This document profiles 14 animators from across Europe, providing brief biographies for each artist. It summarizes their educational backgrounds and highlights some of their notable animated films. Each animator's biography includes information on where they are from, what schools they attended, awards they have won for their work, and links to their websites for more information.

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2. www.spelacadez.com!
Špela Čadež is a Slovenian animator and filmmaker. After graduating in
Visual Communication Design (2002) in Ljubljana she continued her studies
at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Department of Media Design. !
During her studies in Germany she made two animated puppet films
"Zasukanec" ("Mate to Measure") and "Lovesick" ("Liebeskrank") which
have been screened at over a hundred festivals all over the world and won
more than 30 awards. Since 2008 Špela Čadež works in Slovenia as an
independent animation film director and producer.!
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ŠPELA CADEŽ (SLOVENIA)

3. RASTKO CIRIC (SERBIA)
www.rastkociric.com!
Born in 1955 in Belgrade, Serbia. Full-time Professor of Illustration and Animation at the Faculty of
Applied Arts, University of Arts, Belgrade. !
Made 14 animated films: The Circus Departs (1982); Stop (1983); It’s Not Whether You Win or Lose
(1984); Tango Ragtime (1985, Dunav Film); The Tower of Bababel (1988, Zagreb Film); Ogres and
Bogies (1989, Avala film); Farty (1993); Light in A-Major (1995); Invisible and Poorly Visible Animal
Species (1998, Dunav Film); Magician (1999); Wanted (2001); All Together on the Wireless Machine
(2004); Metamorph (2005, Rastko Ćirić & BS Group); Fantasmagorie 2008 (2008, Rastko Ćirić &
Metamorf); Fantasmagorie 2008 / Stereoscopic version.!

4. VESSELA DANTCHEVA
(BULGARIA)
compote-collective.com/vessela-dantcheva!
Vessela Dantcheva (1975) graduated from Willem de Kooning Art Academy, Rotterdam(2002) with the film Pull Over,
awarded a Cum Laude degree. She attended an exchange in animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York (2001).
Vessela works as an independent film director, producer and visual artist. She is a co-founder of FinFilm animation studio
and Compote Collective. Her films have been screened and awarded at a number of international film festivals. Her
filmography includes Anna Blume (2009), Sometimes (2008), Easy (2004), Wish (2004), Snowman (2002), Wake up
(2002), Pull Over (2001).!

5. MAGDA GUIDI (ITALY)
magdaguidi.tumblr.com!
Pesaro, 1979. Attended five years at the Art
Institute of Urbino, “Scuola del Libro”, and two
years more of specialization course, in
Animation Cinema. Author of Animation Film,
illustrator. !
In her filmography we count works as “Sì, però…
(Yes, but…)” (2000), Nuova Identità (New
Identity, 2003, music video for Tre Allegri
Ragazzi Morti’s song), Ecco, è ora (That’s the
time, 2004), “Via Curiel 8” (2011, winner of the
Torino Film Festival, short section, in cooperation
with Mara Cerri), and two films about Saint
Lazslo: “I miracoli di San Laszlo parte 1” (“St.
Laszlo’s miracles pt. 1”, 2010) and her most
recent work, “San Laszlo contro Santa Maria
egiziaca” (St. Laszlo vs St. Mary from Egypt”).!

6. JONI MÄNNISTÖ
(FINLAND)
jonimannisto.weebly.com!
Joni Männistö is an animation director and animator, born in 1981 in Nakkila, Finland. After graduating from the
animation department of Turku Arts Academy in 2011 he joined two Finnish animation collectives, Paperihattu
and Turun Anikistit. His latest films, Kuhina/ Swarming (2011) and Electric Soul (2013), won many awards and
were screened all over the world.!

7. REGINA PESSOA
(PORTUGAL)
www.ciclopefilmes.com/regina-pessoa!
Born in Coimbra in 1969, graduates at the Oporto University of Fine Arts. In 1992 begins working in Filmógrafo, where
she collaborates as an animator. In 1999 animates and directs her first author film “A Noite” (The Night), engraving in
plaster plates and won 9 awards. In 2005 animates and directs her second short animation film “Tragic Story with
Happy Ending”, whose project received 3 prizes in Annecy “Espace Projects” 2001, and recently won 26 awards in
various festivals around the world. Her latest work is the dark and tender story of “KALI, the little vampire” (2013),
narrated by Oscar winner Christopher Plummer.!

8. ÜLO PIKKOV
(ESTONIA)
www.joonisfilm.ee!
Ülo (b. 1976) studied animation at Turku Arts Academy
in Finland and since 1996 has directed several award-winning
short animation films in Eesti
Joonisfilm and Nukufilmstudios. !
His articles, caricatures and illustrations have been
published in the Estonian press. In 2005 he graduated
from the Institute of Law in University of Tartu,
focusing on the media and author’s rights. Since then,
he has worked as a manager and producer for
documentary and animation films in Silmviburlane.!
In parallel with producer’s work Ülo has continued
directing his own animation films and supporting new
talents in the Estonian animation scene. !
Together with Priit Pärn he is the founder and associate
professor of the Animation Department in the Estonian
Academy of Arts. !

9. MARINA ROSSET
(SWITZERLAND)
www.marinarosset.ch!
Born in 1984 in Lausanne, Marina Rosset studied film at the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de la
Cambre in Brussels, as well as at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She has already made five
short films: Apres Le Chat (2005), Botteoubateau (2007), La Main De L'Ours (2008) and Laterarius, (which was
screened at Locarno in 2010), and La Fille aux Feuilles (2013).!

10. GÁBOR ULRICH
(HUNGARY)
www.ulrich.hu!
Gábor Ulrich was born in 1967. !
He graduated from the Kecskemét Teacher Training
College, visual course in 1990. Animation director, fine
artist and professor of arts. In the focus of his oeuvre is
the human body and its structures, he experiments with
the forms in his films, which were screened at several
festivals from Annecy to Hiroshima, from Rio de Janeiro
to Kiev, in Zagreb, Espinho and Leipzig, in more than
thirty cities. Winner of several prizes, his film Before
has been nominated to the Cartoon d'Or Award, one of
the most prestigious awards of the animation film.
Professor of more schools and universities.!
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11. PETRA ZLONOGA
(CROATIA)
ikonartsfoundation.org/artist-petra-zlonoga-animation!
Petra Zlonoga (1982) holds an MA in Graphic Design from the School of Design (2007) and MA in Animated
Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (2011). Since 2009 she works as a freelance
graphic designer, illustrator and animator. She made several awarded animated films during her studies:
Daniil Ivanovich, Marry Me (2007), Gregor (2010), Fox (2010), and Daniil Ivanovich, You Are Free (2011). !
In the beginning of 2014 she has finished her first professional animated film Hunger.!

12. THE IMAGES CONTAINED IN THIS SLIDESHOW ARE TAKEN FROM THE ARTISTS'
PREVIOUS WORKS AND DO NOT REPRESENT FINAL RESULT.