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Petrit Gora

Petrit Gora was born in 1990 in the capital city of Kosovo, Pristina. He studied Graphic Design in the Academy of Fine Arts at the

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Frederick Howard

Frederick Howard holds degrees from both Westerdals School of Arts, Communication and Technology, and The Norwegian Film School. He has previously worked as Head of

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Ansgar Massmann

Ansgar Maßmann started out his career as a freelancer in illustration, drawing and animation. Education included meeting some of the world’s leading animation instructors including Glenn

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Paloma Baeza

British director and actress Paloma Baeza is a graduate of the National Film and Television School, where her work predominantly developed the stop motion puppeteered

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Lucy Izzard

Lucy Izzard

Lucy is the Creator and Series Director of Aardman’s preschool series The Very Small Creatures, a spin-off series from the studio’s hugely popular Morph series, commissioned by Sky

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Anneli Heed

Anneli Heed – Voice Actor Known for her ability to work in a multitude of different voices and accents. Continuously heard in both Swedish and

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Torbjörn Alström

Torbjörn Alström Studied acting at Dell’arte international School in CA, USA. The specialty is masked theater and clown. He was part of several productions after

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Luis Cataldi

Luis Cataldi, Lead Evangelist for Quixel, Epic Games Luis Cataldi has been working in the computer graphics industry for over 22 years in various roles

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Midhat Ajanovic

Ajan (Midhat Ajanovic) is an author and film teacher born in Sarajevo (Bosnia) in 1959. Since 1994 he is living in Gothenburg (Sweden) where he

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Killmonday Games

Natalia Martinsson, Co-Founder & Game Designer Natalia started creating games in 2012 together with husband Isak Martinsson. Since then they have created a few free

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Nikolai Lockertsen

Nikolai Lockertsen is a concept artis, illustrator and animator based in Norway. He has worked in the film industry for over 20 years, including a

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Janne Vierth

Janne Vierth has been writing for film, television and radio since 1999. He writes mainly for children. Animation of all sorts, puppets, live action; it’s

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Janne Vierth

Janne Vierth has been writing for film, television and radio since 1999. He writes mainly for children. Animation of all sorts, puppets, live action; it’s

Christian Ryltenius

Christian Ryltenius started his career at the Swedish studio Penn Film AB, where he worked on the feature film The Journey to Melonia (1989). He

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Olivier Cotte

Film director, writer, graphic novel author, illustrator, and animation historian

Ilan Nguyên

Ilan Nguyên is Japanese-French scholar, translator, critic, curator and coordinator for cultural events. His main research areas are history and aesthetics of the Japanese animation

SPEAKERS 2016