Gints ZILBALODIS

Gints Zilbalodis(1994) is a Latvian filmmaker best known for directing ‘Flow’ (2024) which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was also nominated for Best International Feature Film becoming the first independent feature film to win this award and the first Latvian film to be nominated. Zilbalodis debut feature film ‘Away’, which he made entirely by himself, won the Best Feature Film Contrechamp Award in Annecy. Prior to ‘Away’ he made 7 short films in various mediums including hand-drawn animation, 3D animation and live-action and often mixing their characteristic aesthetics. In 2019 he founded Dream Well Studio.