Jury President This year, the jury presidency has been untrusted to Christian Desmares. Graduated from the French animation school Gobelins (Paris) in 1998, Christian Desmares starts working on animation on different formats such as advertising, unitary films, TV series (Oggy and the Cockroaches, Space Goots, Lascars, L’île à Lili…) ) in different positions, layout posing, character designer or animator. As from 2001, he starts participating in several long features including Corto Maltese, Lascars – Pas de vacances pour les vrais gars, Le Jours des Corneilles… After animating the characters of Marjane Satrapis’s Persepolis (2007), Christian Desmares takes on the great challenge to interpret the world of French comic’s artist Tardi for his first feature April and The Twisted World (2015), codirected with Franck Ekinci that wins the Cristal for Feature Film the same year at Annecy Festival and a nomination to the French César the following year. He is currently working on Lastman, directed by Jérémie Périn, an ambitious project that promises to refashion the world of animated TV series for adults! JURY 2016 The members of jury: Marc Aguesse Webdesigner, Director, TV journalist Catsuka Chris Delaporte Director Delphine Maury Founder, Writing Director & Producer Tant mieux Prod Sophie Penziki Production Manager Ubisoft Régis Vidal Co-founder, Director & Artistic Director Studio Caribara Birdy Director Studio ELMØ Xavier Boldtron Cardona Artistic Director & 3D Artist Auteur de l’affiche Panam Anim 2016 Manu Foissotte Director Studio 2Factory The award The jury presided by Christian Desmares will reward the best films on the National and International competitions and the best short and best video game issued from the Antimation Jam. The Motion Design Jury will reward the 2 best films of the Motion Design competition. COMPETITION • JURY AWARD • BEST ANIMATION • BEST ARTISTIC DIRECTION • SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY Festivalgoers are invited to vote at the end of each screenings to grant the AUDIENCE AWARD to the films in competition. SELECTION OF MOTION DESIGN • JURY AWARD • BEST ARTISTIC DIRECTION ANIMATION JAM • BEST SHORT FILM • BEST VIDEO GAME