Michaël Dudok De Wit (The Red Turtle) and Alexandra Sasha Balan (The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse) join our very own Abla to discuss their careers and approaches to animation.

The Garden Cinema membership community is not just made up of cinema enthusiasts, but also covers a large range of film creatives.
For our regular industry panels, we invite speakers to discuss their branch of industry, with plenty of time for questions. After the discussion, we all head into the Garden Bar, so you can mingle with fellow members.

About the speakers:

Alexandra Sasha Balan is a 2D animator & illustrator based in London. She has worked on features and shorts, including Oscar & BAFTA winner The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. She graduated from Central Saint Martins in 2015 and her influences range from Art Deco to Samurai Jack to Aeon Flux.

Michaël Dudok de Wit grew up in the Netherlands and has lived in London since 1980, directing independent animated films and TV commercials. He specialises in hand-drawn animation and his shorts have won numerous international awards, including an Oscar and a BAFTA award in 2001 for Father and Daughter and a César for The Monk and the Fish (1995). His most recent project The Red Turtle, won the Special Jury Prize, Un Certain Regard, at Cannes Film Festival (2016) and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2017.

Recorded on 23rd Janaury 2025 at The Garden Cinema
39-41 Parker Street London WC2B 5PQ