Swimming With Wings

Daphna Awadish is a filmmaker and illustrator living in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She specializes in creating animated documentaries and works as an independent illustrator and animator. Her last two short films ‘Journey Birds’ and ‘Bear with Me’ were screened at many international festivals and won awards such as the Best Animation Award- at the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Fantastic Award at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, and the EU Values Award in Animasyros Festival. Having lived in different countries herself, Daphna explores the meaning of ‘home’ in her work and finished a new animated documentary Swimming With Wings, a co-production between the Netherlands and Israel. She uses mixed media to portray personal narratives in a unique and intimate manner. Daphna graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (BA) and from AKV St. Joost Master Institute of Visual Cultures (MA). She was a lecturer in the animation department of Willem De Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.