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Martin Smatana is a graduate of Animation at FAMU Film School in Prague, Czech Republic. His debut movie Rosso Papavero (2015) had premiere at Berlinale 2015, was screened at more than 200 film festivals and received 15 international awards. The graduated movie The Kite had its premiere at Berlinale 2019. The Kite was selected to the semifinals of Student Oscar Academy Awards and was included in the Film Collection of MoMA (Museum of Modern Art in New York). The Kite was released in cinemas of several European countries. So far the film was screened at more than 150 festivals and won 65 international awards, including Best Children Film at the Annecy festival and Best short film for children at Stuttgart Film Festival.

Veronika Zacharová is currently a graphic artist, illustrator and animator. She studied graphic design at Uherské Hradiště and Brno, from which she moved to Animation department at the Tomas Bata University in Zlín. There she made most of her short animated films, some of which won festival awards. After school she started to work for Prague based animation studio Krutart, where she collaborated as illustrator, animator and director on several award winning projects, such as stop motion commercial It Has Matcha! (2018). She is an author of visual identity and jingle of Anifilm Animation Festival 2019 and also participated in the first annual Symposium of illustration in Broumov. In her own work, Veronika is mostly focused on children.