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Paolo Polesello, Germany/Italy

Paolo has studied physics, is now in Berlin working as a patent examiner. In his free
time and holidays, he enjoys visiting architecture and animation festivals.
Currently, he is hooked on to Chitrakatha.
Design Talk on Patenting, Cucinema (Kitchen-Cinema) Workshop, Design Olym-
pic Jury

Lorenzo Lustri, Italy

Lorenzo Lustri is a vanguard performer, filmmaker, experimental musician and artist
from Rome. He is one of founders of Cinema Automatico, Circo 'patafisico di Roma
and Cucinema. He composes music operettas and experimental music for theatre
play. He only speaks Italian.
Cucinema (Kitchen-Cinema) Workshop, Operettas performance, Children’s Work-
shop .

Sara Citerni, Italy

Sara is a Food designer from Tuscany; she leads one of the most important
restaurants of the Tuscan coast, Petronio. Today she experiments with food, based
on renaissance still life oil paintings.
Food workshop, Design Talk, Cucinema Workshop

Gauri Abbatista, Italy

Gauri is a fine artist, a design activist and a traveller. She worked with scenography,
illustration and decorative design. She loves to design decorative lamps, given a
chance.
Lamp Design Workshop, Cucinema Workshop, Design Olympic Jury

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Isabel Herguera, Spain

Isabel Herguera studied Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf, Germany and
Animation at the Cal Arts, US. She was festival director of ANIMAC, Catalonia and
program coordinator Laboratory of Moving Image (LIM) at Arteleku, San Sebastian,
Spain. Currently teaching experimental animation at KHM, Cologne, Germany
Design Talk on Experimental Animation, International Collaborations, Cucinema
(Kitchen-Cinema) Workshop

Gianmarco Serra, Italy

Gianmarco has been in the film business since 1998. He has directed documentaries
for ‘RAI 3’, the Italian public TV channel, that focuses on culture and education. He has
also worked as an independent producer for national and international institutions,
directing several documentaries based on social themes.
Cucinema Workshop, Operettas Performance, Children’s’ Workshop, Design Olym-
pic Jury

Bruno Lelli, Roberta Dominici, Italy

Bruno and Roberta are Italian dressmaker/apparel designer who specialise in the use
of recycled materials to design apparel and accessories.
Design Talk & Circo Rosso (Red Circus) Instant Fashion Show workshop, Design
Olympic Jury

Zilvinas Lilas, Lithuania

Prof. Lilas, teacher from KHM, Cologne, Germany has been consistently engaged with
the phenomenon of new technologies as a universal tool of artistic self-expression. Be-
fore teaching, he was professionally engaged in Hollywood at Walt Disney Studios,
Metrolight Studios, etc.
Design Talk & Pointology-Storytelling workshop, Design Olympic Jury

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Enrica Brumini, Italy

Ernica is a dancer and fitness expert; she studied dance, choreography & fitness at
ISEF De Frienze. She works towards bringing the community together.
Choreography workshop, Instant Fashion Show, Design Olympic Jury

Tania De Leon, Mexico

Tania is a visual artist dedicated to drawing, engraving and experimental animation.
She pursued a PhD in Fine Arts at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.
Design talk on Mexican Visual Art today & Painting with AR brush Workshop, De-
sign Olympic Jury

Thomas Grassmann, Switzerland

Thomas Gassmann has great experience as a sound engineer and Perchmann in
feature and documentary films. He is a lecturer in original sound recording at the SAE
at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences, Design & Art .
Design Talks, Sound Design Workshop, Design Olympic Jury

KHM Master Students

Faidon Gialis, Greece
Jessica Poon, UK
Shuree Sarantuya, Mongolia
Ziting Huang, China
Naama Heiman, Israel
Mayako Kudo, Japan
Nausheen Javed, India
They are a team displaying exhibition of installation art, computer game, projec-
tion mapping, AR & VR narrative & short talk about their work.

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Nigel Hughes, USA

He is an earth scientist, palaeontologist, UCR, PHd from Bristol University. His re-
search areas are paleobiology, trilobite, lower palaeozoic & tectonics studies. He is
avid singer and ukulele player. Currently working on Whale Evolution Story, through
graphic narratives.
Design Talk on Earth Science, Workshop on Walking Whales, Design Olympic Jury

Dr Swagata Ghosh, UK
She is from Bath Spa Univeristy. She is a creative writer who is currently practising
journalism & publishing.
Creative writing workshop, Design Olympic Jury

Doris Cleven, Belgium

Doris Cleven graduated from the ISTI (Institut Superieur de Traducteurs et Interpre-
tes) in Brussels with a degree in English–Russian translation in 1979. She co-founded
Folioscope, the organizing structure of the ANIMA Festival, in 1988, with Philippe
Moins and has been co-director ever since.
Screening & Talk on students animation from RITS, Brussels, Documentary on
Raoul Servais, Puppet Documentary on Imperialism, Design Olympic Jury

Andreas Saxer, Switzerland

He was Born in 1975 in Peru. After completing his apprenticeship as a tailor he grad-
uated in Industrial Design in 2003 from Zurich University. Since March 2010, Andreas
Saxer is a lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences. He is co-initiator and
co-curator of the Design Biennale Zürich (2017) and a member of the board of the
Swiss Design Association since 2015.
Design talk on his work & ID program at HSLU, Design talk on history of Swiss In-
dustrial Design & Design Biennale Zurich , Small Object Design workshop, Design
Olympic Jury

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Estudio El Palmeral
Diego Herguera Acosta
Raquel Gálvez Soto
Candela Carroceda García Bobadilla
Toni Planas Portas
César Augusto García Villafaina
MariCarmen Gálvez Obregón
El Palmeral: Bunch of young architects, artist, photographer, musicians. Study of
architecture, ephemeral art, photography and audio-visual production from Barce-
lona, Spain.

INDIAN GUESTS

Prakash Moorthy
NID Alumni, Animation Film Maker, Educator, Trinvandrum
Prakash is an NID alumni, from Trivandrum. He works as an Animation Film Maker,
production designer and writer.
Design Talk

Prateek Sethi
NID Alumni,Prateek Sethi is a Communication Designer and Founder of TRIP Cre-
ative Services, a multi-award winning visual communication design house. He is the
one who is making learning science fun and much easier for kids. 
Studio presentation, Short Workshop

Rajesh Thakare/Troy Vasanth

Rajesh, founder of Blackbird Studio, Mumbai. Working on various kinds of projects
related to illustration, animation and mix medium.
Studio presentation, Mural Workshop

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Studio Echostream
Sonam Gyaltsen, Ranveer Singh
Echostream is a culturally diverse, multidisciplinary design studio based in Gangtok.
Design Echostream, Gangtok
Studio presentation, Social Design Workshop

Dr Arnab Biswas
Ophthalmologist & Hilsha Expert
Dr Arnab Biswas is a consultant oculoplastic and orbital surgeon at Alo Eye Care,
Kolkata. His love for documentation has resulted in a personal collection of over 50000
photographs of rare & interesting cases. He has come out with a comprehensive and
elaborative "Atlas of Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery"
Presentation

Dr Soumya Chakraborty
Physicist
Design Talk, Short Workshop on Locomotion

Ghost Animation Studio

A collective of animators, artists and filmmakers from all over India based in Kolkata.
Upamanyu and friends will be screening four of their animated shorts.
Studio Presentation & Screening

Mr Krishna
Abhyasa Education Story
Design Talk

Sonali Upadhaya
NID Alumni, Sonali is a freelance illustrator and a comic book artist. She makes music
videos and illustrations for the Indian Navy, showing stories of the unsung, below the
deck sailors.
Design Talk

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Saheb Ram Tudu

Communication designer, poet, illustrator, sculptor, animation film designer, Ram
tudu makes beautiful Santal narratives.
Santhal Narratives, Design Olympic Jury

Latha Tummuru, Designer

NID Alumni; She is currently the Head of Design and marketing of Dastakar Andhra.
As a part of her journey through the colourful and intricate world of textiles, she is
bridging the gap between the millions of craftsmen trying to preserve the rich textile
culture of India, and the ever growing market needs through her artistic skills and
technical expertise.
Dastakar Story, Design Talk

Kurmanadham
Faculty
Kurmanadhan is a fine artist, he is a faculty for foundation programme at NID.
Print workshop

And many more...

Disclaimer : Chitrakatha, NID AP will have the right to change, modify or cancel the festival
schedule without any prior notice incase of any unavoidable circumstances.