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Antanas Skučas is a film director, data artist, and lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 2005, he has been working in animation. His debut animation short, “Childhood Diary” (2009), was awarded the Lithuanian “Silver Crane Award”. In 2015, he established the film production company, Tylus kinas. He also works with new media such as XR, VR, AR, and AI.

Gintarė Valevičiūtė-Brazauskienė is a creator of interdisciplinary art. She is actively involved in creating, organising, and curating various art projects and exhibitions and teaching creativity master classes. Having completed her postgraduate studies in Art at the Vilnius Academy of the Arts (VAA), she currently teaches in the Academy’s Department of Photography, Animation, and Media Arts. She is an active participant in its promotion of the potential uses of animation in expanded fields, and exhibits her work at art shows and film festivals.

Gintarė’s films and video projects have won awards at international film and media arts festivals. Her film “Maskaradas” (Masquerade) was named the best Lithuanian film at the animation festival, Next Festival. Her documentary film, “Dievas Sukūrė Viską Išskyrus Kilimą” (God Created Everything but the Carpet) was awarded the “Silver Crane” by the Lithuanian Motion Picture Academy for best short documentary films. Furthermore, her curated Art Fair at ArtVilnius’19, “Titanikas”, in the VAA Exhibition Halls, was named one of “ArtVilnius’19 best seven galleries”, “Most Visited Gallery”, and she was awarded the distinction of “Best ArtVilnius’19 Young Artist”.