2025 VR Works Jury
Discover the VR Works jury members for the 2025 edition’s awards.
Andrew RUHEMANN
Producer, Director and Founder of PASSION PICTURES
United Kingdom
Andrew Ruhemann, Academy Award-winning filmmaker and founder of PASSION PICTURES, established the studio in 1987 after working on Who Framed Roger Rabbit under mentor Richard Williams. Instilled with the values of story, character, and craft, Andrew embedded these principles into PASSION’s DNA.
Under his leadership, PASSION has become an industry-leading, proudly independent production company, uniquely renowned for both groundbreaking animation and impactful documentaries. Andrew’s directorial debut, The Lost Thing, won an Oscar for Best Animated Short, while PASSION Documentaries won Academy Awards for Searching for Sugar Man and One Day in September. His latest short, The Day I Became a Bird, is soon to be adapted into a video game.
As Creative Director, Ruhemann nurtures emerging talent and ensures PASSION’s stories are told with heart, integrity and, of course, PASSION.
Dominique Seutin
Co-Director and Programmer of the Anima Festival
Belgium
Dominique Seutin holds a degree in Film and Contemporary Art History from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She has been part of the Brussels International Animation Film Festival (Anima) team for 25 years and Director since June 2020.
As a specialist in animation film, she uses her expertise to advise and programme festivals in Belgium and internationally. Additionally, she works with students and young professionals and serves on various selection committees and juries.
Robertino ZAMBRANO
Director, Producer, Designer and Illustrator
Philippines, Australie
Robertino is a Filipino-Australian Oscars-shortlisted animator, director and producer, specialising in hybrid animation techniques. He is the founder of KAPWA, a Sydney-based animation studio.
His debut short film, Love in the Time of March Madness, won Best Online Short at the Tribeca Film Festival, it was screened at Annecy, nominated for an AACTA, and shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2016. In 2019, his TED-Ed poetic animation Accents, won the Cristal for a Commissioned Film at Annecy.
Most recently, Robertino directed Billie Eilish's music video Not My Responsibility, as part of the Grammy-nominated Disney+ concert film Happier Than Ever (2021). He has created work for Titmouse, Cartoon Network, and Adult Swim, a title sequence for Netflix's Tijuana, and has made the Official Selection at Annecy on three other occasions for his commissioned works, Red Room Poetry, TED-Ed: The Science of Stage Fright and Tell Your Story "Steven".
Robertino is currently writing and directing an animated comedy-drama special, Fish Boi, as part of Screen Australia and SBS's Digital Originals initiative.