Annemie Degryse

Annemie Degryse graduated in animation film from KASK in Ghent in 1992 and began her career as studio and production assistant on Raoul Servais's Taxandria, later serving as director of the Raoul Servais Foundation and producing animated shorts. From 1998 to 2000 she handled pre-production support at Cartoon (MEDIA) and organised the first Cartoon Movie, and in 2000 she became general manager of Flanders Image (VAF). In 2008 she founded Lunanime, the production branch of the Lumière Group, which she co-owns; she produces fiction and animated features, shorts and series and works in animation distribution. She is also treasurer of Animation in Europe, a board member of VOFTP and co-managing director of the stop-motion studio Beast Studio.