Otto Alder

Otto Alder has been serving as a programme curator for festivals all over the world and as a member of juries
and selection committees at many animation festivals. He was running the Stuttgart International Animation Film Festival (1987 to 1992), was director of the animation programme at the Leipzig Festival from 1993 to 2007, where he established the animated documentary (Animadoc) section. He established the Tough-Eye Festival (Turku) and the international festival Animated Dreams (Tallinn). He was also co-founder and co-director of Fantoche International Animation Festival (1994 to 2005). Besides making his own films and photographs, he has been teaching since 2002 history of moving images and animation history at Lucerne University of Art & Design, where he is professor at the animation department. In 2009 he established and directed LIAA (Lucerne International Animation Academy). Alder is a member of ASIFA since 1988 (director of board 1993–1998), of Society for Animation Studies since 2002, member of the Swiss Film Academy and also of the Asia Pacific Screen Academy.