Category: Animation

Pedro Jordão

Elton Fortes, Felix Lima, Pedro Ferreira, Tiago Nunes

Citlali Potamu

Léa Fabreguettes

Léa Fabreguettes, 24 years old, is a French Director of animated film. During 6 years, she studied Animation Art in France. She has graduated in 2015 from the EMCA (École des Métiers du Cinéma d’animation) in Angoulême and in 2012 with the DMA jury distinction from the school of Animation Art of Paris, Institut Sainte Geneviève. She wrote and directed The heady hat in 2012, it received The City Award at Festival de Senlis 2013 (France), The Audience Award at the 13th Festival du Court-Métrage en Lussacais 2013 (France).

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Sashko Danylenko

Sashko is an independent filmmaker from Ukraine who has his own individual style. Sashko joins folk and contemporary, nature and digital in his works. He creates magic worlds with colorful characters and extraordinary allegories.

He was born in Eastern Ukraine in 1989. Sashko spent childhood drawing a lot, reading books and riding his bicycle.

In 2006, he left for the industrial city of Kharkiv to study Thermal Physics but discovered animation in time.

Sashko did short animation experiments as a hobby until “Ocheretyany kit” music band found his style of animation interesting for a music video to the song “Zishla Zorya” in 2011.

This debut animation “Zishla Zorya” was selected for screening at numerous festivals around the world and allowed him to visit as an invited artist at KROK IAFF. Meeting with the animation community have brought to Sashko new opportunities and inspiration.

During 2012-2013 Sashko presented two animation films “Carpathian rap” and “Reggie” in collaboration with Dakha Brakha and M.O.R.J. music bands. Films were selected and honored by many festivals. In 2013, he moved to Kyiv, a capital of Ukraine where he has worked closely with the Institut Francais and began his international collaborations. His first international project was animation film “Swan” with Kwoon, French post-rock band. Sashko worked on the film in Cite Internationale des Arts, an artistic residence in Paris for 5 months in 2014. The film was supported by Institut Francais, I3Grants and Art brutal and was presented in July 2014 on Cite des Arts stage.

Sashko returned to Ukraine from France in September 2014 and started working on a new animation project “Goopalo Vasyl” with TNMK, one of the most acknowledged hip-hop bands in Ukraine. “Goopalo Vasyl” includes animation film, an interactive media character, souvenirs, a fairy tale book and a mobile game. “Goopalo Vasyl” was presented on Kyiv Comic-Con.

In 2015, Sashko decided to travel to the USA to broaden his horizons and seek new experiences and inspiration while working as a freelance illustrator for Ukrainian publishing companies and developing new animation projects.

Since the 2016 year Sashko working on documentary animated films for TED Conferences, TED-Ed, The School of Life and TOPIC as a director and an animator.

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Trisha Banerjee

Trisha Banerjee did her masters in Molecular Biology from the Presidency college, Kolkata. She was a Senior research biologist in TCG Lifesciences. After five years of that job she took a brake to find out what she wanted to do from what she was doing. She joined Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute [SRFTI] to learn Animation Cinema. This unique course opened a new world that was completely unknown to her. Her love for stories finds new ways to flourish. She learned new techniques to make films and started telling stories as projects of SRFTI. Her first short animated film was ‘knachamithe’ [Unaged]. When she was asked to go for a documentary in animation, she chose the 300years old art of making Baluchari saree, as she was married to a man of the village Baluchar, and she came to know it’s glorious yet unsung history from before. Mystically she gifted her mother a Baluchari saree from her first salary years ago; just to celebrate this Trisha asked her mother to do the voice-over for this film.