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WINNERS! FAF
The leading festival for animated films in the Nordic, Fredrikstad Animation Festival was held from 21 to 24 October and six short films was awarded.

SMEA Conference
Swedish Media Production Academies, yearly board meeting and call for papers session. The conference is open for members of SMEA only. Ämnesföreningen SMEA (Svenska Medieproduktionsakademier)

Sif Savery
About Director and Animator Sif graduated from The Animation Workshop (Denmark) in 2019, with additional studies at La Poudrière (France) and Chungkang College of Cultural

Samuel Fast
About I finished my BAFA at Konstfack in 2010 and then moved on to start Brikk Animation in 2011; since then, I have been involved

Ray Whitcher
About Ray Whitcher (22.03.1986) studied Multimedia Design as an undergraduate, then specialised in Animation at a Master’s level. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in

Peter Lord
About PETER LORD is Co-Founder and Creative Director of Aardman. He co-founded Aardman with his long-time collaborator, David Sproxton, in 1972. As a director, Lord

Oscar Rodriguez
About Puppet maker/designer , working for the last 14 years creating characters, from metal armatures to silicone skin… experimenting with techniques, materials and finding solutions

Nana Li
About Art director / Visual development artist Nana is a Swedish/Chinese art director and visual development artist. Growing up in northmost Sweden, an early passion

Marta Pajek
About Marta Pajek is an award-winning Polish animation filmmaker. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, she studied at the Animated Film

EUNIC! Together with REX
REX is a yearly film festival focused on bringing the very best of European animation to Stockholm and Sweden. This selection of European animation is

Drifa Bensghir
About Performance animator /Motion Editor at Wētā FX As a Performance Animator at WētāFX, I apply my self-taught 3D expertise and passion for animation to

Dina Amin
About Stop Motion Animator Dina Amin is a stop motion artist and a maker from Cairo, Egypt. Although trained as an Industrial Designer, dina loves

Christian Ryltenius
About Animation Director and Producer Christian Ryltenius started his career in animation at the Swedish studio Penn Film AB, where he worked on the feature

Anna Eliseeva
About Film/Animation Producer, FILM.UA Group Film/Animation Film Producer, FILM.UA Group, Ukraine Among Anna’s recent projects is the anthology series “Those Who Stayed” (2023), which was

Alfred Lindahl
About VFX artist, teacher and podcaster Alfred Lindahl is a Stockholm based VFX artist with almost 20 years of professional experience within 3D, VFX and

Alexander Cederlund
3D Generalist and VFX Supervisor, Ghost VFX Alexander Cederlund is currently based in Copenhagen and has been working for Ghost VFX for the last 7
SPEAKERS 2023

Suzy Parr
Suzy has worked in stop motion animation for almost 27 years. She graduated from UWE Bristol, having specialised in animation in 1996 and then won

Simon Alexanderson
Simon Alexanderson is a researcher at KTH and Co-founder and CTO of Motorica AI. His interests are in machine learning and animation where his aim

Signe Baumane
Signe Baumane is a Latvian born, Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator. She has made 17 award-winning animated shorts but is best known for

SAAVA – Swedish Animation and Visual Arts
SAAVA is short for Swedish Animation and Visual Arts. It is an association that aims to strengthen swedish animation by bringing creative professionals, students and teachers

Ru Kuwahata
Ru Kuwahata is an Oscar-nominated animation filmmaker born in Tokyo, Japan, living in Providence, USA. Since 2007 she has been collaborating with Max Porter as

Roland Reyer
Roland Reyer started as an Application Engineer at Wavefront Technologies GmbH in Germany in 1992. He became an industry expert for the entire product portfolio

Regina Pessoa
Born in 1969 in Coimbra, Portugal, Regina Pessoa spent her childhood listening to family stories and watching her uncle draw pictures on the walls of

Ray Whitcher
Ray Whitcher (22.03.1986) studied Multimedia Design as an undergraduate, then specialised in Animation at a Master’s level. He is currently completing his Ph.D. in Located

Peter Larsson
I started off as an animator who made short films that got screened at film festivals. Early on, I was attracted to the experimental potentials

Martin Bergquist
Bio in short. I am a senior concept artist, art Director and storyboard artist with 16+ year experience both in video games and film. Check

Mait Laas
Mait Laas (born in 1970) Estonian animation artist, author and director. Internationally has held lectures and led programmes about animation, organized animation work-shops. His paintures

Kaoru Furuko
Kaoru Furuko, Direction / Animation / Illustration Kaoru Furuko is a director, animator and video artist who mostly uses stop-motion technique. She had her master’s

Kajsa Naess
After 25 years as an innovative short animation director, Kajsa Næss is ready for her feature film debut with TITINA. Næss is known for her playful, humorous

Hanna Högstedt
Film director and Producer, Onoma Productions Hanna Högstedt is a film director and script writer, working with both documentary and fiction. After Mourners, her latest film,

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

Arvid Steen
Arvid Steen has nearly 25 years of animation experience. He studied at the Swedish University College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, where he focused on

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

Annika Bergström
Annika Bergström (1979) is a swedish animator and visual artist. Her background is in classical animation, as a freelance animator and director, but since 2017

Anders Narverud Moen
Anders Naverud Moen is Festival Director for the Fredrikstad Animation Festival in Fredrikstad, Norway. Fredrikstad Animation Festival is the leading festival for animated film in
SPEAKERS 2022

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

Stina Wirsén
For as long as I remember, I have been drawing and making up stories. My sister and I loved when our mother read to us,

Rickard Germundsson, Haymaker FX
Rickard Germundsson is a producer at Haymaker in Gothenburg. He is a local resident from Trollhättan, which is where he first started working in the

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

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

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

Nikki Lindroth von Bahr
Director Niki Lindroth Von Bahr is a master craftswoman who makes puppets and sets by hand and brings stories to life through the technique of

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

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

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

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

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

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


Emma de Swaef and Marc Roels
Directing duo Emma de Swaef and Marc James Roels make up one of the most exciting contemporary directorial voices of today’s animation scene. Together they

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

Bee Grandinetti, Director, designer and animator!
Bee Grandinetti Director, designer and animator Hailing from the warm lands of Brazil, Bee Grandinetti has honed her skills across the globe. From Belo

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

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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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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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



Creative Europe – Anders Wilhelmsson
Financing your movie project. Creative Europe / Swedish Film Institute




Animation in games at King – A candy crush saga
Johan Sonestedt from King presents the inhouse animation production at

Autodesk Stingray – Realtime render engines in movieproduction
Autodesks realtime rendering engine Stingray is presented by Morgan Evans.




