We are proud to announce the world premiere of the Motion Graphic Novel “The Land of the Magic Flute” at Animaze le MIAFF Montreal international Animation Filmfestival on the 16th of April 2015.




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About MAYA PUIG ERIKSSON
Maya Puig Eriksson was born 1981 in West-Berlin.
After having lived in Mexico City, São Paulo and London she is now back in Berlin, where she works as Creative Producer at the Interactive Media Foundation.
Her background is in Directing and Scriptwriting – she started as one of the co-founders of the self-managed filmschool, filmArche e.V., in Berlin. There she was the head of the directing department from 2001 – 2005 and went on to graduate with a Master in Arts as a Filmmaker from The London Filmschool in 2009. During this time she directed and produced a number of short films and worked as a Production Assistant for Sally Potter at Adventure Pictures in London. She has an IHK degree as Unit Production Manager and took advanced vocational training in Interactive Media at the Internationale Filmschule Köln.
In 2013 she participated to the Audience Design Program of the Torino Film Lab.
About Fons Schiedon
Fons Schiedon(1980, The Netherlands) is a New York based director, designer and artist.
Graduated at the School of Visual Arts Utrecht in 2002, a trained illustrator and self-taught animator, he has directed a wide range of productions, including music videos, commercials and short films. Most of his work involves animation and digital post-production. His experience as a designer and art-director inform his directing work with a strong sense of visual storytelling.
He was the original Character Designer and series Art-Director for the 26 episode animated series The Incredible Adventures of Kika & Bob (Discovery Networks), Head of Animation for the acclaimed documentaryPoor Us: An Animated History of Poverty (BBC/Arte/ZDF, syndicated in over 180 countries) and created and directed the original series MobSquad for MTV Asia and MTV Australia in collaboration with Motorola.
He has made several self-initiated short films, installations and series of paintings that have been exhibited byKunsthal Charlottenburg (Copenhagen), MU (Eindhoven), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Concrete Hermit(London) and Jonathan Levine (New York) amongst others.
His work is internationally recognized and has been featured by publications such as The Guardian, ELEPHANT and Cartoon Brew, by festivals such as Onedotzero, Festival de Cannes, Pictoplasma, Annecy and SIGGRAPH and broadcast internationally by PBS, BBC, ARTE, ZDF and others.
About Philippe Lambert
Born in Montreal, Philippe Lambert is an experimental vocalist and electronic music composer. His recordings have been published on Alien8Recordings, Robosapien Record and Los Discos Enfantasmes. Way to Go is his 3rd interactive project for the National Film Board of Canada, after BLA BLA (2011) and A Journal Of Insomnia (2013). These projects have been presented as interactive installations or musical performances at La Gaîté lyrique (Paris), Mutek (Montréal), IDFA (Amsterdam), Tribeca Film Festival (New York) and DOK Leipzig (Leipzig).
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