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Best Student Film

Comfort Arthur is a British-born Ghanaian award-winning animator, illustrator and visual artist. She trained at the Royal College of Arts before moving to Ghana to set up The Comfy Studio.  Her short film Black Barbie has been an international hit and has screened in more than 100 film festivals across the world and has won several awards. In 2020 she released her first children’s picture book under the same name.  

She is the first Ghanaian animator to win the African Academy Movie awards for best animation for her web series I’m Living in Ghana Get Me Out of Here.  

Comfort Arthur has also worked as the Episodic director for Cbeebies Animated preschool show JoJo and Gran Gran in the United Kingdom. 

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Best UK Film

Izzy is an award-winning Director and Artist. She has worked for studios such as Netflix Animation, Aardman, Cartoon Network and Golden Wolf - to name just a few. In 2018 after the release of her award-winning short film “Via”, Izzy was named one of Animation Magazine’s “Rising Stars of Animation”. Izzy thrives on projects where her role exists at the point where story and art overlap, helping to develop projects to their full potential, and has recently been developing the pitch for her own feature animated film idea with Troublemakers studio in Paris.

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Best International Film

Dominic Minns is is Brighton Zoo's BAFTA winning Co-Founder and Creative Director. He works in children’s television and is currently directing the first season of Mojo Swaptops after finishing the first two seasons of Supertato, both for CBeebies. Dom also created Tee and Mo, which quickly became an international success across multiple platforms, including short form for Youtube, apps, animated music videos, an album and 2 series on CBeebies.

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