2022 – Zach Dorn

Zach Dorn is a filmmaker and performing artist who creates miniature melodramas that explore the underbelly of childhood nostalgia through the disappointed eyeballs of adulthood. His first stop-motion film, Charlotte, premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. His most recent short, Moomin, is screening at Slamdance, 2023. His multimedia puppet performances have premiered at Ars Nova, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and REDCAT.

2022 – Brian Hawkins

Brian Hawkins (b. 1987 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the subjective, fragmentary nature of our personal and cultural narratives. He has produced a series of intricate, cut-paper animations which draw inspiration from the music, folklore, and history of his native state. His most recent body of work, concerned with Missouri’s French Creole community, has received the support from ArtsKC, the Center for Independent Documentary, the Charlotte Street Foundation, GLAS, the Puffin Foundation, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. His work has screened at numerous festivals including the Annecy International Animation Festival.

2022 – Anna Firth

Anna Firth, from and living in Northern California, belongs to the new generation of experimental character animators who throw impromptu animator picnics and hand out crusty old peg bars to anyone who mentions wanting to start animate. She is half of the bay area animation project Soft Screen and the whole of her studio practice involving short videos and illustrations. Onscreen, her anthropomorphic characters dance expressionlessly. Stiff backgrounds and abrasive soundtracks summon unrelenting dog people or people dogs or dog people.

2022 – Seung-eon Yi

Seung-eon Yi is a film maker working with animation collaged media, based in Seoul and Chicago. She mainly describes in poetic form, the emotions and memories that she is deeply involved in, from the personal to the observational.

She is interested in creating small ordinary stories of our daily moments, discovering tiny hidden values that might be overlooked, and delivering those values through her animations in diverse methodologies. By vividly visualizing subtle yet glimmering values she spots in our regular days, her animated films lead to a poetic contemplation and allow us to reconnect with the deeper emotions on which our relations actually depend.

2021 – Wei Keong Tan

WEI KEONG TAN is an animation filmmaker. His films explore his gay identity through personal storytelling and fantasy worlds. His most recent film, Kingdom, has been selected to compete at the Berlin International Film Festival 2019 and was also the opening short film at Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) 2018. His previous film, Between Us Two, received the Best Singapore Short Film award at SGIFF 2017 and the Grand Jury Prize Documentary Short at Outfest Los Angeles 2018. His films have been selected at many film festivals, including those at Annecy, Zagreb, Stuttgart and GLAS.

2021 – Kevin Eskew

KEVIN ESKEW is an animator based in Los Angeles. He received his MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts. His short films have screened internationally at festivals including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Slamdance, Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, and the New Chitose International Animation Festival, where he won the New Talent Award in 2019.

2021 – Chaerin Im

CHAERIN IM (born 1994 in Seoul) is an experimental filmmaker from South Korea with a focus on animation, living and working in Los Angeles / Ann Arbor. With the use of craftsmanship and distinctive materials, she explores gender issues and sexual imagery. She graduated from Seoul National University’s Visual Communication Design BFA program (2017) and earned an MFA degree from the CalArts Experimental Animation program (2020). Her films have competed in widely-known festivals such as Annecy, Ann Arbor, Animafest Zagreb, DOK Leipzig, Ottawa, Vienna Shorts, Ars Electronica, Slamdance, and GLAS. She is currently working on her new short film I am a Horse at Open Workshop.

2020 – Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma

Pilar Garcia-Fernandezsesma is a freelance animator and fine artist who currently resides in New York. She is an alum of the Laguardia High School of the Arts in New York and received her BFA in Animation at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2020. While you could describe her as being a very talkative person, she has always found it easier to express her emotions and feelings through visual mediums rather than words, making her work take on a very intimate and emotional quality overall. She enjoys making both 2D animation and stopmotion films, and often uses elements of mixed media in her films by combining traditional and digital elements through compositing. Her work as a whole ranges from fiction and fantastical to poetic and metaphorical, and often deals with memory and human interaction paired with themes of womanhood, family, and our relationship to the natural world.

2020 – Maria Constanza Ferreira

Maria Constanza Ferreira (b. 1994 Caracas, Venezuela) is an interdisciplinary artist creating artwork across a range of media including video, photography, and interactive installation. Ferreira’s practice consists of a series of experiments exploring a profound fascination with materials science, natural structures, and light optics. In March of 2019, Ferreira began an ongoing Artist Residency at the Kahr Research Group within New York University’s department of Chemistry to continue her work with chemical crystallography. Her work has showcased internationally at places such as Times Square’s Midnight Moment, IndieLisboa Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Exploratorium: The Museum of Science, Art and Human Perception, SFO Museum, GLAS Animation Film Festival, and NYU Abu Dhabi’s Art Gallery. Two of her videos have been nominated for Vimeo’s Best of the Year Awards in 2018 and 2019. Ferreira earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design as a double major in Film/ Animation/Video and Graphic Design.

2019 – Amanda Bonaiuto

Amanda Bonaiuto is a freelance animation director, artist, and educator currently splitting her time between Los Angeles and New York. She is best known for her short films and commissioned pieces which have screened at film festivals and galleries worldwide. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2012 and an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 2018. She is currently a visiting professor at Pratt Institute and makes films and commissions in her studio.

2019 – David Delafuente

David Delafuente is an interdisciplinary animation artist with interests in the moving image, aesthetic theory, semiotics, and graphic design. His work has explored themes of loss, queerness, and romanticism. His films have been shown at festivals and screenings around the world. Currently, David is based in New York where he continues to play with the relationship between the digital image and its consumer.

2018 – Jeron Braxton

JERON BRAXTON Jeron Braxton is a young self taught award winning animator making waves world wide. His work reflects life thru a black American lens using surreal 90’s video game aesthetics. GLAS is pleased to support his forthcoming short film titled Oxytocin.

2018 – Bronwyn Maloney

Bronwyn Maloney is an artist and animator from New York. Her filmmaking practice is rooted in fine art and design for performance, highlighting sensual motion and graphic color and lighting. She works in hand drawn digital animation, and stop motion replacement animation, exploring abstracted narratives in a 2-dimensional space. She is a recent MFA graduate from Experimental Animation at CalArts, and is based in Los Angeles, CA. GLAS is pleased to support her forthcoming short film titled Re:Shannon.