Benoît Berthe

Short Biography

Young emerging figure in the animation scene, Benoit Berthe founded his company promoting animation in the world at the age of 27 years old. He ran 3 crowdfunding campaigns for animated short films, and raised more than 200 000 $ for animated projects.Graduated in 2013 with a Master of Digital Direction in Supinfocom leading school in 3D animation, his own experience as a director of animated short films led him to distribute his own films in festival. With 250 selections, his student films have been screened all over the world, multi-awarded, bought and screened in French theaters for one year before long features.This experience helped him to understand the festival network and the importance of showcasing animation films to a wide audience. He has been involved in the diffusion of 3 shorts as a publicist, one of the short has been qualified to the academy award in 2017.Supervisor at the production company "Picasso Pictures" in Soho, and 3D artist at Nexus Studios in London, Benoit also works on a side as a curator and editor for a talent scout magazine and is advising the Vimeo Staff Pick curating team for 7 years.Invested in many associations and organizations, he founded in 2011 the Supinfocom Student Organisation, his university screening club association, he is an active member of The European Emile Animation Academy, Official Jury at VOTD, and for the UNESCO's project "Andimation".