Manuel is a full professor and the head of the film and media art department at Lusófona University.

He obtained his tenure in 2011 from Minho University in Portugal and holds a PhD in media studies from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

He has worked as a trainer, consultant and producer in the audiovisual industry at a European and international level for more than twenty years and has a strong past experience as head researcher and project manager in several national and European research and development projects.

Sandra studied Communication Sciences and Audiovisual and is currently responsible for the Cooperation Projects Office for the Film and Media Arts Department at Lusófona University.

For the past years she has been managing all cooperation actions between partners, both from academia and industry, namely several cooperation projects under Media Programme Training and Erasmus Plus. She is the consortium coordinator for RE.Anima and Kino Eyes Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree and local manager for Docnomads Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree.

Paulo holds a PhD in Film Studies and a MA in Video Art both by Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an Associate Professor and the Head of the MA in Animation Arts and the Graduation Course in Digital Animation both at Lusófona University.

He is a member of the R&D research unit CICANT – Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies. He is also jury in Portuguese Film Institute (ICA) for animation public competitions for financial support.

Geert Van Goethem is producer and director, specialized in animation films. He teaches Production, Production Management and Project Development at the Brussels based Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS), and Film Analysis at LUCA School of Arts Campus C-Mine in Genk (B). In 1987 he was co-founder of the Brussels based multidisciplinary production center for the arts S.O.I.L. (Sight Of an Ignored Landscape), where he still is artistic director. Over the years this organization became a leading independent production center for the arts in Belgium. Many of its productions were internationally awarded. With its animation studio ArtDog, S.O.I.L. executed the Belgian part of Oscar nominated animation feature Les Triplettes De Belleville. The short animation film BZZ was nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and for the Cartoon d’Or.

In 2005 Geert was nominated for the prestigious Flanders Culture Award. He was member of the General Assembly of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), and the General Assembly of the Institute for Visual and Audiovisual Arts (BAM) in Brussels. He also was member of the jury at several international film festivals.

Steven (Ph.D) is a researcher and artist in digital media, music and game design. He is the head of the Play&Game research group at LUCA School of Arts, and he is an Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp. He teaches Research in Art and Design, Web Design, Game Design and (Digital) Media Theory. He has published in international high-ranked journals such as New Media and Society, Computers in Human Behavior, Poetics, and Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networks, on topics such as videogame culture, media realism, crossmedia storytelling, and digital media culture. He has developed a strong international teaching experience, as a guest lecturer at the University of North Dakota, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Tampere University and Aalto University, and as speaker at several international festivals and conferences, including South-By-Southwest. He is the co-editor of two international books on media culture: Moral Issues in Digital Game Play (ACCO, 2012) and The Borders of Subculture (Routledge, 2015). His art, which mainly focuses on music and music video production can be found at www.slowbear.be