Thomas Laurance is an award-winning director of documentary and fiction. After studying direction at the Northern Film School in Leeds and screenwriting at FAMU in Prague, his graduation short, 'The Bottle', won Best Film at the 2013 Horizon Film Festival.

He followed up with the deeply personal, vérité documentary, 'William Laurance & Sons Marine Engineers', which featured at Sheffield Doc Fest 2015.

In addition to writing and directing, Thomas has worked as a set and scenery carpenter and a prop maker on films such as Tim Burton's 'Dumbo'. This skill-set proved very useful in the informal refugee camp known as the Calais 'Jungle', where Thomas volunteered for a year in 2016. This experience became the basis of his feature documentary 'On Our Doorstep' which featured at the 2021 Leeds International Film Festival and was given the Martello Award at the 2022 Cinque Ports International Documentary Film Festival.

Marianne 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 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.

- 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.