Karina Pogorelova

Russia

She was born in 1993. She lived and studied in Sergiev Posad, Russia. There she graduated from an art school. In 2013, she graduated from the College of Film, Television and Multimedia at Gerasimov VGIK. As an animator, she took part in the creation of the following films:
2013 «Literal Stories», dir. L. Skvortsova,
2014 «Scientist Bear», dir. A. Kuznetsov,
2015 «The Brave», dir. A. Kuznetsov,
2016 «Johnny Boni Bo», dir. L. Skvortsova,
2017 «Trunky», dir. E. Filippova,
2018 «Mirror», dir. Mr. Golubev.
In 2018, won the prize of Icarus National Animation Award as the Best Animator for work in the projects «Johnny Boni Bo» and «Trunky».

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Milana Deripaskina

Russia

Was born in Kazakhstan in 1990. In 1997, moved with her family, to Nefteyugansk (Russia), where she attended a school with enhanced coverage of maths and physics. Also graduated from a music school and a school of arts. She was interested in doing equations and physics experiments but was also dedicated to music, story writing and drawing. Graduated from Tyumen State University in 2012 with a degree in physics, with a profession of a physics teacher and a technical translator. Her self-paced study of graphic design allowed her to get a job as a graphic designer at an advertisement-production company. In the Spring of 2017, she moved to Moscow to study and practice animation. At the moment she’s a student at the School-Studio “SHAR”.

Selected films:
2017 «Parygin Show», (animation),
2017 Jam for Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s birthday, (animation);
2018 «Animation Super Hero», (animation),
2018 «How Old Is the Rabbit?», (animation, editing),
2018 Jam for SHAR’s jubilee, (animation),
2018 «Summer in the M-city», (animation, editing), in the framework of an intensive course together with the Animation Manufactory

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Ksenia Danilevskaya

Russia

Born in Moscow in 1997. Since 2010 and for about three years, she attended the Children's Animation Studio "Dragonfly". In 2013, she entered the Theater Art and Technical College #60 at the specialty of artist-animator. Her first independent experience in creating animation was a stop-motion video on a given topic, i.e. "A Clockwork Orange". In 2014, made a stop-motion (seashells) clip “Sea Music”. In 2017, graduated from the College with a diploma film called "Zai-Samurai", and entered the Sergiev-Posadskiy branch of VGIK on the specialty “director of animation and computer graphics, teacher”. In 2018, she worked as an animator on the project of a classmate Anelle Askar named "Multiperson", she made cutout animation. At the moment she is in her second year working on her term work based on the fairy tale called "Beasts in a Pit".

Selected films:
2013 «A Clockwork Orange»,
2014 «Sea Music»,
2018 «Multiperson», dir. А. Аskar.

Ivan Bondarenko

Russia

Was born in Moscow in 1988. Travelled a lot with his family when he was a child as his father is a diplomat. He lived in Myanmar, Ukraine and Moldova. In 2005-2008, he studied at the Institute of International Relations of Moldova. When he came back to Moscow he entered the Academy of Labor and Social Relations and specialized in social relations between the years of 2008 and 2013. He worked in different fields and tried different jobs but have always dreamt of being an animator. In 2015, he entered Scream School and spent three there but didn’t finish it. Since 2017, he’s been studying at the School Studio SHAR (the department of animation director/producer). Took part in different projects of the Scream School and the School Studio SHAR among other students and participated in various student jams as both animator and director. Participated in creation of several cartoon episodes of the “Prostokvashino” project as an animator. At the moment works at an Anna Kadykova’s film “Near the Mountain, On the Mountain, From the Mountain”.

Anuar Ibrayev

Russia

Born in 1999. From 2011 to 2015, he studied at the Kasteev School of Fine Arts and Technical Design. In 2017, he entered the Litovchin Institute of Film and Television named (GITR), where he’s majoring as an artist of animation and computer graphics. In 2018, he took courses of the Pixel Online Animation School on basic animation in After Effects.

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Selected works:
2016 “My First Animation", 5 sec.,
2017 «Adventure of Arseny», 10 sec.,
2018 «Live Moscow», 11 sec.,
2018 «Something About Me», 22 sec.,
2018 «Where Is Happiness?», 5 sec.,
2018 «To Sleep Like a Baby in a Pot», 11 sec.,
2018 «Where Is My Purse?», 7 sec.,
2018 «Just a House», 8 sec.,
2018 «Concept of a Music Player», 19 sec.

Andrey Falk

Russia

Born in 1999 in Moscow. In 2017, he graduated from a school with in-depth study of certain subjects №1234. In 2013-17, he studied at the Children's Art School named after V. Serov. In 2015-16, attended courses at Gerasimov VGIK for artists of animation and computer graphics specialists, and in 2016-17, he also attended courses intended for directors of animation and computer graphics specialists, ibid. In 2017, enrolled in the Sergievo-Posadskiy branch of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography majoring in directing of animation and computer graphics.

Selected films:
2018 – «Three Steps Toward», 1 min. 29 sec.

Shalev Ben Elya

Israel

A 4th year student of animation at Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem, Israel. He specializes in stop motion and classical animation that uses a wide range of materials and techniques. His most recent short, "Reviver", premiered at the "Asif" festival in Tel Aviv. In 2017, his short "And Thou Renewest the Face of the Earth", which imitates the movement of a zoetrope, won first prize in the "929: Tanakh B'yachad" Competition for video art and animation shorts inspired by the book of Psalms. Between those projects, he worked at École de La Cambre in Brussels on the "Eclipse", an animation created from a clay relief.

Filmography:
2018 «Reviver», сo-director/аnimator (Password: Brahms),
2018 «Eclipse», director/animator,
2017 «And Thou Renewest the Face of the Earth», сo-director/аnimator,
2017 «In a Relationship», codirector/animator,
2017 «Life», codirector/animator,
2016 «Shame on You», codirector/animator,
2016 «Greeting for Succoth», director/animator,
2016 «Calmest Case Scenario», director/animator,
2016 «Where the Wild Things Are», director/animator

Renen Adar

Israel

Age 28, a student of Animation and Visual Arts in the Bezalel Academy, Israel. Finds especially great pleasure in directing stories and animating characters, mainly in the fields of stop motion and classic animation, but also in comics, illustration and writing. A great lover of nature, outdoor life, anthropology and human cultures, with a tendency to ask why things are the way they are. Some of his earlier works can be found here.

Short filmography:
2016 «Coffee Time»,
2017 «Mortal Cookie»,
2018 «Hailstorm»,
2018 «Character Animations», series,
2018 «Stop Motion Sequences», short experiments exploring time and space,
2018 «Destination»,
2018 «Reviver»,  (Password: Brahms).

Marion Nyffenegger

Switzerland

Was born in Wyssachen (Switzerland) in 1995. In 2015-16, she took an introductory design course at The Basel School of Design. Since 2016 she a student at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She passed an exchange semester at the College of Art in Edinburgh in 2018. She has taken part in numerous intensives, master classes, animation projects and jams, has been curator of exhibitions, Art Director of several films and festivals.

Selected films:
2013 «Alles bleibt anders», director,
2014 «Und Morgen fahre ich dann zurück nach Lissabon...», director,
2016 «Hänsel und Gretel-Sweet Temptation»,
2018 «Lumina», 360° Film,
2018 «We Are Memories», (password: Memory2018),
2018 «Spirit of the Sea»,
2018 «You Keep Me Moving»,
2018 «Memories of Raspberries»,
2018 «Lord Leevid`s Speech», commercial,
2018-2019 «What Brought You Here», collaboration with Anne Renaud from Strasbourg.

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Anna Heribanova

Czech Republic

Was born in Prague 1990. She is student of the Department of Animated Art at the Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Before that she studied graphic design at the Graphic School in Prague. Her animated short film was presented at the Tricky Women festival in Wien in 2015. She also worked on some other films with co-workers from the school and a few advertisements and propagation videos. Now she works on her bachelor short about Christmas.

Selected films:
2014 «Dům»,
2014 «Fabulous World – Adolescence».

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