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Directors List

Suraya Raja is an award-winning writer-director and a BAFTA Connect Member. Her love of storytelling led her to the National Film & Television School, where her graduation film won 15 awards and was selected for over 100 international festivals (including 6 BAFTA and 4 Oscar accredited). Suraya is currently writing and developing new work for children’s TV series’. She draws on her background in mental health and psychology to create character-driven stories with authenticity and humour.

http://www.surayaraja.com

suraya@surayaraja.com

Suraya Raja

Suraya Raja is an award-winning writer-director and a BAFTA Connect Member. Her love of storytelling led her to the National Film & Television School, where her graduation film won 15 awards and was selected for over 100 international festivals (including 6 BAFTA and 4 Oscar accredited).
Suraya is currently writing and developing new work for children’s TV series’. She draws on her background in mental health and psychology to create character-driven stories with authenticity and humour.


Merve Cirisoglu is an award-winning animation director, producer, and educator whose work has been screened at over 355 international film festivals and received more than 65 awards worldwide. Recognised by the United Nations as a top filmmaker and having shared her creative path on the TEDx stage, she blends her backgrounds in Education (BEd) and Animation (MA) to create meaningful, story-driven projects that inspire and educate young audiences.

http://www.animatick.com

merve@animatick.com

Merve Cirisoglu

Merve Cirisoglu is an award-winning animation director, producer, and educator whose work has been screened at over 355 international film festivals and received more than 65 awards worldwide. Recognised by the United Nations as a top filmmaker and having shared her creative path on the TEDx stage, she blends her backgrounds in Education (BEd) and Animation (MA) to create meaningful, story-driven projects that inspire and educate young audiences.


Fahim is an award winning creative with over a decade of experience in the creative industries. He specialises in developing stylised animations for notable clients such as BBC, CBeebies, Channel 5, NorthOne TV and UNDP. His body of work spans across tv series, documentaries, social media, short films and children’s books. His last animated short ‘Falafel Sundays’ travelled the global festival circuit, picking up numerous awards. Most recently he worked on the CBeebies series Nikhil & Jay as an animator. He currently plies his trade at BBC as part of the Bitesize team on projects involving iconic shows such as Shaun the Sheep and Blue Peter.

http://www.fahimation-art.webflow.io

fahimations@gmail.com

Fahim Arif

Fahim is an award winning creative with over a decade of experience in the creative industries. He specialises in developing stylised animations for notable clients such as BBC, CBeebies, Channel 5, NorthOne TV and UNDP. His body of work spans across tv series, documentaries, social media, short films and children’s books.
His last animated short ‘Falafel Sundays’ travelled the global festival circuit, picking up numerous awards. Most recently he worked on the CBeebies series Nikhil & Jay as an animator. He currently plies his trade at BBC as part of the Bitesize team on projects involving iconic shows such as Shaun the Sheep and Blue Peter.

Praveen has over 10 years of experience in the animation industry, specialising as a 2D Rigging Artist with studios including Brown Bag Films, Fourth Wall, Factory Create, and Karrot. His work features in award-winning preschool series such as Nella the Princess Knight, MILO and Slumberkins. He recently created the 2D animated short film A Cancer Story, a personal project exploring his own cancer diagnosis. The film aims to raise awareness and provide reassurance to others on similar journeys, and was recognised at film festivals, winning the Best Documentary Short award at the Manchester Health Film Festival. Alongside his production work, Praveen lectures part-time at university, teaching students about 2D animation pipelines and sharing professional insight into studio workflows and industry standards. Contact Praveen for enquires or colloborations.

http://pzacharias.co.uk

pravzac@gmail.com

Praveen Zacharias

Praveen has over 10 years of experience in the animation industry, specialising as a 2D Rigging Artist with studios including Brown Bag Films, Fourth Wall, Factory Create, and Karrot. His work features in award-winning preschool series such as Nella the Princess Knight, MILO and Slumberkins.

He recently created the 2D animated short film A Cancer Story, a personal project exploring his own cancer diagnosis. The film aims to raise awareness and provide reassurance to others on similar journeys, and was recognised at film festivals, winning the Best Documentary Short award at the Manchester Health Film Festival.

Alongside his production work, Praveen lectures part-time at university, teaching students about 2D animation pipelines and sharing professional insight into studio workflows and industry standards. Contact Praveen for enquires or colloborations.

Neeraja Raj is an Indian-origin London-based film director, writer and animator working in film and media, with an innate desire to tell authentic and emotionally captivating stories.  Her acclaimed 2020 animation film 'Meow or Never' was shortlisted for the 'BAFTA Awards', won the 'Young Director Award', and the International 'Women in Animation' Best Film Award. Her films have officially been featured in Oscar®-Qualifying festivals like SXSW, Tribeca, Cleveland, Austin, Chicago, Sitges and more.   Recognised as one of Variety's Top 10 Animators to Watch (2022) and a Forbes 30 Under 30 - Entertainment honoree (2023), Neeraja has also previously worked at Aardman Animations and Disney. She holds an MA in Directing Animation from the NFTS, UK (2020) and a Bachelor of Design from NID, India (2017).

https://www.neerajaraj.com/

neerajaraj777@gmail.com

Neeraja Raj

Neeraja Raj is an Indian-origin London-based film director, writer and animator working in film and media, with an innate desire to tell authentic and emotionally captivating stories.

 Her acclaimed 2020 animation film 'Meow or Never' was shortlisted for the 'BAFTA Awards', won the 'Young Director Award', and the International 'Women in Animation' Best Film Award. Her films have officially been featured in Oscar®-Qualifying festivals like SXSW, Tribeca, Cleveland, Austin, Chicago, Sitges and more. 

 Recognised as one of Variety's Top 10 Animators to Watch (2022) and a Forbes 30 Under 30 - Entertainment honoree (2023), Neeraja has also previously worked at Aardman Animations and Disney. She holds an MA in Directing Animation from the NFTS, UK (2020) and a Bachelor of Design from NID, India (2017).


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