Marta Pajek is a Polish animation filmmaker. She graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where she specialized in animated film in the class of Jerzy Kucia. As part of an exchange programme she studied in Turku Arts Academy in the class of Priit Pärn. Author of the animated short Sleepincord, and the recently completed, award winning, animated film triptych 'Impossible Figures and other stories' produced by Animoon Studio and NFB.

Abigail is based in the UK and is co-director of Animate Projects. She produces inventive animations, including BAFTA nominated I’m OK by Elizabeth Hobbs, co-produced with the NFB, and British Animation Award nominated Bloomers by Samantha Moore. She is also the Animated Shorts Programmer at Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Pedro Serrazina is an award-winning director and senior lecturer in animation. His first short, “Tale about the cat and the moon”, premiered internationally at the Cannes Film Festival ‘96 and is still regularly screened in international retrospectives and festivals. Since then, his work has been exhibited and published internationally, ranging from film, site-specific installations, to documentary, music videos and academic projects. Serrazina is interested in the interconnections between architecture, documentary and animation, and his practice-based PhD was dedicated to the use of animated space as a tool to reflect on social space.  A member of the Society for Animation Studies and Ecstatic Truth (a symposium dedicated to animation and documentary practices), Serrazina is currently preparing his next film, "What Remains of US".

Born in Huesca, Spain in 1991, but raised in Madrid. He finished there Fine Arts and then moved to Estonia to study and do animation. He has had a happy life so far. I am about 1'64 m tall, more or less like Napoleon. Brown eyed. Nothing exotic. No pets. Speaks some Polish. He directed “In My Chest Of Fire There Is Still Place To Temple Your Dagger”, “The piece of tail in the mouth of the snake that bites its own tail”, “Between the wall of perception” that took part in numerous international film festivals.

Oksana Kurmaz is an award-winning illustrator and animation director. She works mainly in the technique of stop-motion animation and creates music videos, advertisements and other commercial projects. Among her clients are OWSLA, Elohim ft. Skrillex, Okean Elzy, Alina Pash, TED, UNFPA.

Dante Zaballa is a self-taught animator and director from Argentina, who likes generating a colorful and psychedelic universe by experimenting with diverse techniques. His work is particularly dynamic, combining seemingly messy hand-drawn lines, raw shapes and flickering textures.

Founder and Producer of ART SHOT Production Company, Board Member of The Lithuanian Animation Association. Creative producer Agnė Adomėnė focuses on development and production of artistic animated films. In 2012 she founded production company ART SHOT, since then has been producing films of different animation techniques, most of the films are coproductions and received international recognition (“The Juggler” and “Way Better” by Skirmanta Jakaitė, “Winter in The Rainforest” by Anu-Laura Tuttelberg, “Elena” by Birutė Sodeikaitė, “Garrano” by David Doutel and Vasco Sá). Agnė is also one of the founders and a board member of The Lithuanian Animation Association, a board member of The Independent Producers Association of Lithuania, a member of The Lithuanian Film Academy and WIFT LT. A jury member at Annecy IAFF 2018, France, BIAF 2019, South Korea, Anima 2021, Belgium, Animafest Zagreb 2021, Croatia.

Piotr Kardas (1984) known as Animation Across Borders; initiator and director of the O!PLA Animation Film Festival in several dozen cities in Poland and abroad (2013-) and Rising of Lusitania - AnimaDoc Film Festival in port cities (2019-; Liverpool, UK; Gdansk, PL.), co-creator and program director of CRAFT International Animation Festival in Yogyakarta (2017-; Java, Indonesia) and International Futurological Film Festival (2021-, Lodz, Poland).; coordinator of Polish chapter of Polish-Slovenian StopTrik International Film Festival (2016-; Lodz, Poland); co-creator of several others film festivals. The organizer of the International Animation Day in Poland (2012-). Curator and juror in Poland and abroad. He studied Film Theory and New Media (University of Lodz). From 2010 to 2012 he worked for Se-ma-for Film Production (Lodz, Poland), Se-ma-for Film Foundation (Lodz, Poland), and ARS INDEPENDENT International Film Festival (Katowice, Poland).

Oleh Malamuzh is a director, producer, art director, animator, illustrator, designer with more than 25 years of experience. For 10 years, he worked at the Borysfen-lutes studio as an animator on many series and feature projects and as a producer of animated commercials. In 2005, he created his own production studio "Avtoritet" that created commercial projects. In 2018, he directed the a 3D feature film "The Stolen Princess" (Animagrad), and in 2023, the next project of the studio "Mavka. Forest Song" was released, where Oleh acted as a co-director.