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Mark Andrews is an Academy Award Winning director of Brave the 2012 Pixar animated film. He’s worked on numerous Pixar films as Head of Story, Incredibles, Ratatouille as well as being part of the Pixar senior creative team. He Co-directed and Co-wrote the live action blockbuster, John Carter of Mars for Disney Feature. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his short animated film One Man Band. He’s received an Emmy for his writing and storyboard work on Star Wars Clone Wars the Animated series, as well as an Annie award for storyboarding on Iron Giant. He is a versatile filmmaker, writer, director and visionary, lending his talents and skills on several other animated feature films and TV series like Samurai Jack, which he wrote and story boarded five episodes, and the New Adventures of Johnny Quest. He’s been a force of Nature in the Animation industry for twenty-six years working at the biggest studios in Animation and Live action. He graduated CALARTS in 1993 with a BFA in film.

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Esther Bialas is born in Wiesbaden in 1982 and raised in Mainz. After living in Frankfurt for a short period of time, she moves to Siberia to work on the ZDF-Project “Sternenflüstern” as an editor assistant. With firm intention to become a Director she moves to Berlin in 2004, where she works as an intern in both theater and film industry. Soon she begins working on independent short film projects of her own, until she begins studying audiovisual media with focus on directing at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. 2007 she takes part in founding the “Das Kind mit der goldenen Jacke” film collective. Two years later her short film “beyond fortune” premieres at Cannes Film Festival. 2010 she begins studying directing at Hamburg Media School, graduating two years later with her short “Stürzende Tauben”, which finds success in domestic and international Festivals, winning numerous awards. Esther Bialas begins collaborating with Nathan Nill on the Series “Komm Schon!” (nominated for the Grimme Award, produced by ZDF). Her newest project, “Wo kein Schatten fällt” will be her debut in cinemas. Esther Bialas lives and works as an independent director in Hamburg. Read less

Garth Jennings began his career as a music video director for bands such as Radiohead, Blur, Beck, R.E.M, Fatboy Slim and many others. His first movie, ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy’ was released in 2005 after which Garth wrote and directed ‘Son of Rambow’ (2008) - a love letter to his childhood and movies. Garth’s first foray into animation was as the writer and director of ‘Sing’ (2016) and he is currently in production on ‘Sing 2’ due for release 4th of July 2021. Garth has written and illustrated ‘The Deadly Seven,’ his first novel in a series and ‘The Wildest Cowboy’ his first picture book for for Macmillan Children’s books. ‘Madame’ is Garth’s first short film and explores some of the darker parts of his imagination.

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