Benoit Berthe Siward

Emerging figure in the motion pictures industry with a background in animation film-making, Benoit Berthe Siward is a strategist and curator working in Europe and America. After working as Head of departments in Animation Studio in London, Benoit founded in 2016 a strategy agency promoting animation in the world. Very engaged in the Animation industry, he advises animation companies and helped to create the first European Animation Awards Academy - also known as the "Emile Awards" - and holds the role of the International Public Relation Manager of the Academy. He runs "The animation Showcase" screenings presenting the best animated shorts to the creative industry and in the major animation studios around (Pixar, Disney, Dreamworks, Illumination, Laika, Blue Sky...) and creative organizations. This touring showcase is known for being one of the most accurate predictive screening for the front-runner of the Oscars for Best Animated Short Film. Graduated in 2013 with a Master in Digital Direction in Supinfocom, his own experience directing animated short films led him to distribute his own films in festival and to create strategies increasing the visibility of his work, classmate and colleagues works, or to run several crowdfunding campaigns for animated short films raising more than half a million dollars for animated projects. Benoit Berthe now specialized in the diffusion of animated films as a PR and is creating awards campaigns for several films running for the Oscars, BAFTA, Annies and other Motion Pictures Academies.