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 Suzanne
Buchan
(Co-director, Fantoche Animation Festival)
Suzanne Buchan teaches and works at the Department of Cinema Studies at
the University of Zurich, Switzerland. She a founding member of FANTOCHE
International Animation Film Festival in Baden, Switzerland. She has taught
animation history, theory and aesthetics at a number of universities and
film schools and has curated various animation programmes. Beyond a passion
for animation film her fields of teaching and research include experimental
film, special effects, science fiction and James Joyce. She is currently
writing a dissertation on the Brothers Quay.
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 Eric
Darnell
(Animator, USA)
Eric Darnell grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas. He holds a degree in
Broadcast Journalism from the University of Colorado and an MFA in Experimental
Animation from the California Institute of the Arts. Until 1991,
Darnell worked as a freelance animator and directed the animated music
video, Get Up for R.E.M. In 1991, Darnell joined the Character Animation
Group of Pacific Data Images (PDI). His skills in animation, visual
effects and art direction led to numerous commercials and film projects
including the acclaimed short film, Gas Planet, which received a Special
Jury Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. Gas Planet
will also be presented as part of the Jean-Luc Xiberras memorial, "Highlights
of the Annecy Animation Festival" in May 1999. In 1995, Darnell left
PDI to join DreamWorks and assisted with the early development of computer
animation approaches for the feature film, Prince of Egypt. He returned
to PDI in 1996 as director for Antz, the first computer animated feature
film co-produced by DreamWorks and PDI. He currently working on a number
of secret projects which we are not allowed to reveal.
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 Peter
Dougherty
(Creative Director, MTV Europe)
As Creative Director, Peter Dougherty oversees all the MTV Creative and
On-Air departments., plus the Licensing, Merchandising and regional Marketing
teams across Europe. He encourages and advises channels to create concepts
which are unique to their own markets, whilst still retaining the strength
of the universally recognized MTV logo. This requires an in-depth understanding
and recognition of what works' in the minds of young people all over
Europe-- what is cool for a German teenager, but dated to an Italian,
and working with programme makers to create idents and an image that the
MTV audience are intrigued by. Dougherty encourages the Creative teams
in MTV's Europe-wide regional offices to come up with fresh ideas and
assists them in their implementation. These creative strategies ensure
that MTV remains at the forefront of innovation, and in turn, maintains
MTV's reputation as a cutting edge channel. He also works with MTV's sister
channels, VH-1 and M2 to create branding unique to their channels.
Dougherty's work is admired within the creative industry, with his winning
numerous prestigious awards, most recently he won a Gold' UK Promax for
Best Service Announcement' with The Shirt. His recognition of inspiring
graphics has led to his being invited to judge at famous animation events
worldwide, such as the Zagreb, Holland and Ottawa Festivals. He has also
earned twenty-five gold awards at the Broadcast Designers Association
Awards as well as a number of accolades at the CLIO awards.
Dougherty joined MTV Europe as Creative Director in 1990. He previously
worked for MTV Networks in the US. He holds a BA in Political Science
from Ithaca College, New York.
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 George
Griffin
(Independent Animator, USA)
George Griffin grew up in Tennesssee, and studied political science at
Dartmouth, before arriving in New York City in the late 60's. There, his
interests in drawing and photography fused into an obsession with animation,
first as an apprentice on cartoons (working for Hubley and Bakshi) then
as an experimenter in a wide range of techniques. At first his work dealt
with self-reference and process art using flipbooks and photocopies ("Head",
"Lineage", and other "anti-cartoons"). More recently
his films have investigated narrative and musical organization ("Ko-Ko",
"A Little Routine"). He has taught at Harvard and NYU, and continues
to produce spots at his studio, Metropolis Graphics. "Griffiti"
is a 90 minute selection of his independent animation.
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 Marcy
Page
(Producer, National Film Board of Canada)
Marcy Page, Producer, National Film Board of Canada (Canada) Born and
raised in northern California, Marcy Page has pursued an interest in animation
for the last twenty-five years. She freelanced in a number of San Francisco
Bay Area animation studios including Colossal Pictures, U.S.F.X., Lucasfilm,
and Mill Valley Animation where she animated on rock videos, feature film
sequences, commercials, short films, station IDs and logo vignettes, and
television series work, to support her animation "art" habit. She also
taught animation courses at San Francisco State University and California
College of Arts and Crafts and independently produced animation for documentaries
and her own personal animation work. Her independent film Paradisia garnered
fifteen festival awards internationally. In addition, Page animated the
Prince video, Raspberry Beret, and served as an assistant animator on
the Emmy Award winning, A Doonesbury Special (John and Faith Hubley).
An emigrant to Canada, she began working at the National Film Board in
1990 as an animation director. She subsequently became a producer for
the NFB in animation with dozens of film completed or in production. Page's
recent production credits include Snow Cat (Cordell Barker), Frank The
Wrabbit (John Weldon) How Wings were Attached to the Backs of Angels (Craig
Welsh), and The End of the World in Four Seasons (Paul Driessen).
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