Mod­er­a­tors & Chairpersons

Nuria González Blan­co is a writer, direc­tor and Acad­e­my Awards nom­i­nee pro­duc­er with over thir­teen years of expe­ri­ence in the ani­ma­tion indus­try. She stud­ied ani­ma­tion at Edin­burgh Col­lege of Art where she received a BAF­TA New Tal­ent nom­i­na­tion for her grad­u­a­tion film ​“Domingueros”. Since then, Nuria has worked across a vari­ety of roles in chil­dren’s tele­vi­sion, adver­tis­ing and film. Past projects include the award-win­ning short ​“Vio­let”; the Inter­na­tion­al Emmy Kids Award nom­i­nee ​“Puf­fin Rock”; the Gold­en Globe and Oscar-nom­i­nat­ed fea­ture ​“The Bread­win­ner”; the IFTA win­ner and Oscar-nom­i­nat­ed short ​“Late After­noon”; and the new pre-school TV series ​“Sil­ly Sun­days”, a project she cre­at­ed and directed.

After study­ing film direc­tion in the UK, Milo branched out to the amaz­ing world of ani­ma­tion, gain­ing expe­ri­ence across writ­ing, pro­duc­tion and recruit­ment. Milo has writ­ten comics for Dis­ney, pub­lished a graph­ic nov­el through Pub­lish­er Bries, and as a writer and sto­ry advi­sor has col­lab­o­rat­ed with var­i­ous com­pa­nies, schools and film­mak­ers on shorts, comics and series. Along­side writ­ing he recruits artists for Sub­ma­rine Ani­ma­tion, work­ing on projects like ​“Fox & Hare” and ​“Where’s Anne Frank?”.

Christophe launched and head­ed few kids chan­nels in Europe for CANAL+, CLT, Dis­ney & Nick­elodeon. He con­sult­ed for EBU, Ubisoft, Mage­lis a.o. and curates (CAR­TOON, APDs & Ven­tana Sur). He writes kids books, TV series (“Ella, Oscar & Hoo”) and movies and co-found­ed Godo Films (“Team Nuggets”, ​“Fleak” & ​“Alpha Two’s Dream Journey”).

Work­ing as an inde­pen­dent cre­ative devel­op­ment pro­duc­er, con­sul­tant, recruiter, men­tor, ​“match­mak­er”, Réka is orig­i­nal­ly Hun­gar­i­an, liv­ing in Ger­many. She has 30+ years inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ence in 2D-3D Ani­ma­tion, start­ed on the cre­ative side (ink& paint, colour­ing super­vi­sor, com­pos­i­tor, tech­ni­cal direc­tor, flash ani­ma­tor), short­ly switched to dif­fer­ent producer/​management roles, also in VFX and game indus­try. She is an Eval­u­a­tion Expert for EACEA Video Games. 

She has a huge inter­na­tion­al net­work, par­tic­u­lar­ly extend­ed in Hun­gary, CEE coun­tries & Ger­many. As match­mak­er she is help­ing companies/​artists find­ing the best match­ing coop­er­at­ing part­ners, poten­tial clients. As cre­ative Recruiter, she does team build­ing, tal­ent acqui­si­tion, helps young tal­ents internationally.

Con­sul­tant and reporter for lead­ing indus­try media, includ­ing Screen Inter­na­tion­al and Latam­Cin­e­ma (present), and pre­vi­ous­ly Vari­ety. For over a decade, he has con­tributed to Vari­ety’s annu­al tal­ent selec­tions in ani­ma­tion and live action at the Cannes Film Fes­ti­val, among oth­er events.
He has served on var­i­ous insti­tu­tion­al boards for film fund­ing, includ­ing Iber­me­dia, Spain’s ICAA, Valencia’s IVC and Catalonia’s ICEC. For­mer­ly an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at Catalonia’s Open Uni­ver­si­ty (UOC), he taught cours­es on project devel­op­ment and pitch­ing tech­niques for the Master’s pro­gram in Fan­tas­tic Cinema.