Ágota Végső

Producer and Project manager at the Sci-Vi Department and Project main Coordinator of NiNoKo Universe Accelerator at The Animation Workshop/VIA UC in Viborg, Denmark.

Ágota is a Hungarian animated film director, illustrator and producer. She finished her studies at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest. She attended ASF – The Animation European Production Workshop in 2012, and had the opportunity to participate in the Open Workshop program at The Animation Workshop (TAW) in Denmark in 2014. Since then she is working for The Animation Workshop being responsible for the organization of a collaboration with TED-Ed and other animated projects related to science, education and talent development.”

Annette Schindler

In 2011, Annette Schindler was appointed as the artistic director of Fantoche, in 2013 she became the festival director. Under her direction the festival grew in various realms: The programm was expanded with the Industry Day designed specially for professionals and with multimedia exhibitions. The number of submitted films increased by more than 100%; since 2016 Fantoche communicates in there languages; and the number of visitors grew by some 27%.

Annette Schindler has established her reputation as director, initiator and co-founder of several institutions and festivals, such as the House of Electronic Arts Basel (2010), the Shift Festival of Electronic Arts (2007–2010), the Digital Art Collection/Store (2005-2011) [plugi.in] and Art and New Media Basel (2000–2010). Previously, she directed the Swiss Institute in New York (1997–2000) and the Kunsthaus Glarus (1995–1997). In 2010, the Federal Office of Culture honoured Annette Schindler with the Swiss Art Award Prix Meret Oppenheim. On a regular basis, she serves as Jury member in festivals, amongst them the Annecy festival in France (2014), the 3rd Shenzen Independent Animation Biennial in China (2016), the Festival Anima, The Brussels Animation Film Festival in Belgium (2017) and the New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival in Japan (2018).

Jeremiah Dickey

Jeremiah Dickey has been creating fine animation since 1997, working both independently and in cahoots with various studios and production companies in New York City and beyond. Past work includes frequent collaboration with filmmaker Emily Hubley on animation for numerous documentaries and independent films, including Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) and The Toe Tactic (2007). Since 2012, Jeremiah has been an Animation Director for TED-Ed, an online educational initiative of the TED Conferences. In that time he has directed, designed and animated over 40 short films on subjects from ancient mythology to cutting-edge science and everything in between.

Koji Yamamura

Koji Yamamura born in 1964. During the 1990s, He refined his style, spending much of his time making films for children. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Short, "Mt. Head"(2002)marked a turning point, he to a place among the world’ s top animation filmmakers by "The Old Crocodile" (2005), "Franz Kafka’ s A Country Doctor" (2007) and "Muybridge’s Strings"(2011). Those films got awarded more than 90 prizes include the grand prizes of 4th big animation festival, Annecy, Zagreb, Ottawa and Hiroshima. He worked for international jury a lot and held on many retrospective screenings around the world. He is membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professor of Tokyo University of the Arts.

Lise Fearnley

Lise Fearnley is a producer in the Norwegian animation production company Mikrofilm AS.

She began her animation career as Director of Photography for director Pjotr Sapegin in the 1990's. In 1996 she co-founded Mikrofilm with Kajsa Næss, and has been the CEO since the beginning.
Lise works as a producer of independent films as well as commissioned films. She is one of Norway's most experienced animation producers, and among her credits is the Academy Award winning short film The Danish Poet, directed by Torill Kove.

Alongside her producer activities, Lise is serving on the board of Fredrikstad Animation Festival and the European Animation Awards (EMILE). Lise is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the Oscar Academy).