PROGRAM

Vivien Forsans is a franco-canadian animation filmmaker based in Montreal. Since 2016, he has directed six short films, which were screened and awarded in over 40 festivals around the world such as the TIFF Next Wave, the Emerging Filmmakers Night or the Sommets du Cinéma d’Animation. His animated film work, colorful and digital, tends to play with both narrative and experimental means, as well as genres and categories of film such as comedy, documentary, drama, and horror.

Ann Marie Fleming is an award-winning Canadian visual artist, writer, director, animator and cross-platform media maker who works in a variety of genres (animation, experimental, documentary and drama). Her work often deals with themes of family, history and memory. Born in the Ryuku Islands (Okinawa Prefecture), under U.S. military occupation, with a mostly-Chinese mother and an Australian father, and no birthright citizenship, no wonder her work often deals with themes of family, history and memory.

Youyang Yu (youyangyu.myportfolio.com) is a animation filmmaker, teacher and curator. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2016, London and kick started his career in Beijing in 2018 as the art director of the 7 th China Independent Animation Film Forum. He co-founded Feinaki Animation Week with a group of internationally well connected Chinese animation artists in 2019 while freelancing as a teaching artist instructing drawing and animation courses in private art studios in Beijing. He now live and works in the twin-city, US.

Student at the GOBELINS school, Fabien Corre, 21, spent his childhood in Brittany where he obtained a Baccalauréat in Applied Arts in 2014. The following year, he joined Paris to learn animation cinema. His taste for filmmaking was reinforced there, and pushed him to want to develop his personal projects in the future.

Kelsi Phung is a final year student in animation at the GOBELINS school, after a short stint at the Ecole des Métiers du Cinéma d'Animation d'Angoulême. He began his career in the film industry with the video "Wonderland" for the band Caravan Palace. Today, his artistic approach revolves around his commitment to the LGBT+ community to which he seeks to give more visibility in the landscape of animation cinema.

Cheng-Hsu Chung is , T,iw,nese ,nim,tion ,rtist ,nd director currently b,sed in Berlin, Germ,ny. Chengʼs ,rtistic pr,ctise focuses on using surre,l im,ges ,nd ch,r,cter perform,nces in ,nim,tion to ,rticul,te the ch,nging n,ture of emotion, modern love rel,tionships ,nd the experiences queer bodies encounter in tod,yʼs queer culture. His work c,n be found ,t film festiv,ls, on TV, ,nd in exhibition venues. His selected clients include Adid,s, Adult Swim, BBC, W,rp Records, BAYER, Berliner Zeitung, ,mong others.

Alexandre Siqueira was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1980. Since 1999 he develops and collaborates in several animated films projects. In 2010 he finish the animation filmmaking course at la Poudrière school, where he directs "Journey to the Sunflowers Fields". "Purpleboy" is his latest animated short film.

Tali Polichtuk is a writer and film programmer. Her work has been published widely and she serves as the Editor of Sissy Screens. Are You Still Watching? is her directorial and screenwriting debut inspired by her love of slash fiction, queer cinema and Sarah Paulson.

Eli Jean Tahchi is a graduate of the Netflix-funded mixed program at the Institut National de l'Image et du Son (INIS) in Montreal. He is a filmmaker and actor. In Beirut, he studied cinema at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and obtained a bachelor's degree in Film & TV Production. In 2011, he moved to Montreal and pursued studies in cinema at the University of Montreal, and finally, at INIS. Eli Jean Tahchi's committed cinema is sharp, human and metaphorically charged. Since 2011, he has accumulated projects of varied and culturally diverse genres.

The paths of Violette Delvoye and Chloé Alliez crossed at La Cambre in 2014, where they directed Projection sur Canapé (Violette) and Toutes Nuancées (Chloé), among others. Following this, they decided to set up together a project of travelling and participative series called World in (Stop)Motion. They spent several months in Europe doing these stop-motion workshops before finally returning to the realm of real French fries. Then began the writing of the short film Les Liaisons Foireuses where Chloé's colorful universe and Violette's sensitivity are mixed. Their adventure now continues in France where they live on love, stop-motion and salted butter.

Tan Wei Keong (b. 1984) is an animation filmmaker. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2022 and a resident at SFFILM FilmHouse for his next short and feature development. His latest film, Kingdom (2018), has been selected to compete at the Berlin International Film Festival. His previous film, Between Us Two (2017), received the Best Singapore Short Film award at Singapore International Film Festival and the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary Short at Outfest LA 2018. His highly acclaimed body of work received international recognition at many film festivals, including those at Annecy, Zagreb, Stuttgart and Toronto. He was awarded the Young Artist Award by the National Arts Council of Singapore in 2019.