2025 Youth Animation Documentary International Nominations Council

Zoe Sua Cho is a Korean New Zealanader filmmaker and co-founder of transnational film collective Mass Ornament Films. Her producing and editing credits include award winning South Korean feature House of Hummingbird, feature documentary Drifting Towards the Crescent, and They, an official selection at Cannes Film Festival. She has worked on numerous productions including Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, and is currently producing Between Goodbyes, a US/South Korean feature documentary for release in 2024. As a director, her film experiment Hotel/Transit was nominated for the Critics’ Award at Black Movie Geneve International Film Festival in 2015. In 2021, she produced Gina Kim’s VR film Tearless which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and won the best VR Film Award at Geneva International Film Festival. Zoe is a fellow of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, Berlinale Talents, and a BAFTA Newcomer.

Associate Professor Dr Andi Spark led the Animation program at Griffith University’s Film School for over ten years, after a twenty year career in the industry (including Walt Disney Television Animation and Disneytoon, Viskatoons, Mediaworld, and the Australian Children’s’ Television Foundation) as an animation artist then director and producer for short films, music videos, children’s’ television series, TVC’s and independent features. She has since been supervising producer for more than 200 student films, which have screened and won awards in major festivals around the world including Cannes and Annecy. She has been instrumental in fostering the professional careers of over 500 creative artists across Australia and internationally through stints as Artist in Residence and Adjunct Professorships, along with mentoring dozens of postgraduate masters and doctoral candidates. Other recent works include producing a 40-minute 5-part animated educational series (2013), animated production ‘sets’ for Opera Queensland’s 2014 “La Boheme” production, a solo international exhibition focused on using humour to foster understanding of serious womens’ health issues and investigating contemporary approaches to sequential narrative delivered via mobile platform devices (Philadelphia, USA 2014), and site-specific projection animation on and through buildings (Zagreb, Croatia 2014, USA 2013 & 2015, Brisbane 2016) Andi has recently returned to industry, working with the producing team at Emmy-award winning Ludo Studio, managing a 52 episode children’s series (“Bluey”) for Studio Joho. Along with this, she continues to develop creative animation-based projects working variously as artist, director and producer.