Marianne Lavergne
Country: CanadaMarianne Lavergne is a Concordia Film Animation alum. She loves getting her hands dirty with plasticine and incorporating its materiality in design and animation, even though she hates the process of digging it out from under her nails. She explores sexuality and gender through an absurdist and grotesque lens, while always trying to imbue the stories with humor. When she’s not forcing her characters to go through silly scenarios, Marianne enjoys picking up any craft she can get her hands on with overconfidence.
Edie Lawrence
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandEdie Lawrence is a stop motion animator, artist and director based in Bristol. Although currently primarily focusing on claymation, Lawrence comes from a background of Illustration, mostly focusing on portraiture. She explains: "I have a passion for storytelling, music, sculpture and film, and stop motion animation allows you to morph all of these things together. Plasticine, my current medium of choice, is a material that is quite similar to oil painting. Although solid, it can forgivingly be melted down and layered to create different tones and textures. When solid, you can carve and dig away at the cracks and crevices to make the creation even more gaunt and harrowing."
Everyday events and the people around Lawrence tend to be her biggest inspiration when creating, which means a lot of the time her style is subconsciously dark and twisted. Edie's work has most commonly been described as creepy, disturbing, sinister, surreal, grotesque and deranged.
Brian Lederman
Country: United States of AmericaBrian is an emerging writer/director based in the New York City area. Over the past few years he's done things like direct dramatic narratives, edit reality television, and write sketch comedy. “Pushover” is his second short film and, after working almost exclusively in the YouTube space for several years, a return to his more passionate, cinematic roots.
Jana Leeuwerck
Country: Belgium- Masterfilm Sunny Beach (2022 - 2023 /6min)
- Bachelor film Mad Evil Love (2022 - 2 min.);
- Microwave (2021 - 20 sec.);
- Moving painting (2021 - 20 sec;);
- Colours (2020 - 2 min.).
I am Jana Leeuwerck and have just graduated with a master's degree in animation film at Luca School of Arts in Brussels . I have a previous education in Visual design in Ghent (also Luca School of Arts). The course in Ghent was focused on graphic arts and illustration with an introduction to animation. After this study, I started the transition year in animation film, which I have just finished.
