Chris Robinson is an Ottawa-based animation, film, literature and sports writer, and artistic director of the Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF). He also wrote the screenplay for the award-winning animated documentary Lipsett Diaries, directed by Theodore Ushev.

As an author, program planner and historian, his contribution to the promotion of independent animated film earned him the 2004 President’s Award given by ASIFA-east, the New York chapter of the International Animated Film Association. His style is lively and direct. He is quick to speak out vigorously on various platforms and is famous for his outbursts and aversion to empty rhetoric. Robinson authors a column entitled The Animation Pimp for Animation World Network and Toon of The Month for the prestigious Sight and Sound magazine
Robinson has also written on music, film, literature and sports for various international publications including Sight and Sound, Salon.com, Stop Smiling, Ottawa Magazine, and the Ottawa Citizen. His monthly literature column, “The Lit Pimp” appeared in the Ottawa Xpress from 2006-2010. Robinson published thirteen books between 2003 and 2011, including Stole This From a Hockey Card (2005), Ballad of a Thin Man: In Search of Ryan Larkin (2008), Love Simple (2009) and Time Out of Mind (2010). He is still working with Theodore Ushev on My Balls are Killing Me , a graphic novel about his experience with cancer.

Director’s word
"My drawings would never compare to the life that nature bears, but I hope my pieces that are drawn with experience, dedication, and sacrifice will bring thoughts to someone who sees it."

Director Ahn’s journey
Director Ahn Jae Hoon is an animation director who started his career as an animator and founded one of the first animation studios which applied systematic production pipeline in South Korea. His studio, Meditation With a Pencil, creates films under the ideal of "drawings that cure, colours that touch one's heart ".
He boasts a wide range of experiences from film to digital process of making animation, and he is also the only director to have directed shorts, TV Series, Commercials, OVA and feature length films.
Many animators who were trained at the Meditation With a Pencil studio are now working in diverse fields in various studios around the world.

Director Ahn hopes that one day any one of them returns to the studio to continue film making in South Korea. However, in the mean time those apprentices are still participating in the studio's projects by working as freelancers, building a structured studio system which is appropriate to the Korean animation industry.

Director Ahn entrusts young animators with talent and energy to produce animations for younger audience, while he himself focuses on making animations that can bring hope to the people from the current generation.

Director Shu-Man Chang, Master of Fine Arts in College of Sound and Image Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts.

Director Chang has dedicated herself to animation production for many years. She specializes in silhouette animation, sand animation, hand-drawn animation and experimental stop motion animation.The animated short films made by backlight silhouette “The Garden,” “Bean Sprout,” and “Who Steal My Poo-poo” are shown in many international film festivals in Greece and The United States.
As a workshop member in ASIFA and AWG as well as an instructor in universities, Director Chang is enthusiastic about the animation education. She introduces the animation with “Monsters Play Animation” series in Artco Kids magazine. In recent years, she has established Anima Animation Group, encouraging children, teenagers and adults to produce animation films. Director Chang continue promoting animation with passion: “Maybe not all people who have experienced animation filmmaking will become an animator, but I believe in this way they’ll all become better audiences and supporters of animation industry.”

WANG Shaudi is a charismatic leader in Taiwan film industry.

She founded Rice Film Co. Ltd. in 1992 and started Taiwan Original Filmmakers Union while making movies, documentaries, theatre plays and television dramas. WANG likes to share great laughs with the audiences. She made a name for herself with screenplays Scarecrow (1987, directed by WANG Tung), Banana Paradise (1989, directed by WANG Tung) and the award-winning film Grandma And Her Ghosts(1999) and Bear Hug (2004).
WANG is often called “Lao-Shi”, meaning teacher, not only to her students at National Chengchi University and the Taipei National University of the Arts. She is called “Lao-Shi” for the love and care she gives to young talents and filmmakers in general.
Her works are rich in imagination, with life-embracing passion and humor. In addition, there’s a Taiwanese aspect in the choices of topics, talents and artistic expression. Her recent movie, Fantôme, Où Es-tu ?, is a lovely ghost story that tries to comfort the bereaved and give hope to the lonely. She also took part in 10+10, a film created by 20 Taiwanese directors in 2011.

Toe Yuen, graduated from Communication Department of the Baptist College in 1991, majoring in Film. He had been the chief editor of comics magazine, script-writer, special effects and computer animator. He directed the TV series of McMug Animation since 1997.

Other animation shorts include "Explanations (1995)" and "Foulball (1996)". "My Life As McDull (2001)" is his debut animation feature, earned Yuen the Best Feature Award in Annecy 2003 International Animation Festival. The sequel, "Mcdull: Prince de la Bun (2004)" received the Best Film Award from the Hong Kong Film Critics Society. In 2008, he made his first live action short film "PaperPapa, The Decade of Love (2008)" since graduation. The latest work is "CJ7: The Cartoon (2010)" ,which is produced by Stephen Chow.