Agnieszka Kruczek is a graduate of Hochschule Hannover in Multimedia Design and the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, where she produced the award-winning film "War," showcased at international festivals and by UNICEF. She held scholarships at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, the Berlinale Talent Campus, and the European Animation Exchange Forum. She worked on the 3D film "Back to Gaya" and since 2006 has directed animation, advertising, music videos, and video installations for TV stations like ARTE and ZDF. Her work has been featured in exhibitions across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. As a partner at cats'n'dogz, she co-produced the award-winning children’s app Lucy&Pogo, based on Paweł Pawlak's book.

Danyil Pinko - Animation director, based in Kyiv. In his films, Danyil used to experiment with various animation techniques. Since 2018 he produces audiovisual content for The War Museum. Also, he is researching on the queer film, horrors and history of animation.

More than 20 years working in the field of Copyright. Before entering the world of cinema and television, he worked as the head of the Lithuanian branch of the Nordic copyright bureau (NCB). Since 2011, he has been the head of the Association of Authors and Producers of Lithuanian Audiovisual Works AVAKA. Organizer of the National Film Awards "Silver Crane".

Lithuanian born director and animator, Eglė Davidavičė began making short films at Skalvija Film Academy and continued her animation studies at Vilnius Academy of Arts which she graduated in 2019. Both of her student films were nominated for the Best Student Film award by the Lithuanian Film Academy.
Her first produced film, THE ONE WHO KNOWS, has just been completed.

In 2017 she graduated London College of Communication studies in BA hons Animation.

Her practice includes the creation of Digital 2D animations and the production of experimental and commercial projects within the animation film industry. Over the years Emile has created a big network of collaborators spamming from musicians, illustrations to music & film festivals. She has led traditional animation workshops, for children of different ages, in Lithuania and Ireland.

Graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in 2019 with a degree in animation. During her studies she created two short films and two interdisciplinary installations. Her 2017 animated short film "Mono No Aware" won the Best Student Film Award at the 2018 Cinema Spring Film Festival in Vilnius. In 2018 she studied illustration as part of a study exchange with Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

Currently, she is working on her debut animated short film "Family Album" in collaboration with "Akis Bado" producer Giedre Burokaite.

Eva Rodz is Animatest educational project manager, artist, director. Although Eva mainly uses animation as a tool for contemporary installations, she has also started to create educational programmes and animated films. Eva's debut film "I'm Tired" was presented at the BLON Animation and Video Games Festival in 2022 and won the main prize in the Lithuanian Creators Programme. Eva is currently teaching animation to future students of the Vilnius Academy of Arts and writing a new script for a future film.

Greta Semionovaitė - animator. In 2023 graduated from the animation studies program at the University for the Creative Arts. In total, she directed three short films during her studies. "Thoughts About The Universe That Will Keep You Awake" (2023) is a graduation film which explores the meaning of life. After studies, she came back to Lithuania and currently works on TV series.

Gytis Baranauskas was born 2000 years after Christ.
He finished school and after that, he studied animation at Vilnius Art
Academy.
Gytis mainly works on music videos, animation, visuals. He uses a stream of thoughts as a creative process and somehow those random ideas in the end - becomes one big creation which even looks like it was really thoroughly thought out. No it was not.

Helena Stańczyk is a third-year student of Animation and Special Effects at the Łódź Film School. She is a graduate of the State High School of Fine Arts in Warsaw, specializing in Intermedia Realization. She became interested in animation at the age of 13 during animation workshops in Legnica, which she attends every year—initially as a participant, and now to help children and teenagers create their own films.

Ieva Nemunytė - Animatest team volunteer, young generation artist. She met the team during an Animatest course, during which she created her first animated short film "The Bulb". During the course, Ieva discovered not only a new motivation to animate, but also the urge to share this knowledge with others. She is currently testing herself in the field of education and pursuing higher education in the arts.

Ignas Meilūnas (1985) is Lithuanian animation director and producer. After years of working with different animation techniques Ignas settled on stop motion animation and usually works with short films for young audiences. His films have travelled and won awards in some of the biggest international film festivals worldwide. Ignas is a co-founder of Vilnius based animation studio "Kadrų Skyrius".

Justė Michailinaitė is a producer from Lithuania. During BLON, she will moderate a few discussions.

Laura Bikulčytė is an artist, animation student at Vilnius Academy of Arts. She has experience in education, animation, art, has led a children's seminar at the Spring Festival of Cinema and a workshop at the creative camp for children and youth "Atgaja". During her studies she is working on short animations. I found out about Animatest from social networks and the Academy community. It is great to join the team of educators at the Blon Festival!

Margarita Valionytė graduated from the VDA in 2023 with a BA in Animation and has been co-educating together with Animatest since 2022 and is one of the team members. In 2021, she screened her short film "Esh" for the first time at the BLON festival, and has also participated in international animation festivals-workshops organised by the Cologne Academy of Media Arts. Together with a group of animation students, they projected animated visualisations on a building at the 2022 Kaunas Light Festival.

Rimantė Daugėlaitė has been the head of the Vilnius Short Film Festival since 2009, and co-founder and the managing director of the Lithuanian Short Film Agency, "Lithuanian Shorts," since 2012. Rimantė has been working in the audiovisual industry for more than ten years and has coordinated multiple audiovisual and film promotion projects, also produced several Lithuanian short films. R. Daugelaite works as an expert in European and national audiovisual and cultural funds. She is a member of the "EWA Network” and the European Film Academy.

Sara Koppel is an animator, creator of artistic installations, and illustrator from Denmark. Her films have been showcased at various international festivals and have garnered over 20 awards. In today's animation landscape, Sara stands out for her organic traditional hand-drawn animation style and bold thematic choices. Her work often addresses environmental issues, gender, and sexuality, and she is also recognized as one of the pioneers of erotic animation. One of Sara Koppel's latest projects is the illustrated graphic novel/comic "Den lille bog om..." ("The Little Book About...") (2020), which she created in collaboration with body and mind therapist, as well as non-fiction writer, Molly Mørch.

Saulius studies animation at the Multimedia Department of Vilnius College of Technology and Design. As a generalist animator, he is interested in experimenting with video production, transcendental spaces and situations, and collective memory scenarios. His ambition is to understand animation.

Silvija Butkutė is an art and film critic and communication specialist who has been contributing to the culture and art magazine Nemunas since 2018. Currently, she is participating in the Lithuanian Shorts mentorship program, where she hosts events and discussions about cinema and learns how to recommend quality films to the TikTok audience (silvija_cinema).

Born and spent a significant part of life in the picturesque city of Kyiv, Ukraine. However, compelled by the large-scale war in 2022, relocated to Cologne, Germany.  Studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) as a media artist and 2D animator. Primary goal, above all, is to support Ukraine through my creativity, narrate our culture, and present a unique perspective from within.

Svitlana Datsenko - Over 20 years she works with memories about The Second World War. In The War Museum in Kyiv Svitlana do interview recordings, collection completing and making of exhibitions. Since 2014 she documents russian terror in Ukraine.

Tomas Mitkus is a lecturer at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and an art director in co-founded animation studio MB “Studio Mitkus”. Tomas has worked in various live action and animated TV, feature, advertising, comic book and video games projects in Lithuania and abroad. Tomas is also a member of Lithuanian film board and an author of few academic books.

Vilija works in graphic design, animation, media art and stop - motion animation. Vilija's work ranges from visual advertising to animated films and media art projects. She is interested in animation in the expanded field and experimenting with materials, so she goes beyond the screen and digital image and looks for ways to bring the illusion of movement into real space. Vilija has worked on stop-motion animation and commercial animation in the animation studio "Kadrų skyrius". She is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Animation and occasionally helps Animatest with their educational sessions.