Frame by Frame: Opening Screening and Artist Talk

Andrés Eduardo is a stop-motion animator and director whose 2019 student film, Con Fuerza, earned an Annie Award nomination for Best Student Film. His professional work in stop-motion includes serving as an animation assistant on Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning Pinocchio and as an animator on the Emmy-winning series The Tiny Chef Show (2023–2025), as well as the short film Vines. He is honored to be featured as the director of Con Fuerza at the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta this June. 

Michael Granberry is a 3-time Emmy award-winning director and stop-motion animator whose work can be seen in Ben Stiller’s critically acclaimed “Severance,” Guillermo del Toro’s Oscar-winning “Pinocchio,” Henry Selick’s “Wendell & Wild,” Charlie Kaufman’s Oscar-nominated “Anomalisa,” the multiple-award-winning “Tiny Chef Show” and numerous others. His Oscarqualifying short film, “Les Bêtes” has won over 100 awards worldwide, including the Jury Prize at the 2025 Annecy International Animated Film Festival

Emily D. Myers is an Animation Artist and Educator living in Atlanta, GA.  She garnered 15 years of experience in the animation industry primarily as a Puppet Fabricator for feature films like Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Laika’s Paranorman, Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and Missing Link.  She finds joy in short form content creation, which ultimately led her to become a professor at SCAD Atlanta where she guides students in creating their own short films.  Her greatest honor to date is having contributed work to the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit Guillermo del Toro: Crafting Pinocchio.  Myers’s behind the scenes process and puppet fabrication tutorials can be found on her YouTube channel @emilydmyers.

Mikael Trench is an Atlanta-based award-winning stop motion animator, animation historian, and journalist. Under his banner TriClops Films (@triclopsfilms), Trench has carved out a distinct body of stop motion work, characterized by surreal, fantastical imagery and an unpretentious approach that embraces the human hand within the creative process. In addition, he is the founder of the ever-growing platform Stop Motion Movie History (@stopmotionmoviehistory), which aims to celebrate creators and their works from across the eras, while having upfront conversations about the ever-evolving ethics of our industry. 

Trench has had a hand in stop motion series, music videos, and commercials for brands such as American Girl, Cinemassacre, Hot Wheels, and Jurassic World. His original short films have been screened internationally at such events as the Mosaic World Film Festival, Atlanta Film Society’s Locals Only Spotlight Short Film Awards, the Cardiff Animation Festival, the New York Animation Awards, and London’s MicroActs Artist Film Screenings, to name a few. His most recent short film, A Flower Among the Fall, was completed in 2025 and had its world premiere at the 50th Atlanta Film Festival. He also runs an ongoing, all-experience-levels-welcome adult animation workshop in Downtown Atlanta called Clay and Sip in collaboration with Purple Fish Studios.