Training session about project presentation.
Training session about public speech.
Training session about film production.
Training session about script.
Training session about the puppet building.
Audiovisual Technology Center
A historian by profession, passionate about film. Since 2013, she has been working at the Audiovisual Technology Center as a film production coordinator. She co-creates the CeTA animation studio, dealing with production-related matters, and in her spare time she devotes herself to artistic work on props and stage designs. She collaborated on such productions as ‘Loving Vincent’ or the series ‘Kids of Courage’.
International Animation Festival Fest Anča
Director and a programmer of the only animation festival in Slovakia, the International Animation Festival Fest Anča (since 2018) and screenwriter. Since 2018 director of the International Animation Festival Fest Anča. In 2019 she founded the festival series ‘Pilot’ with the ambition to create a platform for creators, producers, and television, and launched a debate on the state of television production in Slovakia. She is also involved in the animated films’ production as a screenwriter and has collaborated with Martin Smatana on his ‘Rosso Papavero’ (2015) and ‘The Kite’ (2019).
Łódź Film Commission
Since 2014, he has been a member of the Łódź Film Commission team in which he is responsible for international cooperation and the development of animation management tools in Łódź. In addition, he is involved in the ‘Łódzkie Pro Filmowcy’ and participates in the works of the Lodz Film Fund. For over 10 years he has been involved in the cultural life of Łódź; he participated in the organization of international cultural projects such as Fotofestiwal, Łódź Design Festival and LDZ Alternatywa.
Primanima World Festival of First Animations
An aanimation historian, a festival programmer and a curator. She has been on the programming board of the Kecskemét Animation Film Festival (KAFF) since 2009. Moreover she is the co-founder and curator of Primanima World Festival of First Animations, which debuted in 2012 in Hungary. She has been a jury member and curated both retrospective and contemporary Hungarian animation programs for major international animation film festivals including Monstra (Lisbon, Portugal), Animator (Poznan, Poland), Anifilm (Trebon, Czech Republic), Dok Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany), Animateka (Ljubljana, Slovenia), and Fest Anča (Zilina, Slovakia).
Bororo Studio
His debut movie ‘Rosso Papavero’ (2015) had premiere at Berlinale 2015, was screened at more than 200 film festivals and received 15 international awards. Martin’s last movie ‘The Kite’ won ANIMARKT Pitching in 2017 and since its premiere at Berlinale 2019, it won over 32 international awards. The film was selected to the semifinals of a Student Oscar Academy Awards, moreover was included in the Film Collection of Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA). Martin has launched his own film production company Studio Bororo in Slovakia. Currently, he is working on a new short animated film for children ‘Hello Summer’, which was selected to the Mifa pitches during in Annecy 2020.
Animation People
An independent producer from Animation People company based in Prague. The studio has been working for 21 years and deals with the artistic creation, commercial jobs, partial animations, and is also a traditional co-production partner, especially for stop motion animation projects. Michal has made over 200 TV series episodes, 10 short films, 2 feature films, and more than 80 animated commercials and music videos. He is the founding member of the Czech Animation Film Association (ASAF), a member of the board of directors of the Association of Czech Producers (APA) and chairman of the Visegrad Animation Forum.
MOMAKIN
A co-producer and a programmer of the ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum. Her main tasks at MOMAKIN include searching for movies and television programs for distribution. Also, she coordinates projects promoting Polish animation across the world and organizes cultural events. She was professionally associated with The Se-Ma-For Film Festival, TOYA TV, Multimedia Polska and Klub Wytwórnia. As well as serving as a juror at animation festivals around the world, she is a film selector for the Ibero-American Quirino Awards.
MOMAKIN
She co-organizes ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum, where she programs the Masters and Business sections. Her main areas of activity at MOMAKIN are animation distribution in movie theaters as well as education and professionalization of the animation industry. She was associated with the Se-ma-for Animation Museum, which she managed for 5 years, and was involved in the creation and co-organization of exhibitions, workshops and special events. She co-created the educational part of the Se-ma-for European/Asian Express, Junior Se-ma-for Film Festival and the film section of the International Animation Art Festival.
dir.: Beatriz Lima
prod.: Ana Luisa Lima
country: Brazil
The Land wasn’t even called Brazil yet. An old native woman weaves a hammock in the forest. As people in her community are captured as slaves, the hammock begins a journey that it could never imagine. It passes from hand to hand, being used by a lot of people of different ethnicities.
dir.: Marjorie Caup & Olivier Heraud
prod.: 12//24 FILMS
country: France
As flight 7836 reaches cruising speed above the Atlantic Ocean, the pilot, co-pilot and flight attendant are startled by unexpected knock at the door! Chaos and confusion ensue as the crew enter a long and meandering debate regarding the stranger’s fate: should they open the door, or not?
dir.: Pablo Muñoz and Vicente Mallols
prod.: Leticia Montalvá - Pangur Animation
country: Spain
Two space shipwreck survivors from different species, lost in a barren planet, find themselves in a limiting situation because of their incapability to communicate with each other.
dir.: Daria Kashcheeva
prod.: FAMU and co-producer MAUR film - Martin Vandas, Zuzana Krivkova
country: Czech Republic
The film explores the inner world of a woman,who since childhood has been glorifying her father and revolting against her mother.She is immersed in her own fantasy world which is more attractive to her than real realtionships.
dir.: Luciana Martinez & Iván Stur
prod.: María Rosario Carlino
country: Argentina
After a fire, a strange animal walks blindly through a burned forest. Behind her dry mud eyes, she keeps a drop of water, and looks with her hands and her nose for the trace of something alive, whom she can feed.
dir.: Juan Soto
prod.: Juan Soto
country: Spain
A mentally unstable man is locked deep in his own nightmare.
dir.: Tiago Minamisawa
prod.: Wag Films and T Minamisawa
country: Brazil / France
“KABUKI” narrates the life learnings and transformations of the trans woman character named Kabuki. Inspired by the so many real stories about transgender people annihilated each and every day by intolerance. The film follows Kabuki’s quest for self-acceptance in the face of male chauvinistic world.
dir.: Olga Ti & Julia Titowa
prod.: Valentas Aškinis
country: Lituania
Brave little lab Mouse lives in the Professor’s cabinet and has an ability to survive the experiments. Nutty Professor is ecstatic to have him as a test pet. Poor Mouse just needs to find some tricks in this “battle”. The action is set like Mouse’s vlog.
dir.: Dragan Jovicevic
prod.: Predrag Azdejkovic
country: Serbia
Purisha is the only boy in a family of witches where the power of magic belongs only to women. Having no powers, Purisha does not fit in his family nor into the world around him which is cruel to him. But, today is the day when everything in Purisha’s life is going to be changed…
dir.: Gabriel Nunes do Carmo
prod.: Matias Boeing Eastman & A. K. McCallum
country: Brazil / Great Britain
A story told in three stages. Toninho & the death of innocence: a boy's first conscious experience of racism. Tony & troubled psyche: a teen's anguish of society's values and internalised racism. Antonio & Heritage: a man struggling with the ghost of his past and the responsibility of the future.
dir.: Nicolás Conte
prod.: María Rosario Carlino
country: Argentina
Locked up in a room that has an awning window, a Bird teaches a Little Bird how to fly, even if he has no wings. The appearance of a mysterious suitcase will ruin his plans, and reveal to Little Bird an unexpected possibility to escape.
dir.: Kinga Górak
prod.: Kinga Górak
country: Poland / South Korea
In Argentina, a young man starts another day like today. But when he reaches for his favorite sweater, he suddenly realizes that today will not be ordinary at all.
dir.: Fadi Syriani
prod.: Roland Fischer
country: Germany
Vladimir, an old Beirut resident, checks the Obituary page in the local newspaper and attends neighboring funerals daily. Following an unusual encounter on his “mourning” routine, Vladimir finds himself searching for his own notice.
dir.: Lea Vidakovic
prod.: Drasko Ivezic
country: Croatia
A quiet afternoon in an aristocratic home, just before 1st WW. Andras and his daughter are surprised by a visit of his brother and his numerous family members. A poetic, dark, and slightly humorous social observation, in which family ties are dissected and broken down to pieces.
dir.: Nayelli Ojeda
prod.: Isabel Figueroa
country: México
Yasén is a potters' village where everyone is made of red clay. It faces difficult times after the giants, who used to protect them, fled away. Zianya is a young, introverted potter who must overcome her own fears in order to save her sister from the same illness that killed their parents.
