Ala Nunu
Visual Effects
Biography
Polish animation director currently based in Portugal. She has experience in directing and art directing for commercial and artistic projects including TV series, social campaigns, music videos and short films. Her portfolio includes working for Adult Swim Toonami, Universal Studios and Frank Sinatra Estate, The Atlantic or the On Being Project. Her film Ahead has been screened at festivals like Animafest Zagreb, Bucheon International Animation Festival, Festival Anima in Brussels and her latest film Telsche, co-directed with Sophie Colfer premiered in Annecy, was screened at festivals like Tokyo Anime Awards and was awarded inter alia at the Cinanima festival for best Sound Design. She regularly teaches at the University of Algarve in Portugal and PJWSTK in Warsaw, Poland. She is also a co-founder of COLA international production cooperative, where she helps bring to life a wide variety of projects from short films to VR experiences. As an animator, Nunu has recently worked on films such as the Oscar nominated Ice Merchants or the multi awarded Slow Light.
Known For
A spaceprobe called Beresheet, legless birds of paradise, hamster cull and humanity trying to make the world make sense.
In the Beginning
A story of a man with a very dense eyes who sees all the surrounding reality only after seven years. The consequence of the eye defect translates into the mental immaturity of the man, lack of understanding of the present and belated reflections on long-gone facts. The man is never mature enough for his age and constantly lingers on the past.
Slow Light
Every day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
Ice Merchants
A young man walks around London, asking strangers how to have sex.
Sex Moves
Pascal lives with his parents in a city full of smog. So many missteps and accidents happen in a dense fog. The obscure smog can easily hide people's secrets and infamous... insects. The discovery of one of these mysteries change Pascal's life forever.
Insect
While working opposite schedules, a couple attempts to maintain their connection through fleeting encounters.
Two Ships
Over 50 animators from 19 countries collaborated to support Belarusians in their peaceful protests for fair elections and freedom. The animators offered their interpretation of the recent events in Belarus, creating the animated chronicles of these dramatic events. The white-red-white flag is a historical symbol of Belarus and has become a symbol of peace, protest, and hope for the people of Belarus. The youngest animator who participated in the project is only 12 years old.
Long Live Belarus
The fear of being overwhelmed by the outside world can literally make you lose your head.
Ahead
One person's futile struggle to turn back time in the form of a music video/animated short film.
Disappear
“Telsche” is a 2D short animation film that explores memory, loss, and love. It is about the journey that one girl takes to remember someone she has long forgotten.
Telsche
A statue comes alive at night.