2019

Christian Kuntz is a Copenhagen-based animator who produces 2D animation, characters and storyboards for films, commercials, TV series and music videos. He has over 20 years of experience in the field of animation; having worked for high-profile companies such as Warner Bros, Dreamworks, Wes Anderson, and many others.

Wouter Bongaerts, an animation director, obtained his master’s degree in Animation at the Luca School of Arts in Genk, Belgium, and things got rolling after that. His graduation project, MOUSE FOR SALE, screened at various international film festivals and received over a dozen prizes including the coveted VAF Wildcard, granting the winner a scholarship to create their first professional short film. This resulted in MIA: Woulter’s directorial debut, which picked up world prizes including in Clermont-Ferrand, the Austin Film Festival, and Anima Brussels.

Sophie Olga de Jong grew up in the small village of Bergen in the Netherlands. Being the daughter of an illustrator and having ambition to become a comic artist, she started drawing at an early age yet had trouble repeating the same characters. Whilst attending St Joost Art School, Sophie became quite fond of animation, and had no trouble drawing the same character 24 times for every second of a film.