WITOLD GIERSZ

A visual artist, screenwriter and director of animated films, a graduate of the directing department of the National Film School in Lodz. He is the co-founder of the so-called Polish School of Animation, author of about sixty films made with the use of various animation techniques. The most important of them are: The Little Western (Mały western), Red and Black (Czerwone i czarne), Awaiting (Oczekiwanie), Horse (Koń), Fire (pożar), Old Cowboy (Stary kowboj), Star (Gwiazda), Signum. He is the winner of approximately one hundred awards and distinctions at national and international festivals, including the ones in Cannes, Oberhausen, San Francisco, Paris, Melbourne, London, Sofia, Prague, Krakow, Rio de Janeiro.

ALICJA WITKOWSKA

Graduate of the Film School in Łódź. Director of animated films, scriptwriter, graphic designer, illustrator. Lecturer at Warsaw School of Advertising. Threetime winner of the Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. Chair of the Animated Film Section of the Polish Filmmakers Association.

MARZENA NEHREBECKA

A director and screenwriter. Her artistic work includes several dozen award-winning animated films, on which she worked as a director, screenwriter and decorator. Among them there are such series as Agi Bagi, Jeżyk i Spręzynka (George the Hedgehog and the Coil), Żubr Pompik (Pompik the Bison), Wiercimisie (The Wriggles), Miś Fantazy (Bear Fantasy), Giggle Wiggle (Chichraszek). She is a three-time recipient of the Polish Film Institute's screenwriting scholarship. The script of Zu was also entered on the Lotte Reiniger List, which recognizes outstanding scripts for animated films. She is a daughter of Władysław Nehrebecki, a pioneer of Polish animation.

NATALIA KRAWCZUK

She graduated from the Faculty of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw and the Animation Department at the Film School in Lodz. She developed her screenwriting skills during a course organized by the La Poudriere Animation School in France, as well as during a semester at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts in Tallinn. Currently, she works as a freelance animator and continues her PhD studies at the Film School in Lodz.

JANUSZ MARTYN

A director, author of character designs and graphics for animated films and advertising campaigns. He started his artistic work in 1989 in the French-Polish company Animapol, where he obtained qualifications as a cartoon film animator. He participated in the production of several dozen films as an animator and layoutman. He made his debut as a director in 1997 with the medium-length film Cat’s Easter (Kocia Wielkanoc). He worked as a director, character author, layoutman and animator in the Polish edition of Sesame Street. In 2002, he took part as a key animator in the animated version of Mr. Bean (VARGA STUDIO, Tiger Aspect). The movie Where is the New Year? (Gdzie jest Nowy Rok ?) which he directed received many awards around the world, including: Special Young Jury Award at the International Festival of Television Films for Children "Prix Danube" in Bratislava (2007).