StopTrik Workshot: Špela Čadež

Špela Čadež - the most acclaimed Slovene animation director, empowering figure of women’s art-house cinema, and a member of the Academy Awards, but perhaps above all an amazing humanist who looks at the surrounding reality with curiosity, criticism and touching sensitivity. StopTrik 2020 is honoured to welcome Špela Čadež as the mentor of a professional stop motion workshop and the guest of an in-depth Q&A session “Imaging the Author”.

Špela Čadež will present her work as a director, animator, and producer. Through examples of films, photos, pictures, and storyboards she will give partial insight into her work in the field of stop motion animation. Participants will create their own cut-out puppet and animate it. In Špela’s own words: I think the best way to learn is always by doing.

Špela Čadež (1977) has been active as an independent animation director and producer since 2008. Her animated films have received more than 100 awards worldwide and were screened at festivals such as Sundance, Clermont Ferrand and Annecy. Among others, she is the author of Boles (2013, e.g. Grand Prix at DOK Leipzig, Cartoon d’Or Nominee), a short puppet animation and Nighthawk (2016, Grand Prix at e.g. HAFF Festival Holland, Animafest Zagreb), which is a multiplane cut-out animation. She is passionate about analogue animation and good stories.