6th Blue Danube Film Festival

Camila Kater is a filmmaker, animator and educator from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She recently directed the animated documentary short CARNE (Brazil, Spain, 2019), which was qualified for the 2021 Academy Awards Oscar®, and was on the shortlist for the 2021 Goya Award. CARNE world premiered at Locarno Int'l Film Festival in 2019 and was officially selected for over 250 film festivals including TIFF, Annecy, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, AFI, Palm Springs ShortFest; and has received more than 95 awards worldwide. Kater has a bachelor's degree in Media Studies at Unicamp (Brazil), and in 2012 she was awarded with a one-year scholarship in Film and TV Production at Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK) by the Brazilian government program Science Without Borders. Kater has recently received the 2021/2023 RE:ANIMA Animation Scholarship for the European Joint Master in Animation (a new Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in the area of Animation and the Creative Arts) and she is now living and studying her Masters in the three host countries, Belgium, Portugal and Finland. Kater created and is Co-Director for LESMA, a weeklong animation event in Campinas, Brazil, since 2016. For each edition, LESMA exhibited work curated by a different international animation film festival.

Noemie Nakai is a French and Japanese writer/director. Her latest short film 'Tears Teacher' premiered at Sundance, was acquired by the New York Times and went on to play at 40+ festivals worldwide. Her projects in development were selected for the Sundance x NHK screenwriting lab, Focus Asia, Talents Tokyo amongst others, as well as receiving the main award at Busan film festival's Asian Project Market. She is a member of the BAFTA connect program for emerging filmmakers.