Annecy Festival Residency: The 2022 winning writers

Ismaël Joffroy CHANDOUTIS

Director of Deep Fake / France

After his studies in Belgium and France, at the Higher Institute of Arts (INSAS), the Sint-Lukas Higher Art School and Le Fresnoy ‒ National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis develops a "cinématière", an artistic hybrid practice that expands cinema film into the field of contemporary art. His work questions technologies, memory, virtual reality, and explores the porous worlds of the image.
His films have been selected and won awards at numerous international festivals (Cannes, Annecy, Clermont-Ferrand), and been exhibited in prestigious places: the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Cartier Foundation, Paris; Le Fresnoy ‒ National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Tourcoing; La Villette and the City of Science and Industry, Paris; the Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai; the Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; and the Museum of Communication, Frankfurt.
In 2021, his film Maalbeek notably received the André-Martin Award for a French Short Film at the Annecy Festival, the Adobe Prize and the Audience Prize at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival, and was nominated for the European Film Awards.
Ismaël is currently developing his first feature film, Deep Fake, selected at the Annecy Festival Residency and at the Critics’ Week Next Step programme at the Cannes Film Festival.

Zsuzsanna Kreif

Co-director of Dino Doom / Hungary

I am Zsuzsanna Kreif, freelance animation film director and illustrator based in Budapest, Hungary, a graduate from MOME in 2014. My first animated short film, Limbo-Limbo Travel (2015) was a French-Hungarian co-production, selected for over 100 festivals, including Sundance. The film was also awarded several times and was eligible for the Oscars in 2016. From 2016-2018 I directed the 13-episode animated comedy series Candide with co-directors Balázs Turai and Nándor Bera. The series is a contemporary adaptation of Voltaire’s 18^th century novel, a political satire reflecting on controversial phenomena around the world. Some episodes of the series were in competition at Annecy Festival or Slamdance. In 2020, I directed The Health Benefits of Yoga for Ted-Ed, and co-directed Kaleidoo, an animated sci-fi short for FX’s Cake Series together with Réka Bucsi and Balázs Turai. I am currently teaching in the animation department at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.

Emilio RAMOS

Director of Hanta / Mexico

Emilio Ramos started working in animation 20 years ago. He studied Graphic Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and received an MA in Animation from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona in 2006. His graduation film, Fog, was selected at 54 international film and animation festivals (including Annecy 2007), and won 12 prizes and special distinctions. Since 2010, he has directed several animated short films and audiovisual installations for museographic projects. In 2017, his short film Missing won Best Short Documentary in Guanajuato Film Festival, received a Special Mention in Zinebi Film Festival, and was in the Official Selection at Annecy and at the Ottawa Animation Festival. He is currently producing his first animated feature film: Hanta.

Balazs TURAI

Co-director of Dino Doom / Hungary

I am Balázs Turai, a Hungarian animation designer. I completed a BA at the School of Graphical Research at St. Luc University, Brussels, in 2010, and an MA in Animation Design at MOME, Budapest, in 2012. I created the political web-series Oligarchia in 2015, and co-wrote and co-directed an animated series adaptation of Voltaire’s Candide between 2015 and 2018, with my colleagues Zsuzsanna Kreif and Nándor Bera. My first short film, The Fall of Rome was premiered at Animafest, Zagreb, in 2018. We completed Kaleidoo, a sci-fi short with Zsuzsanna Kreif and Réka Bucsi in 2020. I am currently working on my second film, Amok and teaching Animation Design at a private school in Budapest.

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