There are 28 films taking part in the Polish Animated Film Competition. The international jury will decide who will win the Golden, Silver and Bronze Animusz:
Rose Bond
Rose Bond creates work at the juncture of expanded cinema and experimental animation. Her large-scale animated installations navigate the allegories of place and illuminate urban space with fragments of the often overlooked – the ‘other’. With roots in frame-by-frame, hand drawn animation, she has since turned her focus towards public media performances. Her current work-in-progress, Earths to Come, an interdisciplinary collaboration with composer inti figgis-vizueta and Roomful of Teeth, pushes her cinema-born aesthetic into the spatialized terrain of VR and domes. Earths to Come, was developed in part at a Multi-disciplinary residency at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC and at the 2024 Venice Biennale Immersive College. Recent work includes large-scale, multi-screen live projections for symphony with works by avant-garde composers Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia, 2020 and Olivier Messiaen‘s Turangalîla- Symphonie, 2016. Other animated installations include: two pieces for the permanent collection at the Portland Chinatown Museum, 2018; Illumination No.1 reprise at Portland’s Old Town Society Hotel, 2014; a prototype for a media installation in the Smithsonian’s Arts & Industries Building, 2012; Broadsided! at Exeter Castle, 2010; Intra Muros, shown during the 2007 Platform International Animation Festival and reprised for the Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, 2008, and Nuit Blanche, Toronto 2011. Bond’s paint-on-film animated films have been presented at major international festivals and are held in the MoMA Film Collection. She has received support from The Princess Grace Foundation, Bloomberg LP, Prince Bernhard Culture Foundation, Creative Heights Oregon Community Arts, the National Film Board of Canada, Arts Council England, the Canada Council for the Arts, American Film Institute, and the National Endowment for the arts. Her work has been cited in numerous publications including Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art, Re-imagining Animation: The Changing Face of the Moving Image, The Animation Bible, Experimental and Expanded Animation: New Perspectives & Practices, and the Experimental Animation: From Analogue to Digital. Rose Bond is a Canadian born media artist based in Portland Oregon.
Dante Rustav
Film director, program director of TIAF festival. Was born in Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Directed his first short film in 2020, based on his own script "The Invasion" and won the Jury Award at 26th Nancy IFF (France) Special Award at 25th Split IFF. Also was shown in festivals at Tirana IFF, "ShortShorts" (Tokyo), “GoEast” (Wiesbaden) etc. Since 2016, he has been promoting independent Uzbek films (in which he acted mostly as a producer) - during this time, the films have been shown at 300 international festivals with various awards. He is also an animation teacher in international laboratories and studios for teenagers and children. The focus of these labs is on regions of Central Asia where adolescents have far fewer educational opportunities. Since 2020, he has been involved in curatorial programs, participating as a selector and jury in various festivals. In 2022 founded and hosted - first in 30 years of the Uzbekistan independence - International Animation Festival (TIAF). And at the moment he is the program director of TIAF festival.
Mike Hollingsworth
He served as Supervising Director/Co-Executive Producer of all six seasons of BoJack Horseman and piloted the first season of Tuca and Bertie. His BoJack episode “Fish Out of Water” won the 2017 Annecy Cristal and was voted the number one episode of television by Variety and Time magazines that year. On the show he also did voices, some writing, and most of the animal gags. He has written on Comedy Central’s Triptank and was Supervising Director on HBO’s The Life and Times of Tim. His independent animated shorts have been featured in The Annecy Animation festival in France, The HBO Aspen Comedy Festival, The Nicktoons Animation Festival, The Pictoplasma Conference in Germany and Animation Block Party, to name a few. Most recently Mike was the Supervising Director for Standing By for Hulu/Bento Box. Before that, he was under an overall deal at Netflix Adult Animation where he was an EP on Inside Job and EP/writer/Supervising Director on Cat Burglar.
