Festival Competition Jury - SEAF 2021
This celebrated crew of professional animators from across the globe will make the final call on who wins our 5 coveted competition prizes in 2021.
This celebrated crew of professional animators from across the globe will make the final call on who wins our 5 coveted competition prizes in 2021.
Pre-Screening Jury - SEAF 2021
This wonderful jury of local Baltimore animators, filmmakers, artists, and educators helped to determine the official selection of the 2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival.
This wonderful jury of local Baltimore animators, filmmakers, artists, and educators helped to determine the official selection of the 2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival.
International Competition Jury - SEAF 2021
This jury of renowned, international animators chose the award winners for the 2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival.
This jury of renowned, international animators chose the award winners for the 2021 Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival.
Cassie Shao
Cassie Shao @karasucassie is an animation artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of SAIC and Hench-DADA School of Cinematic Arts at @USC. Her work spans across independent films, music videos, projection mapping, advertising as well as animated television series. Her own films have screened at film festivals worldwide including Annecy, Slamdance, Animafest Zagreb, Ann Arbor, Dok Leipzig, Vienna Shorts, PÖFF Shorts and Ars Independent. karasucassie.com
Cassie Shao @karasucassie is an animation artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of SAIC and Hench-DADA School of Cinematic Arts at @USC. Her work spans across independent films, music videos, projection mapping, advertising as well as animated television series. Her own films have screened at film festivals worldwide including Annecy, Slamdance, Animafest Zagreb, Ann Arbor, Dok Leipzig, Vienna Shorts, PÖFF Shorts and Ars Independent. karasucassie.com
Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo
Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo @jcmbottimalolo is a French animator who graduated from the animation film section of Emile Cohl school in 2007. His student film The Heart is a Metronome received the Hiroshima film festival’s Debut Price in 2008. Even though drawing was his first passion, dance has always been part of his way of expression. He joined his first dance company in 2008. The love he has for drawing and movement in general drove him once again to explore the bridges between the two. He got introduced to sign language in 2011 and started learning it the next year in order to write The Sense of Touch. The film received several international prices. The Words, his first choreographed piece took shape in 2017. The narrative form continued to follow the path of non-verbal communication. On his recent short film Make it Soul, Simon Roussin gontributed art direction, and he co-wrote the piece with Nicolas Pleskof and Amaury Ovise. The film was nominated for the French Oscar of the Best Animated Short in 2020. His lastest work Ex Aequo!, is a hybrid documentary TV series about discrimination athletes faced during their careers. jeancharlesmbottimalolo.tumblr.com
Jean-Charles Mbotti Malolo @jcmbottimalolo is a French animator who graduated from the animation film section of Emile Cohl school in 2007. His student film The Heart is a Metronome received the Hiroshima film festival’s Debut Price in 2008. Even though drawing was his first passion, dance has always been part of his way of expression. He joined his first dance company in 2008. The love he has for drawing and movement in general drove him once again to explore the bridges between the two. He got introduced to sign language in 2011 and started learning it the next year in order to write The Sense of Touch. The film received several international prices. The Words, his first choreographed piece took shape in 2017. The narrative form continued to follow the path of non-verbal communication. On his recent short film Make it Soul, Simon Roussin gontributed art direction, and he co-wrote the piece with Nicolas Pleskof and Amaury Ovise. The film was nominated for the French Oscar of the Best Animated Short in 2020. His lastest work Ex Aequo!, is a hybrid documentary TV series about discrimination athletes faced during their careers. jeancharlesmbottimalolo.tumblr.com
Diana Cam Van Nguyen
Diana Cam Van Nguyen @dianacamvan is a Czech-Vietnamese director based in Prague. Her short films The Little One and Apart competed at IFF Rotterdam, Annecy, BFI, BAFTA Student Film Award 2019 and won several awards at festivals. Her latest short “Love, Dad” (2021) competed in Locarno FF and won BFI Short Film Award and got TIFF special mention. lovedad.film
Diana Cam Van Nguyen @dianacamvan is a Czech-Vietnamese director based in Prague. Her short films The Little One and Apart competed at IFF Rotterdam, Annecy, BFI, BAFTA Student Film Award 2019 and won several awards at festivals. Her latest short “Love, Dad” (2021) competed in Locarno FF and won BFI Short Film Award and got TIFF special mention. lovedad.film
John C. Kelley
John C Kelley @john.c.kelley is an artist living in Knoxville, TN. His animated shorts have screened in international film festivals around the world including the Slamdance Film Festival, GLAS Animation Festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the London International Animation Festival, Linoleum Animation Festival, and many others. His animated short ”GUSTER” (2019) received a Vimeo Staff Pick and the Animated Grit award from Indie Grits Film Fest. ”A Family that Steals Dogs” (2020), received a Vimeo Staff Pick, won “Best 2D Animation Overall” from the Florida Animation Festival, “Best Sound Design” at Ottawa International Animation Festival, and was nominated for “Best Animation Short” at Raindance Film Fest in London. John teaches in the Time-Based Arts at University of Tenessee School of Art. johnckelley.com
John C Kelley @john.c.kelley is an artist living in Knoxville, TN. His animated shorts have screened in international film festivals around the world including the Slamdance Film Festival, GLAS Animation Festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the London International Animation Festival, Linoleum Animation Festival, and many others. His animated short ”GUSTER” (2019) received a Vimeo Staff Pick and the Animated Grit award from Indie Grits Film Fest. ”A Family that Steals Dogs” (2020), received a Vimeo Staff Pick, won “Best 2D Animation Overall” from the Florida Animation Festival, “Best Sound Design” at Ottawa International Animation Festival, and was nominated for “Best Animation Short” at Raindance Film Fest in London. John teaches in the Time-Based Arts at University of Tenessee School of Art. johnckelley.com
Siqi Song
Siqi Song @siqi.song is an Oscar-Nominated animation director from China. Her films have screened internationally at many festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Annecy, Ottawa, and more. Song studied Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts and China Central Academy of Fine Arts. songsiqi.com
Siqi Song @siqi.song is an Oscar-Nominated animation director from China. Her films have screened internationally at many festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Annecy, Ottawa, and more. Song studied Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts and China Central Academy of Fine Arts. songsiqi.com