Shelley Page - President

Head of International Outreach - DreamWorks Animation - United Kingdom

Shelley has been working in the field of feature animation since 1986.
Her career in animation began in London with the legendary animation director Richard Williams from 1982. She served as head of backgrounds on the Walt Disney film Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. In 1989 she was hired by Steven Spielberg as one of the original team of artists at the Amblimation Studio in London. Then she moved to Los Angeles as one of the first team of artists to join Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen's new studio, DreamWorks Animation.

Her current projects include building relationships with animation schools and festivals worldwide and sourcing new talent for future projects.
Shelley's film credits include: The Prince Of Egypt, Shrek (1, 2, 3), Madagascar (1, 2), Bee Movie, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs Aliens ...
Current DreamWorks projects for 2010: How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After and Oobermind.

Since 2006 Shelley has become closely involved with the animation community in India and with several of the leading academic institutions and festivals.

Andreas Hykade

Animation Director - Studio Film Bilder - Germany

Andreas Hykade was born in the Summer of Love in Altötting, center of the Holy Mary cult. Since he´s been a grown-up, he´s created animated films for grown-ups, including "We Lived in Grass" (1995), "Ring of Fire" (2000) and "The Runt" (2005).

Now he´s a father, he creates animated films for children as well, including "Tom & the slice of bread with strawberryjam & honey" (2000- 2009).

Since 2003, Andreas is a Member of the Art Directors Club in Germany.

Since 2005, he is a Professor of Animation at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.

Josselin Mahot

Director - France

Josselin Mahot is born in 1972 in Paris. Having always been attracted in cinema and more particularly in special effects, in 1990, he leaves for Los Angeles where he collaborate on numerous films such as Demolition Man, Seven, Jumanji, Impossible Mission or Starship Trooper.

These various experiences allow him to acquire a solid knowledge about  special effects (make-up artist/prosthetics) and in 1997, he becomes member of the Visual Effects Society (VES) located in Los Angeles.

In 1998, he becomes interested in digital special effects and decides to leave to New York, where he becomes artistic director on numerous advertising films.
In 2001, he directed his first short entitled "Glee".

Since 2003, Josselin Mahot lives in Paris and now directs music videos and advertisments for agencies such as BETC, TBWA, Ogilvy ... or Virgin, Labels ...
In parallel, he works on personal projects of which a feature-length film.