2025 Youth Animation Documentary International Nominations Council

Zoe Sua Cho is a Korean New Zealander filmmaker and producer renowned for her work on award-winning films. She produced and edited Drifting Towards the Crescent, which premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, and They, an official selection at the Cannes Film Festival. Zoe also edited and produced House of Hummingbird, which won the Grand Prix Award at Berlinale’s Generation section and the Best International Feature Award at Tribeca Film Festival. Additionally, she produced Gina Kim’s VR series Tearless and Comfortless, both of which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. Her most recent producing work, Between Goodbyes, was awarded the Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and was acquired by PBS’s POV series.

Zoe’s credits also include contributions to Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog and managing production at Little Monster Films, the Academy Award-winning company founded by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. She is a fellow of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program 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.