Celia Tisserant

Celia was born in1995, in Remiremont (France). After obtaining a DMA at the ESAAT (College Arts Appliqués Et Textile), Celia Tisserant worked with Nicolas Liguori on his film THE WIND IN THE REEDS. In 2018, she co-directed with Celia Tocco her first short film, THE GOLDEN TORTOISE, and in 2019, her second short film, THE LITTLE RED CHICK. She co-directed her 1st medium-length film with Arnaud Demuynck, OLD MOTHER SNOW in 2020. All these films were released in short film programmes in the French cinemas.

Arnaud Demuynck

Born in 1966, in Courtrai (Belgium). Arnaud Demuynck is a film director, producer and scriptwriter specialized in short and medium-length animated films. Since his L’ÈCLUSE (The Lock), a short choreographic fiction film made in 2000, he has written and directed many animated films, including a choreographic trilogy made up of SIGNS OF LIFE (2004), THE SHADOW OF THE VEIL (2006) and BREAKOUT (2007), followed by a poetic trilogy co-directed with Christophe Gautry (LA VITA NUOVA, THE LUNATIC COUNCIL and AN INTERRUPTED SPECTACLE). With UNDER BLUE SKIES, he started writing films for younger audiences, either based on traditional stories and nursery rhymes (THE MITTEN, THE GIANT CARROT, THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE, THE RUNAWAY BISCUIT), or adapting kids' books to animation (COUNTING SHEEP, DRAGON HUNT, THE UNICORN, STRENGTH IN NUMBERS) and many of them were presented at Giffoni Film Festival as in several international festivals. He is also the author of the original scripts of two 26 minute films: THE SCENT OF CARROTS (co-directed with Rémi Durin, and attracting over 170,000 viewers) and THE WIND IN THE REEDS (co-directed with Nicolas Liguori), both of them with a strong focus on the musical content. In 2021 he directed his first animated feature film with Remi Durin, YUKU AND THE HIMALAYAN FLOWER.