Pamela Cohn

Originally from Los Angeles, California and based in Helsinki, Finland, Pamela Cohn works as a moving image curator, arts & culture journalist, mentor, and nonfiction project consultant. She is the author of Lucid Dreaming: Conversations with 29 Filmmakers (2020) and co-produces, writes and hosts the Lucid Dreaming Podcast: Conversations on Cinema, Art & Moving Image with LONO Studio in London. She serves on DokuFest’s selection committee and has a regular conversation series for Documentary Association Europe in Berlin. Pamela is an independent member of FIPRESCI – the International Federation of Film Critics, and leads workshops for young film critics in Hungary and Serbia. She is the year-long curator-in-residence at HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme on Suomenlinna island in Helsinki.

Igor Prassel 

Igor Prassel was born in 1971 in the Slovenian coast town Koper. From 2002 he has been running a monthly series devoted to animated film at the Slovenian Cinematheque, where he is currently working as film curator. In 2004 he founded the Animateka International Animated Film Festival, where he is the artistic director. He is closely following the evolution of the animated documentary form.