Roelof van den Bergh studied film and animation at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. As a freelance animator and director he made laser shows and multi media shows from 1989 until 2001, besides the occasional animation for Dutch television.
Two of his animated shorts featured on various festivals: Notice (2004) and Variété (2009). He teaches animation at the HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht) in The Netherlands.
JOANA TOSTE
Joana Toste was born in 1970. She got her degree in industrial design, followed by a post-graduate degree in the same area at the Glasgow School of Art/Centro Português de Design. During this period she studied painting at Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes de Lisboa and in 1992 interrupted her studies during one year, to perform animation studies at Tobistoon.
Since then, she has worked in animation, collaborating with several studios and developing her own projects. In 2004 she created her own production’s company called gomtch-gomtch. Simultaneously, she works in illustration, theatre set design, workshops for children and web design. She had been invited from several festivals for being jury.
IGOR PRASSEL
Igor Prassel was born in 1971 in the Slovenian coast town Koper-Capodistria. He is currently finishing his Masters degree in Media Studies at the Ljubljana Faculty for Graduate Social Sciences Studies. He was a long time co-editor of the only Slovene comics magazine Stripburger. From 1992 he is running a monthly animation film program at the Slovene Cinematheque. He is trying to survive as a freelance journalist (Delo, Ekran), animation film programmer and board member for many different film and contemporary arts festivals in Slovenia and abroad.
He was a jury member at important international animation film festivals (Stuttgart, I Castelli Animati, SICAF, anim’est, Balkanima, Monstra, 25 FPS, Anifest...). From 2008 he collaborates with the World Festival of Animated Films Animafest Zagreb as programme adviser. In 2004 he founded the International Animation Film Festival Animateka, where he is the artistic director.
