Pre-selection Jury for Short- and Commisioned films and Commercials

This years pre-selection jury for the films in the categories Nordic-Baltic short films and Nordic- Baltic Commisioned films and commercials consisted of Australian writer and director Eddie White, British writer, director and art director Dave King, and Annemette Karpen, head of The Animation House in Copenhagen, Denmark. The pre-selection jury has judged the entries for this years competition, and is responsible for selecting the festival programme in these categories. For more information on the pre-selection jury, please visit our website.

Eddie White, writer and director, has had huge success with his recent short The Cat Piano which he wrote and co-directed. The film, narrated by Australian artist Nick Cave, has won several awards in Australia and was represented at this years International Animated Film Festival at Annecy, France. White is a graduate from Flinders University and made his directorial debut with the animated music video The Bomb (Sixxx Legs) in 2003. He is also the co-founder of Australian animation studio The People's Republic of Animation.

Dave King is a British freelance animator, director, art director and script writer. He has worked with many of the biggest animation studios in Great Brittan, like Cosgrove Hall and Touchwood Animation. His services has been used by among others the BBC, Nickelodeon, Viasat, MTV, Cartoon Network and Warner Brothers. For Warner Brothers he worked as a writer and artist on Looney Tounes and Pink and the Brain.

Annemette Karpen is the head of The Animation House in Copenhagen, Denmark and also runs the Project ANIMA focusing on animation workshops for children. She has recently edited and published the book Danish Cartoons through 100 years. She is educated as a ballet dancer and has a magister's degree in theatre science.

Pre-selection Jury for Student Films

The pre-selection jury for films in the Nordic-Baltic Student Film category consisted of american producer Maki Terashima, norwegian photographer and director Morten Skallerud and Latvian director and animator Vladimir Leschiov.

Maki Terashima-Furuta is vice president at Production IG. She has produced Innocence which won the Orient Express Award in 2004 and was nominated for a Palm d'Or at Cannes. She's also worked on the animated sequences in Kill Bill and Batman: Gothan Knight. Terashima-Furuta was born in Japan and lives in the USA.

Vladimir Leschiov is a known writer, animator, director and producer. The 39 year-old Latvian graduated from the school of arts in Riga in 1989, and worked freelance for some years, before moving to sweden to study animation under Piotr Dumala. Since 2004 he has worked as a professional animator and in 2007 he established LUNOHOD Animation Studio. His films include Insomnia (2004), Lost in Snow (2007) and Wings and Oars (2009) which will be screened at this years festival in Fredrikstad.

Morten Skallerud is a renowned norwegian photographer and director. His pioneering work with new formats has lead to some ingenious ways of capturing the world on film. His most famous film A Year along the Abaondoned Road from 1991 has won a number of awards and was elected 'Best Norwegian short film ever' in 2002 by the norwegian film community. In 2003 Skallerud won the award for best short film at the Large Format Cinema Association's annual conference and film festival in Los Angeles for the film Where the Trains Used To Go.

This years pre-selection was held at Volda, Norway, during the student festival Animation Volda.

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