Andy Wyatt

For over 30 years, Andy has worked in the UK and Ireland as animator, writer, director, producer and educator. Starting his career as assistant to the late John Halas where he learned his craft as animator he went on to work with studios such as Disney, Aardman, Brown Bag and Honeycomb Animation, where he created the cult series Beastly Behaviour. Many of the productions Andy has directed have received awards including three BAFTA nominations.

In addition to his commercial animation experience, Andy has worked in Higher Education setting up the Animation Programmes at Falmouth and Manchester Schools of Art.

Andy is currently a channel partner for Toon Boom Animation in UK/Ireland.

Denis Do

Denis Do was born in 1985. He grew up and studied in Paris. Graduated from Gobelins, l’école de l’image in 2009, his graduation movie “The Ribbon”, co-directed with other classmates, confirmed his desire to make films. He has directed “Funan”, his first feature film, awarded by the Crystal of best feature film in 2018 at The Annecy Animation Festival. His work is influenced and inspired by his three cultures, chinese, khmer and french. Deeply attached with themes such as identities and memories, he is also involved in questioning the representations of minorities through animation. Denis is working on the post-production of his next film “The Forest of Miss Tang”, 40mins length. And also on the development of his next feature “Sorya”.

Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon is a multi award-winning composer who runs the music production company Score Draw Music, which provides original music and songs to a huge range of global clients across children’s media. Current work spans content for Nickelodeon Jr, PBS Kids, Disney Jr, Amazon, Netflix, BBC, Channel 5, Milkshake and Sky. Outside of the company, Mark is a member of the Ivors Academy Media Committee Board, sits on the Screen Composers Guild of Ireland board, and also programmes Output Belfast - Ireland’s largest music conference.

Mike Buckland

Director of Production

Mike Buckland is the Director of Production at Triggerfish Animation. He’s produced award-winning film and television titles including the animated feature films Adventures in Zambezia, Khumba and Seal Team (Netflix).

Mike co-produced the Oscar-nominated Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, as well as several Emmy and BAFTAwinning TV specials produced for the BBC by Magic Light Pictures, including Stick Man, The Highway Rat, Zog and The Snail and the Whale.

Current projects include Aau’s Song, a short film for Lucasfilm’s Star Wars Visions Season 2 on Disney+; Mama K’s Team 4 for Netflix and Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, an anthology of African sci-fi short films. All are scheduled for release this year.

Borja Espana Guillot

Art Director / Development Creative

Borja has been the Art Director and Development Creative with JAM Media for over 13 years and is responsible for overseeing many aspects of the creative process: from pre-production conceptual ideas to productionready final designs. He studied Fine Arts in Valencia, Athens and Australia, and worked on the feature El Cid, before moving to Ireland in 2004. Borja initially began working with JAM Media as an animator on the children’s series PICME before settling into his current senior role. In 2011, Borja worked closely with the award-winning children’s book artist, Polly Dunbar, to adapt her book series, Tilly and Friends, into an animation series commissioned by CBeebies.