We had a chat with Tess Martin, an independent filmmaker, animator and this year's Animateka juror.  She told us about her view on animation, her experience of living and creating in Netherlands and her programme on Animateka.

John Canciani is the artistic director of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and is programmer at the Filmfoyer Winterthur. He curated several programs with Short and Feature Length Films.

Andreas Hykade is one of the most talented and original voices in animation today. He studied animation at the prestigious Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

The participants, all four of us (aged 8 to 12), had met in Tobačna a week before the workshop began in order to start developing our idea. The only plot that was already there was a story about a boy called Sesalkor, who had once cleaned the Earth’s air with his v...