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ARGENTINA 
OLIVA

Co-founder and director of TBDC (The Broadcast Design Company), a company specializing in TV badges, mainly developed in 2D and 3D animation. The company carried out, for more than eight years, works for the main national chains and some European clients. In addition to founding and being project director of two world awards, The Best Brand Awards for logos and BassAwards for animation After taking the Executive Production of Animated Feature Films and Series course in October 2017, with Paco Rodríguez and Belli Ramírez, she worked as executive producer for La Casa Animada. Argentina started in 2018 as production supervisor at MondoTV studios, a company of the international MondoTV group, and today she continues to work with them as 2D series head of production.

BARRY
O´DONOGHUE

He began his career at Warner Brothers’ Feature Animation in California, where he worked in production management and as an animator on “The Iron Giant”, “Osmosis Jones” and “Eight Crazy Nights”. He founded Barley Films in Ireland in 2002, producing a dozen short films with directors from Ireland, Canada, France and the USA. He was an instructor on the animation degree course at IADT in Ireland, teaching animation and business skills. He recently directed the studio’s first feature film, “Little Caribou”, working with talent from around the world, including Spain and Argentina, to be released in 2022.

KATARZYNA 
GROMADZKA

Master degree in Film Culture and Audiovisual Arts. Alumni of Film and TV Production at Lodz Film School. She has worked as a production manager for film festivals (CAMERIMAGE, SE-MA-FOR Film Festival). In addition, she worked as a production manager and line producer at Se-ma-for. Co-founder of Momakin and ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum and executive producer (‘Kids of Courage’, dir. Matthias Zirzow, nominated for the EMMY Kids Award 2019). Besides, she is ‘Polish Quality’ project representative, member of Polish Filmmakers Association (SFP) and member of Polish Animation Producers Association (SPPA).

LOÏC
PORTIER

Member of the French Academy’s Cesar Awards animation Committee. Creator and director of Cine Court Animé Roanne (France) since 2009. Programmer in various animation events: Weird Market – 3D Wire (since 2009), International Young Filmmakers Festival of Granada (2006 – 2016), Medellin Festival (2012 – 2014) and film expositions (Le laboratoire D’images, En sortant de l’école S3, Skhizein, L’envers du décor).

PACO
RODRÍGUEZ

Founder of PPM Multimedia (1990 – 2000), working on: international distribution, co-production´s financing and executive production of several animated series. Executive producer of seven feature films, receiving 4 Goyas (‘El Cid: The Legend’, ‘Pinocchio 3000’, ‘Nocturna’, ‘The Hairy Tooth Fairy’). He runs Media Training & Consulting, company dedicated to the training and consultancy of digital content. He’s consultant for ICEX and he´s expert for the EU´s Media Creative program.

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SYDNEY
PADUA

An animator and Eisner Award-nominated graphic novelist. She has been working in hand-drawn, CG, and VFX films and commercials for over 20 years, from ‘The Iron Giant’ to the recent ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘The Lion King’, and ‘The One and Only Ivan’. Her animated short film ‘Agricultural Report’ was nominated for an Annie award and has screened in over a hundred festivals.