Soetkin Verstegen is an independent film maker and animator from Brussels. Her films Mr Sand (2016) and Freeze frame (2019) traveled to numerous festivals and received jury awards at Clermont-Ferrand, Ann Arbor, Annecy, Fantoche and Animafest Zagreb. She was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, ZHdK's a-i-l programm, Saari residence and AniDox:Residency. She freelances as a stop motion animator and is a guest professor at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels.