Adam Bruynesteyn is a NYC-based filmmaker whose work straddles the line between the absurd and the profound. Specializing in comedy shorts, he also brings a keen eye for storytelling to documentary filmmaking. A professional clown both on and off the screen, his work is infused with a playful irreverence.

His past films include Feedback (2019), Boys Night (2023), 20 Minutes (2023), and most recently, PANOPTICON (2025) and So Long, So Long (2025), two films that showcase his ever-evolving cinematic voice.

Matteo Burani is an animation director born in Bologna (Italy) in 1991. A self-taught artist, he began his experience in stop-motion in 2010 by founding Studio Croma, where he works as a puppet maker and character designer on various projects.

Experimenting with numerous animated languages, he made his debut as a film director in 2017 with music videos, commercials and shortfilms.He is currently responsible for overseeing the puppet department at Studio Croma and handles the writing and directing of all projects.

Charles C. Richer graduated from Champlain College in 2016 with a degree in Creative Arts with a specialization in Film, and from Concordia University in 2020 with a bachelor's degree in Communications with a specialization in Video. With a passion for writing, he wrote and directed several short films during his studies, including the final short of his Cégep program entitled: Extra Credit. During the pandemic, he launched the Stout Un Film Podcast. The show combines his passion for film and microbrewery beer. Go Fork Yourself is his first festival work.

Bianca Caderas (1990) from Basel and Kerstin Zemp (1993) from Lucerne, successfully completed their Bachelor in Animation 2D at the Lucerne School of Art & Design in 2017 with their short film „Living Like Heta“ (co-directed with Isabella Luu). Their graduation film was shown at numerous animation festivals around the world, including SHORTSHORTS (Tokyo), Animafest (Zagreb) and Warsaw Film Festival. „Living Like Heta‘‘ received the High Swiss Risk Award at Fantoche 2017 and was awarded the Innerschweizer Filmpreis in 2019. Both moved abroad for several years after graduating: Bianca to Hamburg for her film studies and Kerstin worked in Ireland as a freelance illustrator and animator. In 2020, Bianca comple- ted her writer-director’s film „Jeroboam“, which was made in collaboration with Kerstin. „Matta and Matto“ 2023 is their second short film, which they directed together.