Meet the Juries of BLON’s Animation Competitions
Meet the people who will be selecting this year’s BLON winners.
International Competition Jury
Jana Kraft – Programme Director at DOK Leipzig, Germany
Fabian Driehorst – animation producer at Fabian&Fred, Germany
Ieva Šukytė – film journalist, Lithuania
Baltic Sea & Nordic Competition Jury
Kaz Prapuolenis – screenwriter and comic artist, USA
Aušra Juknevičienė – Director of Klaipėda Puppet Theatre, Lithuania
Menghui Huang – Director of Neverland Frames, Finland
Lithuanian Animation Competition Jury
Martin Vandas – producer, Czech Republic
Rafael Motamayor – film critic, Norway
Viktorija Ežiukas – illustrator, Lithuania
Ukrainian Animation Competition Jury
Baptiste Salvan – producer and film distributor, France
Petrit Gora – Artistic Director of REX Animation Film Festival, Sweden
Skaistė Marčienė – Director of the Pranas Domšaitis Gallery, Lithuania
International Young Audience Competition Jury
For this competition, the decision is in the hands of Klaipėda school students. The young jury will watch the films selected especially for younger audiences and choose their own competition winner.
The jurors won’t only be watching and judging films at BLON. You’ll also have a chance to meet some of them across the festival programme, hear them speak and join conversations beyond the cinema screen.
The winners of this year’s BLON competitions will be revealed during the festival, taking place 10–13 September in Klaipėda.
Meet all BLON guests – https://blon.lt/guests
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey to Lithuanian parents. Attended art school in New York City and studied comics with Art Spiegelman (Maus). Drew comics for various publications (The New Yorker, Raw Magazine). Created weekly comic strip, Underworld, that ran newspapers across the US. In 2001, started working in animation as a storyboard writer for Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Disney. In 2015, shifted to writing animation scripts. In addition to TV work, has co-written 3 SpongeBob feature films.
