ROBERT SOWA (1972) Polish animated film director, graphics artist.
Robert graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Graphics Department, specializing in animated film. He earned his masters degree at the Studio of Animated Films in 1999. Currently he works at the Studio of Animated Films, Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow.
Robert Sowa makes animated films realized with techniques such as stop motion, mixed media, painting, and photography. In his work he is looking for visual experimentation and it's connections to experimental sound and contemporary music. For many years he has cooperated with composer Ewa Trębacz.
His films "Sequence", "Interior Portrait" and "The Barber" have been presented at many festivals, international screenings, and art galleries, including:  CENTRUM POMPIDOU, Paris, MUSEUM of MODERN ART, New York  Festival del Film LOCARNO, Switzerland, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media DXARTS University of Washington, USA, Anima Mundi GALLERY, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasil, NATIONAL MUSEUM in Krakow, Gallery of XX cent. Polish Arts "Graphic and Animation"— film "The Barber" in permanent exhibition, THE NEW GENERATION OF POLISH CINEMA, London, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, and Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona.
Robert Sowa is a member of the ASIFA — Association Internationale du Film D'Animation, Polish Filmmakers Association and Association of Animated, Experimental and Video Film Artists "Studio A". Since 1996, he cooperate the International Animated Film Workshops in Krakow, which aims at supporting animated film and international cooperation in the field.

LE DERNIER CRI
There´s no other publishing concern like that of Marseille based Le Dernier Cri (The Last Scream) whose stock in trade is extreme, unrepressed artistic expression. Founded in 1993, emerging from ashes of the „underground zine“ movement of Paris in the 1980s, Le Dernier Cri has published well over 150 books, the majority of which are still hand printed using the silk screen press, making them small Works of art, which they continue to sell for peanuts.
Le Dernier Cri is Pakito Bolino, who appears to be the brains of the operation, and Caroline Sury, who actually works one hemisphere  of that brain. Both are prolific artists of considerable talent and somehow find the time to make books of their own magnificent works on a regular basis. They have a humongous studio, a ratty car and a beautiful little boy named Oskar who looks smarter than both of them.
http://www.lederniercri.org/

MARIUSZ FRUKACZ (1976) — the Polish film critic and promoter of animated film. He's finished film and media studies at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. In 1998-99 he was working with IFF "ETIUDA" and Krakow Film Festival. Since 2000 he's a program director of National Festival of Author Animated Films OFAFA in Poland. A lecturer in a few Film Discussion Clubs and freelance animation film programmer (Zagreb, Prague, Nuremberg, Stockholm, Warsaw, etc). Author of the book "24 frames per second. The discourses about the animation" (Kraków 2009) — book with interviews with young polish directors of animated films.  Co-author of the books: "Tekstylia Bis. Dictionary of the young polish culture" (Krakow 2006) and "Polish animated film" (Warsaw 2008). He publish in KINO and MRÓWKOJAD. Co-author of film selection on "Action Animation. The Most Recent Films" (Polish Audiovisual Publishers, 2009).
http://24klatkinasekunde.blogspot.com