Framed Shorts Competition

Daan Lucas is a 2D animator and illustrator working in Utrecht. He is part of ‘De Hoogwerkers’, a collective of 9 young illustrators and animators. Daan creates colorful and detailed worlds in which childlike playfulness goes hand in hand with mature themes. His characters and compositions are designed to stimulate and invite discovery. For Daan, every project is an opportunity to offer visual pleasure while simultaneously revealing something new and unexpected, through humor, creativity, and an eye for detail.

Floortje Smit (1979) is a film journalist, interviewer, and presenter. Since 2006, she has been affiliated with de Volkskrant as a journalist, where she writes reviews, interviews, reports, analyses, and columns in the field of film and visual culture. She studied history and journalism at the University of Groningen and worked for, among others, the Groninger Dagblad, RVU, VPRO, and HUMAN, primarily in the field of art and culture. She was also deputy director of the Amsterdam film theater Het Ketelhuis.

Cristina Formenti is a lecturer and researcher in Film Studies at the University of Groningen and chair of the Society for Animation Studies. As an animation expert, she closely follows the latest developments.