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Jan Doense is a Dutch producer, director, festival programmer and distributor. He studied law at the University of Amsterdam and film at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy (NFTA), the New York Film Academy (NYFA) and the Binger Filmlab and is a graduate of the European Audiovisual Entrepeneurs (EAVE) Producers' Workshop. He began his career in film as a journalist and was the founding director of the annual Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam. In 2008 he was made a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Read less

Hazel Grian is a writer best known for How to Build a Robot (2017), Star Trek Save Vulcan Alternate Reality Game (2009), KateModern (2007) her work with the band Portishead and with Aardman Animations. The Simpsons (1989) creator Matt Groening described her as a "funny filmmaking genius" when he chose her animation Baby-Cue (1997) as one of his all-time favourites. Hazel began as a writer/performer in theatre, film and radio. Based in Bristol, UK, since the 1990s, Hazel worked very closely with Portishead, making their distinctive stage visuals for the World Tour 1997/98. Her short film Road Trip is included in PNYC: Portishead - Roseland New York (1997) With Web 2.0 she moved into digital interactive media and became internationally renowned as a creator of Alternate Reality Games (ARG) and was a writer on the pioneering Sci-Fi Web Drama Kate Modern (2007) With Bristol's Rubber Republic, Hazel co-created an ARG with J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot for Star Trek (2009) She then became a Creative Director at Aardman Animations, making children's online games including for Cartoon Network and BBC. Whether it's Virtual Reality (VR), robots or games what all Hazel's projects have in common is character, story and humour. Her most recent project is Channel 4's How To Build A Robot (2017) narrated by David Tennant and directed by James W. Newton In this documentary Hazel and the team of designers and engineers create an AI robot that, when alone in the street, asks people what it means to be human. The project is lead by David McGoran who brought Hazel on board because of her "unique set of skills as a writer, performer and voice artist who understands 21st century audience experiences." Read less

George Higham, a NYC-based sculptor/filmmaker attended the School of Visual Arts on a merit scholarship, graduating with a BFA in the late 80's, where he met co-producer/post production supervisor Tony Pellegrino. His SVA thesis film, Necromania, was broadcast on PBS. His early career consisted of creating special effects for film and television. He then began to create sculpture and jewelry for gallery exhibition and sale. Annabel Lee presented a challenge to all of his skills, from designing and sculpting the puppets and sets, to bringing them to life using various special-effects techniques in a dramatic tale of "puppet love." Read less

Founder and principle partner of Brillig Productions, L.L.C, Jurgen Heimann has worked in several areas of the filmmaking process, including camera, animation, special effects, performance, and writing. Born in Germany and raised in the United States, he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Motion Picture Production from Brooks Institute of Photographic Art and Science, graduating with honors and a departmental award for his short subject film entitled 'Fractions'. Over the past years, he has worked as a designer, builder, and puppeteer with effects wizards such as Rick Baker and David Allen, and is a current member of the Screen Actors Guild. He has completed three feature length screenplays - 'Love Mad', 'Twas Brillig', and 'Clambaked'. Each are highlighted with his usual beyond-reality point-of-view and symbolic connections. Through Brillig Productions, he and his team are currently developing 'Clambaked' as well as producing the episodic program Puphedz.

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