2024 TV & Commissioned Films Jury
Discover the TV & Commissioned Films jury members for the 2024 edition’s awards.
Jérémie DEGRUSON
Director
nWave Pictures
Belgium
A Supinfocom/Rubika (Valenciennes, 1994) graduate, Jérémie Degruson began working as a 3D generalist on advertisements, films for theme parks and large-format (IMAX) medium-length films. In 2005, he became Project Leader then Art Director on the animation films Fly Me to the Moon (2008) and A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (2010).
In 2011, he was in charge of the attraction The Little Prince 4D, which was most notably screened at Futuroscope in Poitiers, and in 2013 he co-directed his first animation feature film The House of Magic alongside Ben Stassen. In 2017, the duo directed Bigfoot Junior, followed by the sequel, Bigfoot Family (Annecy 2020 Official Selection). The Inseparables was his first solo animation feature film (Annecy 2023 Official Selection).
Jérémie is currently working on a new animation feature entitled YUGLY.
Nina SABNANI
Filmmaker, Educator, Researcher
India
Nina Sabnani has a way of putting together lost and found objects, the memory being one of them.
Her animated films are rich collaborations with artists and folk fablers and have earned critical acclaim. Her film We Make Images with Sher Singh Bhil, won the National Award in 2016. In 2021 she was conferred with the Legend of Indian Animation Award from Toonz Media Group.
She taught at NID Ahmedabad for 22 years and at IDC, IIT Bombay for 15 years. Her students do her proud. She has served as a jury member at Seoul Indie-AniFest (2017) and SIGGRAPH Asia (2023).
At present, she is associated with Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore, and UPES, Dehradun. Nina is currently working on a short animation film with Sheela, her 90-year-old mother and her memories of the partition.
Raphaëlle STOLZ
Director
Switzerland
Raphaëlle Stolz is a French-Swiss artist, born in Geneva in 1989. A multi-talented artist, she is an animation short film director, art director, set designer, animator and painter.
She graduated in illustration and painting from the École Émile Cohl in 2011, presenting several books and a series of paintings in her already distinctive style. She joined GOBELINS, l’école de l’image, to do animation film in 2014 with the desire to put her world in motion. She made a group of short films including Edgard, already revealing themes such as madness, mourning and human incomprehension, but with notes of absurdist humour that would continue to be predominant in her following work.
She directed her first 3-minute film, Le Salsifis du Bengale, for the Desnos programme in the En sortant de l’école collection, in which she continued to tackle themes like tyranny but always with a light-hearted touch.
In her second film Miracasas, she unleashed her colourful, lavish universe, the culmination of years of work. With an air of magical realism, the film makes us wonder about what the final journey to death may be like, in a village that feels like the end of the world. This short film was well received at festivals with over sixty selections and numerous awards, including the Grand Prix at the Festival national du film d'animation de Rennes (AFCA).
She has also worked on sets for feature films including The Crossing, Ernest & Celestine, a Trip to Gibberitia, Àma Gloria, Ghost Cat Anzu, as well as doing graphic research and animation on short films and music videos including King of Sea and To Make Your Dream. She is currently preparing her first solo painting exhibition scheduled for the end of 2024. This will take viewers into a whole different world, but still dreamlike and strange. Another project is in the writing stage, with the idea of taking viewers into infinite multicoloured dreams.