The consultations will be attended by artists selected by the organizers and representatives of animation festivals: Fest Anca International Animation Festival, Anifilm - International Festival of Animated Films i Primanima World Festival of First Animation

Experts:

Piotr Knabe - a freelance sculptor with experience in fabrication, mould making and casting, creative engineering, character design, illustration, 3D modelling and 3D printing. Involved in making puppets, replicas and sets for such films as: "Peter and a Wolf",” "Danny Boy", "A Flying Machine", "La nostalgia del Sr. Alambre", "Isle of Dogs" and "Inzomnia" (in production) as well as TV series including: "Flapper and Friends", "Koyaa" and "Kids of Courage".

Tim Allen - stop motion animator with over twenty years of experience. He has worked on the sets of such feature film as "Isle of dogs", “Corpse Bride”, “Fantastic Mr. Fox” or "My Life as a Courgette" and moreover the short “Peter and the Wolf” (which won the Academy Award in 2008). Nowadays, he works a Senior Animator on “Pinocchio”, dir. by Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson for Netflix. Furthermore, he is also an educator, travelling across the globe with masterclasses, animation mentoring programs and animation workshops for anyone looking to develop their skills.

Kat Woodtli - camera assistant and screenwriter. She has worked on Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox and Isle of Dogs, as well as on Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie before venturing into screenwriting and production assisting. She specialises in bringing to life amazing, untold stories about remarkable historical figures with a focus on women and the LGBTQ+ community. 

Antoine Waked - works as a Development Executive at Abbout Productions and Shortcut Films since 2010. He also teaches writing and directed at ALBA University since 2005. He co-directed the feature documentary A Certain Nasser (2017), a portrait of pioneer Lebanese filmmaker Georges Nasser that premiered in Festival Lumière in Lyon and won the Special Jury Award at the Cairo International Film Festival. 

Susan Jerger - Susanna started experimenting with stop motion animation more than 20 years ago when she was studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. She has worked as puppet fabricator, model maker and painter on short and feature length stop motion and live action films across Europe, the United States and China. Most recently she created miniature sets for Wes Anderson's "French Dispatch" and worked as a scenic painter on Guillermo Del Toro's "Pinocchio“. Besides being in love with world of stop motion and miniatures she is a passionate painter.