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Abdollah Alimorad
He was born in 1947, in Tehran. He has learned animation in Experimental
and Educational Center of KANOON, and also has taken a course in Puppet
Animation in Czech.
His thirty years of working in film branch of KANOON has resulted in ten
puppet and animated movies:
Children in the Museum, The Role Key, Parrot and the Grocer, Experience,
Trick, Jewel Mountain, Traveling to Puppet's World, One Is Not Enough,
Bahador, White-winged, and Once A Crow...
These films have accomplished to receive various prizes in national and
international festivals.
Now Alimorad is teaching animation to youngsters and for this purpose,
he has also written two books, published by KANOON: "Look: How to Make a
Puppet Animation" and "Simple Methods for Making Animation". |
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Borivoj Dovnikovic' Bordo
Born in 1930, Osijek. H attended secondary school in Belgrade and moved
to Zagreb in 1949, to study at the Academy of Fine Arts while working as
a newspaper cartoonist and illustrator.
In the early 1950s, he joined a group of cartoonists who were trying to
produce the first Croatian artistic cartoon film, "The Big Meeting"
(1950-51), which marked the beginning of the internationally renowned
Zagreb School of Animated Films.
He also participated in efforts to produce new animated film as a
designer & animator. In 1958, he joined the newly founded Animation
Studio at Zagreb film as a designer and animator and in 1961 he began to
make his own films. Over the next thirty years, his films won awards at
numerous international film festivals. Since 1995, he has received a
series of local and international awards for his contribution to
Croatian/Yugoslav films and animation.
Retrospective presentations of his films were held in many cities and at
a number of festivals, including Zagreb School retrospectives. In 1983,
he published a book entitled "How to Make Cartoon" which was translated
to French in 2000. He has been envolved in the organization of the world
festival of animated films in Zagreb since its very beginning in 1972,
first as a member of the festival council and the steering committee,
and from 1979 as the chairman of the steering committee. From 1985 to
1991, he was the festival director, and at Zagreb 2000 he was the
festival's artistic advisor. From 1977 to 1982 he was active as a member
of the board of ASIFA, the International Association of Animated Films
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Nancy Marie
Born in 1942, in Britain, under the name of Agnes Watson Marie and
Canadian origin. After finishing her studies, left England for a two
year staying in Lebanon, and then went to Canada. In 1989 joined the
National Film Board of Canada, at first working in sales and marketing
section for documentary and animation productions. For a while she was
responsible for a part of Europe and the Middle East, and currently is
the head of Sales and Marketing for Europe and Africa, in NFB. |
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Olivier Catherin
Olivier Catherin was born in Paris in 1965. A trained ethnologist, he
attended a master class in the management of cultural enterprises in
1997. After working for a film distributor, he founded "Les Films des
Quatre Rivers", and was also employed by a federation of film societies.
He became a member of the board of the French Animated Films Association
in March 2000, and has been employed there full-time since 2002. He is
the French representative of the ASIFA Board, and is in charge of
coordinating international Animation Day which takes place every year on
October 28th. |
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Otto Alder
Born in 1953, in Herisau, Switzerland. Studied at the Economic
Department of the Kolbing College in Stuttgart. For some years, among
other activities, he was working as a curator and organizer of Stuttgart
International Animation Film Festival, and he is still working closely
as a program adviser and selector for some festivals in Germany, Estonia
and Finland. In 1994 he founded and since then he is one of the
directors of the International Animation Film Festival Fanloche in
Switzerland. He often served as a member on juries or selection
committees at festivals all over the world.
As a film director he has made some films for the German television. He
has also made several documentaries about some famous animation artist
like Priit Pá'rn and Fyodor Khitruk.
Since 2002 he is teaching history and aesthetics of animation at the
Animation Department of the Art College "HGK" in Lucerne.
The animated short "The Moon" is one of his last works. |
