Director-writer-storyboard artist Marlyn Spaaij is amongst the key creative professionals in the Dutch animation industry. She was storyboard supervisor on American Girl's 2D series Wellie Wishers (2017) and storyboard artist on the 3D series of Chinese kids brand Dr. Panda (2018), as well as character animator on the 2D feature films Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) and Triple Trouble (2014), a.o. Currently Spaaij is directing her animated short Trouble in Mind (10'), with support of the Dutch Film Fund and ARTE Germany's Nadja Dumouchel as script consultant. Spaaij is a graduate from the HKU.
> A key figure in the animation industry, Amsterdam-based Tünde Vollenbroek lives and breathes character-driven narratives. For the last 10 years she's been active in the field, currently as producer and co-owner of animation house Studio Pupil. Vollenbroek is also a curator at the Kaboom Animation Festival, former correspondent at the world's top animation resource Cartoon Brew, and a two-time recipient of the Business Award at the Animation Production Day. She studied at the HKU Utrecht School of the Arts (2008-2012) and Animation Sans Frontières (2012-2013).