PAW residency 2025

Maja Brankin & Camila Moreano:
Maja is a Polish animation student passionate about gardening, sewing, and old folk crafts. She’s drawn to small, personal stories and how they reflect larger human experiences.
Camila is a Danish-Ecuadorian CG-artist with a love for cats, camping, and fresh bread. She’s fascinated by how stories travel between places and generations, and loves bringing those to life through moving images.
WORKING ON: As part of their residency, Camila and Maja are creating a short animated music video. Using Maya and Unreal Engine, the piece will be a low-poly, stylized sequence featuring a dog, a cat, and playful storytelling. Inspired by Louie Zong, the project is about experimenting, learning the pipeline, and simply having fun together.

Zuzana Madarasova:
Zuzka is an animation student and self-declared side-quest collector. She writes short fiction about eccentric characters and listens closely to other people’s stories, often finding inspiration in the spaces between languages and traditions.
WORKING ON: An animated documentary pitch about Slavic communities living abroad, with a focus on language and translation as tools for connection rather than division. The project invites audiences to rediscover old customs of openness and hospitality, and to reflect on the meaning of home.

Felix Lipp:
Felix is an artist and filmmaker exploring the quiet resilience of the natural world. Their work moves between film, music, and performance, aiming to slow things down and remind us of the worlds we forget to notice.
WORKING ON: A digitally painted 2D short film based on an old German Christmas song and real accounts of people deported during the Third Reich. Moving slowly through a quiet winter night, the film reflects on displacement, memory, and the fragile beauty of life in the face of violence.

Eda Fisgin:
Eda is an artist and storyteller drawn to surreal worlds and ancient myths. She uses illustration and film to explore the connections between people, places, and rituals. When not creating, you’ll find her cooking or walking outdoors.
WORKING ON:  An animated short film exploring the initiation of a budding shaman within the Mongol Empire. Inspired by folk music and ancient rituals, the film evokes the wonder, disorientation, and transformation of spiritual awakening through a surreal, dreamlike visual language