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AGNIESZKA
KOWALESKA
Film industry expert with extensive experience in promotion, distribution, and production. Head of the ANIMARKT Stop Motion Forum (2016–2023), the world’s only industry event dedicated to stop-motion animation. Co-founder of MOMAKIN. Previously, she held key roles as a programmer, production manager, and buyer for The Se-Ma-For Film Festival, TOYA TV, Multimedia Polska, and Klub Wytwórnia, overseeing film and TV content acquisitions at MOMAKIN. Currently, she is responsible for SVOD Programming for Canal+ apps across several European territories.
ALFONSO
RUIZ RALLO
Art director specialising in visual effects and motion graphics design. PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. Professor of design and Motion Graphics at the University of La Laguna, where he is also Vice-rector of Teaching and Research Staff. He has been academic and teaching coordinator of the Master’s Degree in design for the tourism sector at the universities of La Laguna, Barcelona, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Basque Country. Partner and co-founder of the production companies La Mirada and La Casa Animada. Art director on short films such as ‘La Raya’ and feature films such as ‘Seis Puntos Sobre Emma’. In 2019 he co-directed the short film ‘La historia de Lila’.
BARRY
O´DONOGHUE
Following a Law Degree and Diploma in Business Studies at University College Dublin, Barry studied animation then joined the Feature Animation division at Warner Brothers in Los Angeles in 1998. There he jumped between roles in production management (The Iron Giant, Eight Crazy Nights) and as an animator (Osmosis Jones, The Karate Guard). Returning to Ireland in 2002 he founded Barley Films with his sister Niamh producing ten award-winning shorts in a variety of techniques. Between 2005 & 2013 he was a tutor on the animation degree course at the National Film School (IADT) in Ireland. He is currently directing the hand-drawn animated feature Little Caribou.
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.