2026 Official Short Films Jury
Discover the Official Short Films jury members for the 2025 edition’s awards.
Marina ROSSET
Director, Producer
Switzerland
Born in 1984, Lausanne, Switzerland, Marina Rosset studied animation at ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels, then at HGK Luzern, where she directed After the Cat (2005), Bottoobahtoh (2007) and The Bear's Hand (2008). All of these films won awards at international festivals.
She went on to direct and produce the short films Laterarius (2010) and The Girl with the Leaves (2013). In 2010, with the Slovenian Director Špela Čadež, she co-directed Last Minute, an experimental animation film combining shadows and chalk drawings on a blackboard. She also regularly works as an editor on short and feature-length animation films, including the animatic for Claude Barras's My Life as a Courgette. Her latest short film, The Queen of Foxes (2022), has scooped numerous awards at festivals, including two at the 2022 Annecy International Animation Film Festival. She is currently directing a new short film, Dévoration, scheduled for release in 2028, while simultaneously developing a medium-length film project.
David SILVERMAN
Animator, Director
USA
David Silverman was born in Long Island, New York in 1957. His passion for drawing began at the age of 4, and by the time he was 9, he wanted to become a cartoonist. He graduated from the UCLA with an MFA in Animation, and after various illustrating and animating jobs, David worked as an animator for the cartoon scenes in the live-action film One Crazy Summer (1986). This, in turn, led him to animating, along with Wes Archer, on all 48 The Simpsons shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show (1987-89).
The launch of the first stand-alone season of The Simpsons followed and David became Co-Producer and Supervising Animation Director. He is largely credited with determining the "rules" for both drawing the characters and acting guidelines. To date, he has directed 24 episodes, gaining him 4 Emmy awards along the way.
David left The Simpsons in 1996 and worked as the co-director on Road to Eldorado (1998) and Monsters, Inc. (2001), story consultant on Ice Age (2002), as well as animation consultant and storyboard artist on Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). He resumed directing The Simpsons and became Supervising Director. He directed The Simpsons Movie (2007) and, in 2012, he co-wrote and directed the Academy-Award nominated animated short Maggie Simpson in the Longest Daycare.
Since 2020, David has directed Extinct (2021), 12 Simpsons shorts, as well as several special projects for the show. He has returned to directing The Simpsons episodes, starting with Treehouse of Horror #37, for October 2026 release, and he will serve as the animation consultant for the upcoming Simpsons feature (release date 2027).
Cristobal TAPIA DE VEER
Composer
Chile, Canada
Growing up during Pinochet's military dictatorship in Chile and having found refuge in Canada as an adolescent, Cristobal Tapia de Veer – Cristo – has come a long way and is now a four-time Emmy and BAFTA-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist, whose classical music training and ingenious sense of composition opened a new dimension to cinematic music and brought him iconic status. He is widely known for his works on critically acclaimed cult series like Channel 4's Utopia and Black Mirror, The White Lotus as well as #1 box-office surprise hit Smile (Paramount).