Born in Buenos Aires, after obtaining his Ph. D. from the University of Valencia, Dematei has been a director of the Master program in Animation at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona until 2011. Alongside with Laura Piaggio, Dematei is the co-founder of the animation studio “Piaggiodematei”, which enabled the creation of multiple transmedial series that received several awards, the Annecy International Film Animation Festival being one of them. He currently researches and teaches undergraduate cinema students at the National University of Tierra del Fuego.
Originally from Chile, Escala is a medial communicator, producer, member of the Chilean Animation Association and a founder party of “Punkrobot”, an animation studio created in 2010. He has produced the animated series for kids such as “Flipos”, “Las aventuras de Muelín y Perlita”, “La leyenda de Zeta y Ozz” and the shortfilms “I am a little red” and “Historia de un Oso”; being the latter the winner at more than 60 internationals film festivals and acclaimed by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences itself. He is now part of the faculty at the Digital Animation course.
Diego Akel has been working since 2002 with fine arts, photography and animation as creative producer, director, animator, curator and workshop instructor. His short films have been screened at over 200 festivals and venues throughout Brazil and around the world. Akel’s work in the field of experimental animation is internationally recognized as a reference in the area, with workshops given in several states of Brazil and Europe, having his films cited in sites such as Colossal, Cartoon Brew, Hypeness and specialized Brazilian publications such as the Filme Cultura magazine.Today he is developing the term Free Animation, and is researching animation as a spontaneous form of artistic creation using mobile devices, blending cutting-edge technologies with artisanal approaches.
Originally from Moreno, Gorasurreta grew up in San Gregorio, a town located south Santa Fe province. In 1971 he becomes a member of the local movie club where he makes his first approaches to film production. During the mid ‘80s, he moves to Córdoba where he would found the movie club “La Quimera”. In 1996, he is granted a scholarship to study cinema in Berlin and Hamburg. Back again in Argentina, he became a professor for the Film School at the National University of Córdoba. After teaching for two years, Gorasurreta published in 2009 his first book titled “La quimera del cine”. Later on, he would be selected to be the vice principal of the TV and Film division at the Cultural Agency Centre in Córdoba, job he would maintain until his retirement in 2014. At the present time, he divides his time writing a movie script while working on his second book and preparing a staging of “La Voz Humana” by Jean Cocteau.
Born in Buenos Aires, Romero graduated in Plastic Arts at the National University of La Plata. She is currently the artistic director of “TomaVirtual” and was also the director of the critically acclaimed animated film “Anida y el circo flotante”. She was a lecturer on art and animation conferences at the Asunción National University, Paraguay, has she has also been called to act as a judge in numerous animation film festivals. Nowadays she is working the previous stages of what it would be her fifth animated movie, “El gigante egoísta”.
Originally from the city of Rosario, Arteaga has a BA in Social Communication given by the National University of Rosario. Nevertheless, he has studied media production and advertisement at the Rosario Cinema and TV State School. He has compiled the book “Historietas y Películas (cuadritos en movimiento)”, and authored “La pantalla dibujada. Animación desde Santa Fe” and “Historias a la deriva. Rosario y más allá”. Nowadays he teaches to the Rosario School for Animators’ students and is a journalist for the paper Rosario/12. Last but not least, this Rosario native occasionally collaborates for the specialized film buff magazine “Cineficción” and is a host to the radio program “Linterna mágica: Cine, historietas y radio” and the TV shows “Noches de Cine” and “Grandes Directores”.
Born in Mendoza province, Mansilla graduated from the Cuyo Regional TV and Cinema School and has dedicated to being a masterful matchmover and in accomplishing astonishing 3D special effects for the big screen. He has worked as an animator, director and producer emphasizing and animating three dimensionally. He has also done several multidimensional projections and architectonic mapping, on top of being a professor at Universidad Champagnat in the Initiation to 3D class.
Born in Buenos Aires province, Nanni is an artist and a self-taught painter, whom at the young age of 19 was part of the team that would put together the animated series “El Mundo de Mafalda”. For ten years she would continue to animate north American and European TV initiatives. At the moment she finds herself doing animated shortfilms and teaching the basics of 2D animation for beginners and for the more advanced students, she dwells into the techniques for the improvement of the craft. She is considered one of the first argentine women animator.
All the way down south, from the province of Misiones, Bergara finally settled in Buenos Aires to study to become a dentist, but he would end up founding, together with other partners, the «Can Can Club», an animation studio that would birth a myriad of animated short films like «Teclópolis», «Inercia» and «Onion», and also the series of J. P. Zaramella «El hombre más chiquito del mundo». Today, this animation director and illustrator is producing the animated series «2 Little Birds», in collaboration with the Uruguayan animation studio «Palermo».
Born in Córdoba province, Eschoyez is a self-taught animator, motiongrapher, illustrator and graphic designer. He has been a speaker at several conferences and workshops and some of his work has been recognized by the Blender Foundation in Amsterdam. He authored the illustrated magazines “Todo por Uan Dólar” y “Todo por Chú Pesous”, as he is a member of the publishing house called “Buen Gusto Ediciones”. Nowadays he teaches his craft at the Blas Pascal University in Córdoba city.
Born in Buenos Aires, Salviolo obtained her BA in Communication Sciences from Buenos Aires University, and went onto taking postgraduate courses regarding Human and Children’s Rights. She has worked as a consultant, manager, researcher and trainer in communication and childhood issues at different Latin-American organizations, such as UNICEF Argentina, TV Perú, Redlamyc, just to name a few. She founded and also presided the pioneer kids TV channel “Pakapaka” and she was a professor at UBA specifically at the TV Production for Children class. Since 2012 she runs “Latinlab”: an organization dedicated to the production, analysis and research for quality media content destined to children.
Lula was born in Buenos Aires but she’s lived in Barcelona most of her adult life. She is a filmmaker and an animator specialized in stop-motion who has worked for several production companies national and international as well. Alongside with Jordi Piulachs, they founded «La Academia de Animación», a school for all things animation, which many of the projects done there have collected awards and gain recongnition around the world. Inspired by her feminist side, Gómez has succesfully joined her profession with her politic visions in the animated series «Eres una caca»
(https://www.instagram.com/eres_una_caca/).
