work. Animation became a natural medium through which she could express these experiences. After completing her vocational studies in media design, she continued her education at Vilnius College of Technologies and Design (now VIKO), where she earned a bachelor’s degree in animation. Currently, Rebeka is pursuing a master’s degree in animation at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. In recent years, she has created two animated short films – Notes (2023) and Home (2024).

Rimantė Daugėlaitė has been the head of the Vilnius Short Film Festival since 2009, and co-founder and the managing director of the Lithuanian Short Film Agency, "Lithuanian Shorts," since 2012. Rimantė has been working in the audiovisual industry for more than ten years and has coordinated multiple audiovisual and film promotion projects, also produced several Lithuanian short films. R. Daugelaite works as an expert in European and national audiovisual and cultural funds. She is a member of the "EWA Network” and the European Film Academy.

Film director, animator, illustrator based in Lithuania. Creates animated films, underground music videos, draws film industry meta comics, works as an assistant director on movie sets.

Rusnė Dragūnevičiūtė is an animator from Vilnius, Lithuania. In 2022 she graduated from University of the Arts London with a bachelor's degree in Animation Arts and chose to continue her artistic development at the Royal College of Art. In her work Rusnė focuses on themes of nostalgia and friendship, creating textured and colourful worlds of light through both traditional and digital means. Currently, she is interested in developing an animated series.

Santeri Laasanen is a Helsinki-based animator, writer, audiovisual artist and teacher of graphic design & animation. He is the director of several short films and music videos, and has dabbled in theatre, poetry and prose. Artistically Santeri is driven and inspired by gonzo, punk & sentimentality, and loves to find beauty in weird and underappreciated genres.

Sonata Vilkevičiūtė is a stop-motion animator who also works with various textile techniques. From a young age, she was interested in animation and doll-making. She attended Kaišiadorys Art School and later graduated from Kaunas Art Gymnasium with a specialization in textiles. For her final arts exam, she decided to explore animation and created her first stop-motion animated short film, "In the Rhythm of a Clock.

She is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Animation at the Vilnius Academy of Arts (VDA), works as an educator with the Animatest team, and occasionally collaborates with the animation studio Kadrų Skyrius.

Ugnė Žvirblytė is currently a second-year animation student at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. What drew her to animation was the complete creative freedom it offers to create eccentric and unconventional things.
In her creative work, she often seeks to address issues and questions that are relevant both to herself and to those around her. She is particularly interested in the relationship between humans and their environment – one of the central themes in her work. She frequently transforms parts of the human body, combining them in unexpected ways to enhance emotional impact.
For her, art is a way to create a personal world – one full of strange chaos and madness. This world helps her explore emotions, identity, and the boundaries of reality.

Wanja J. Sæther is a social worker and manager of the largest crisis center in northern Norway’s Salten region. With over 32 years of experience, she has worked extensively with victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and various social issues including family welfare, youth disadvantage, homelessness, trafficking, and addiction.
Wanja is an active advocate against domestic violence and serves on the board of Norway’s Shelter Movement. She has contributed to books, films, and articles, including a handbook on escaping violence. She also works on ethical issues as a member of a national ethics council. Wanja lives in Steigen and has five children.