Framed Short Film Competition

Cristina Formenti is a lecturer and researcher in Film Studies at the University of Groningen. Her main research areas are animation, documentary and, more recently, ecocinema. Among others, she is author of the monographs Il mockumentary: la fiction si maschera da documentario (Mimesis 2013) and The Classical Animated Documentary and Its Contemporary Evolution (Bloomsbury 2022). She is currently president of the Society for Animation Studies and chair of the board of directors of Visible Evidence, the leading international association for documentary studies. She is also co-editor of the journal Animation Studies and of the book series Animation: Key films/filmmakers published by Bloomsbury.

Hisko Hulsing; Hisko is an animator, painter and storyboard illustrator. He animated large parts of Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, directed the animated series Undone for Amazon Prime, the episode “A Dream of A Thousand Cats” of the Netflix series The Sandman and the film Junkyard. Hulsing received numerous awards, including the grand prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival and prizes at the Holland Animation Festival, the Shanghai TV Festival, the Stuttgart Festival of Animated Films and the Woodstock Film Festival.

Lola Vos: graduated from the RUG with a Master's degree in Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media. She can be found at the cinema every week watching horrors and romcoms, but certainly doesn't skip cool animations. Among other things, she has worked on the programme team of a short film festival for short films, so these have a special place in her heart.

Nefeli Theocharidou: is a film researcher and programmer, with roots in Cyprus. She graduated from the RUG with a Masters in Film and Contemporary Audiovisual Media and researches cinema through the lens of memory, materiality and experimental forms.