Trollywood Animation Festival
Speakers 2023
We are really proud of all the speakers that will join us this year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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