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Maddie is a social documentary filmmaker and runs the non-profit Sobriety Films UK.  Her films have been shown on Channel 4 and ITV Anglia in the UK.  ‘How I Got Sober,’ a short doc was premiered at the U.S Reel Recovert Film Festival in LA 2019, screened in New York and London and short listed for World of Women Film Fair Middle East (2020)  SING, her second film for SFUK was a finalist at the Reel Recovery Film Festival 2019 in London. She has a degree in television production from Westminster University and learnt her trade at the seminal British broadcasting charity The Media Trust.

He is a Greek film and animation professional. He is the Head Editor of Zippy Frames, a leading online international journal on independent animation. He has served as jury member in many animation festivals. He received (2016) the Society for Animation Studies Award for Best Scholarly Article in Animation. His short film scripts The Hotel and Mar(t)y have been awarded at various international competitions, and he recently completed the short film Homespital. He is a voting member of the Annie Awards and a Rotten Tomatoes approved film critic; since 2019, he also works as PÖFF Shorts Animation Programme Director (Estonia).