Producers

Icarus in Sivan Omerzu's Prepovedane ljubezni (Forbidden Loves) based on classic motives. The 2009 performance, produced by Ljubljana Puppet Theatre and Konj Puppet Theatre received several international awards.

Puppet designer and puppeteer Silvan Omerzu, who studied fine arts in Ljubljana and then took up puppet design and set design for stages in Prague, established Konj ("Horse") Puppet Theatre in 1993. At the outset, he collaborated closely with Jan Zakonjšek in performances aimed at adult audiences as they were replete with macabre and obscene humour, oscillating between the noble and the grotesque, soapiness and aestheticism, the traditional and the contemporary. Since 2001, Omerzu continues with the performances based on carefully selected texts and innovative relationship between the puppet and its animator.

The Kinoatelje Institute was established in 2000 to enrich and facilitate cross-border cultural projects between Slovenia and Italy. It is a non-profit non-governmental organisation closely related to Kinoatelje, which was founded in 1977 in Gorizia-Gorica (a town on the Italian side of the border) by film critic Darko Bratina.

Every august the Kinoatelje Institute organizes the Youth Film Campus in Nova Gorica, where kids and young video enthusiasts from various European countries meet for a week and make several short films. At the same time, the project gives the young filmmakers an opportunity to prove themselves as mentors, as well.