BIOGRAPHIE

Ani Antonova (born in Chirpan, Bulgaria) is an animation director, living and working in Vienna, Austria. She graduated Portuguese philology at Sofia University, Multimedia at “die Graphische” and Master in Experimental Media at the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences. Her first documentary animation film “The Outlander” was screened at many international film festivals and received several awards, among them “The audience award of the Austrian Panorama” at Tricky Women/ Tricky Realities 2019 and the Jury’s Citation Award at The Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival (2020, USA). She is a co-founder and an active member of “Kopfkino – Verein für alte und neue Medien”. Since 2017 she collaborates with the artist Dimiter Ovtcharov. Their work embraces the animation in its different states of matter. Filmography: The Outlander (2018) - director, script and animation Publications: Der Standard, Die Presse, Falter, Kurier, Wiener Zeitung, EUROPEAN Cultural News etc. Selected exhibitions: 2018 – Group exhibition “Over and Out”, Museu de São Roque, Lisbon (PT) 2016 – Opposites, Gallery Sofia Press, Sofia, Bulgaria 2016 – Opposites, Gallery Hall G. Danchov Zografina, Chirpan, Bulgaria 2016 – Opposites, City Art Gallery-Plovdiv, Bulgaria

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2022 Cornucopia Director, Production, Referent, Sales, Script, Animation
• 2018 The Outlander Director, Referent, Sales, Script, Animation, Voice