Christian De Vita was born in Rome in 1973. He studied cinematography at the Instituto della Cinematografia e Televisione in Rome. He was assistant animator on Warner Brothers‘ „Space Jam“. From 2002 Christian worked in Stockholm on storyboards for Magnus Carlsson, famous for his Radiohead promo as well as directing animated TV series in the UK. With colleague Paul McKeown he forms McKeown-DeVita Productions (now OneHandClapping). In 2007 he led the Wes Anderson „Fantastic Mr Fox“ story team. After story work on German production "Little Big Panda", Christian is now currently working on Tim Burton‘s „Frankenweenie“.

Insa Wiese was born in 1978 in the rural part of East Friesland. She studied Arts and German Language and Literature at the University of Oldenburg. There, she discovered her passion for movie shorts, she implemented her own filmlets and organized the small short film festival zwergWERK. After having worked several years for the Hamburg International Short Film Festival, she's working as the head of the organisation of the Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche.

Iva Švarcová was born in 1963 and studied at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). Her graduation piece, the short film „The Woman of His Life“ already won the German Film Prize. Since then she has adapted, written and produced many prize winning documentaries and fiction films. The last documentary produced by her, „2 or 3 Things I Know about Him“ by Malte Ludin, was acclaimed worldwide and ran in German cinemas for more than 9 months. Also in the USA the film garnered major praise.

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Volker Schlecht is an illustrator, animated filmmaker and designer. In 2002 he established the Berlin-based working co-operative Drushba Pankow together with Alexandra Kardinar. He had an animation lectureship at the College of Art (HfBK) Dresden in Professor Lutz Dammbeck‘s class and for several years he was an artistic assistant on the animation course at the Film and Television Academy „Konrad Wolf“. All of his film were also screened at Filmfest Dresden: 1997 „Pink Street“, „Germania Wurst“ won a Golden Horseman in 2009, while „Nothing Else“ was the „Best Animation Film in the National Competition“ in 2001.

Franz Winzentsen was born in 1939 in Hamburg. He studied painting, graphics and photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg and is the inventor of the rabbit-signal-alphabet. Since 1964 he has been making experimental animated films, essay and fiction films with animated components and children's films. From 1987 to 2002 he was Professor of Animated Film at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. Since 1990 he has worked in his studio in Kutenholz and he lives in Stade. In 2000 he received the Lower Saxony Art Prize for Film.