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Anders Berthelsen
Anders Berthelsen comes from a classical animation background. At Ja Film he works with concept development, animation and directing. Berthelsen also spends a great deal of time on the heavier business aspects of running the studio, a major challenge for any creative person. His short film The Great Mistake has been invited to several international film festivals including Animated Dreams in Tallinn.
Vaata täisprofiiliAnna Solanas & Marc Riba
Anna Solanas graduated as a sound designer and Marc Riba as a production designer from the Barcelona University of Cinema in Spain. They worked together in their graduation film Black is the Colour of the Gods. After that experience they both fell in love with working with puppets and created their own production company I+G Stop Motion, based in Barcelona. In addition to short films they have produced several advertising and educational animations. Currently they are developing a new TV...
Vaata täisprofiiliDietrich Hasse
Dietrich Hasse has worked for a wide variety of feature films and television productions since 1998 holding positions such as Sequence Animation Lead at Weta Digital for King Kong, Previz Supervisor and Animation Lead for Bully’s Lissy und der wilde Kaiser and Animation Supervisor at VFX Production Company/Los Angeles. Transferring his expertise as an industrial designer into animation and VFX, he very quickly became a missing link between creative and technical aspects within CG productions....
Vaata täisprofiiliHelena Bulaja
Helena Bulaja has created her unique worlds in the field of visual arts, illustration, book design, film, animation and multimedia since 1990. Playing around with tools from handcrafting to cutting edge digital technologies, she likes to explore and stretch the boundaries of the possible. Collaborating with creative minds from all over the world, winning some of the major awards in the filed of interactive storytelling, been well accepted as an emerging documentary filmmaker, always using...
Vaata täisprofiiliIvika Luisk
Ivika Luisk has been working in Nukufilm as a puppet artist and set designer since 1997. She has contributed to more than 15 stop-motion films directed by Mait Laas, Priit Tender, Girlin-Bassovskaja and others. Currently she is working on An Opera of Forgotten Stories: A Rapid Love Story of Lisa Limone and Maroc Orange, a stop-motion feature animation directed by Mait Laas. Luisk studied painting at the Estonian Academy of Arts and spent a year studying in Stockholm. As a painter, she has...
Vaata täisprofiiliKati Kovacs
Kati Kovacs drew her first comics at the age of six and studied at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki, majoring in graphic design. Her first comics were published in Finland in 1988. The first album Green Rhapsody was published in 1994. Since then 11 other books have sprung from her pen, along with longer stories and collections of short stories.. Many of her comics have also been translated and she has participated in several exhibitions all over Europe. Her works have won awards...
Vaata täisprofiiliKristel Tõldsepp
Kristel Tõldsepp is a producer of the animation studio A Film Estonia since 1996 and the owner of the same company since 2011. She has a MA degree in economics and has attended several workshops of TV and animation production around Europe. She has produced several short films and over 200 commercials. A Film Estonia was a sister company of A. Film in Denmark, the major animation production company in the Nordic countries. Through that cooperation Tõldsepp has been a production manager of 15...
Vaata täisprofiiliLeeor Goldberg
Leeor Goldberg is the VP Production at Aniboom. Prior to joining the company he served as Project Group Manager at Orange where he was responsible for developing and managing mobile applications such as Orange GPS and Mobile TV. Before that, he was Founder and CEO of Crew 972, an international company supplying services and content for gaming, film, TV, web, mobile and new media formats, working with clients such as Electronic Arts, ARAD Productions, Ogilvy & Mather, Young & Rubicam...
Vaata täisprofiiliMait Laas
Mait Laas is an international award-winning animation artist, author and director. He studied art at the Pedagogical University in Tallinn and visual media at the Advanced School for Fine Arts in Vienna. He made his first stop-motion film as his final thesis in Nukufilm studio and has been tightly bound up with the studio since then. His best-known film, The Way to Nirvana (2000), won the prestigious Grand Prix at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Laas has held several lectures and...
Vaata täisprofiiliMark Shapiro
Mark Shapiro’s diverse marketing and communications career has taken him across the world, working in brand development, advertising, public relations, film production and writing for a number of companies including Nike, Town & Country Magazine and Upper Deck. In 2007, he joined the LAIKA animation company, where he manages brand strategies, including the marketing efforts for LAIKA’s corporate identity as well as the company’s feature films. A native of Seattle, Washington, Mark Shapiro...
Vaata täisprofiiliMarkus Lauterbach
Starting with 3D animation in 1997, Markus Lauterbach started working on commercials and television features in 1999. In 2001 he went on to study animation at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, where he took part in an exchange program with Ryerson University, spending a year studying in Toronto. Lauterbach graduated from Filmakademie in 2006 and went to UK, freelancing for companies as The Mill, Glassworks and Studio Aka, where he then became a fulltime Lighting TD until 2008. He...
Vaata täisprofiiliMax Howard
Max Howard created and ran studios for Disney in London, Paris, Orlando and Los Angeles, working on some of Disney’s most memorable films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. As President of Warner Bros Feature Animation he oversaw such hit movies as The Iron Giant and Space Jam. At DreamWorks, he was co-executive producer for Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron. Howard is currently producing a series of animated feature films...
Vaata täisprofiiliNatalia Lukinykh
Natalia Lukinykh is a film critic, animation expert and documentary filmmaker. She graduated from Moscow State University as a journalist and critic. She has worked for many Russian newspapers, magazines and TV programs. Lukinykh is the author and director of several documentary films about animation and culture (The People and Puppets; Soyuzmultifilm – The Tales and Realities etc). Currently she is working as a professor at VGIK (Russian State Film University), programmer of the...
Vaata täisprofiiliNick Dorra
Nick Dorra is the head of animation department at Rovio Entertainment, the company behind the runaway mobile game hit Angry Birds. Prior to joining Rovio he worked as a consultant and freelancer in animation production, on various projects including the highly successful Finnish 3D feature Niko and the Way to the Stars. He has 14 years of experience in producing animation, events and interactive media and is an active member of Finnanimation, the Finnish animation producer’s association.
Vaata täisprofiiliNobuaki Doi
Nobuaki Doi is an editor of the website Animation Creators and Critics and one of the co-founders of CALF, an independent DVD label featuring works from Japanese independent animators. As a critic, he writes articles on recent short animations from all around the world for ASIFA Magazine. He is the Japanese translator of Chris Robinson’s The Ballad of A Thin Man: In Search of Ryan Larkin. Doi is a research associate at The Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum in Waseda University. As a scholar,...
Vaata täisprofiiliPaul Wells
Professor Paul Wells is Director of the Animation Academy, Loughborough University, UK, and has published a number of books on animation including Understanding Animation, Re-Imagining Animation and The Animated Bestiary. He is also a writer and director for film, TV, theatre and radio, conducting workshops worldwide based on his book Scriptwriting. Wells has published further books on the Horror Genre, British Cinema and Special Effects, and curated exhibitions, public events and programmes...
Vaata täisprofiiliPriit Pärn
Priit Pärn has been working in animation since 1976 and has made a number of animated films for which he has received more than 80 honours and prizes, including the ASIFA Life Achievement Award in 2002. Pärn has been a jury member on more than 30 international film festivals and had about the same number of retrospectives in different places of the world. In addition to filmmaking Pärn has been active as a caricaturist and illustrator since the end of 1960’s and has done more and more work as...
Vaata täisprofiiliRune Christensen
Rune Christensen has a background in graphic design. At Ja Film he spends his days directing, developing visual concepts and animating. Christensen is also responsible for writing the screenplays for the studio’s film ideas. His debut short film Down the Road was a turning point for the studio. It was through the production of this film when Ja Film developed their filmmaking philosophy: animation doesn’t have to be a genre, it can simply be a medium.
Vaata täisprofiiliStig Bergqvist
Stig Bergqvist is partner and co-founder of FilmTecknarna. He spent the first few years of his career focusing on short films and commercials. He went over to work in Los Angeles between 1996-2008 as a director. He made a couple of half-an-hour episodes for the animated series Duckman. He also worked on the series Stressed Eric as Creative Producer and Supervising Director for which he was awarded a British Animation Award for Best International Co-production. Bergqvist uses a variety of...
Vaata täisprofiiliVrej Kassouny
Vrej Kassouny is a 2D animation director, filmmaker, painter and caricaturist. He graduated from the M. Sarian Fine Art School in Aleppo, Syria in 1996 and received his Painter and Art Teacher Degree from P. Terlemezian Fine Art College in Yerevan in 2000. He moved to Armenia in 1999 and two years later started his own animation studio, KASSart production, specializing in animation, advertizing and film making in general. In 2008 he founded the ReAnimania International Animation Film...
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