Jury 2022
Lou Bones is Creative Talent Director at Psyop, with past life at Jelly London and the Association of Illustrators. She’s a walking, talking, twerking, human rolodex in all things animation + VFX and a tireless hype girl for the artists. It’s a brave new world and this baddie is on a mission to change the way businesses think about talent. She’s been put on this planet to bring people in and up, to build sustainable success for all and much needed production agility. With a passion for nurturing talent and business development, she’s ready to empower everyone from top to bottom with the know-how needed to make one giant leap for animation-kind.
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Cristóbal León is a filmmaker and visual artist. He has made several short films, using stop-motion animation in many of them. Much of this work is done together with Joaquín Cociña, forming the duo León & Cociña. At the Berlinale 2018, they premiered their first animated feature, called “La Casa Lobo” (The Wolf House). In 2021, they premiered their short film “Los Huesos”, winning the Orizontti award for Best Short Film at Venice Film Festival. His work has been exhibited among other places at the Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Since 2011 he has conducted classes and workshops in different institutions.
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TOMEK POPAKUL Animation director, musician , graphic designer, music video creator, Graduated Lodz Film School on direction animation and special effects. Paralelly studied there scriptwiritng for 1 year. His graduation movie “Ziegenort” was shown on many international festivals and gained many awards incl. main award fro animated movie on New Horizons festival in Wrocław, award for best animation on Cracow Film Festival, Grand Prix in Oberhausen, and award for best animation on Brooklyn film festival. He was on of 3 chosen participants for Animationa Artist in Residence Tokyo organized by Japan Image Council (JAPIC) where he created movie “Black.” His movies were two times selected for festivals in Rotterdam and Sundance Film Festival. Movie “Acid Rain” so far gained 35 awards, was shown in around 90 festivals, got prestigious nomination for Annie Awards, was on long Oscar list. Popakul has on his account also video work “My Little Angel” shown in philharmony in Szczecin, video “Bushes in which our ancestors lived” made during art project in Belarus, and short animation “Dżennet” commissioned by Museum of Emigration in Gdynia. Created short hybrid animation “Moon” for HBO pandemic anthology “At Home” As musician performs under nickname ASTMA.Founder of lablel Wysokie Pokrzywy. Host of EXOZENTRYKIME mix series in internet Radio Kapitał. Released albums and tracks in labels : Audile Snow, Pointless Geometry, Intruder Alert and Syntetyk, also creator of music videos and cover arts for them.
