Rebecca Akoun is a French film director who was born in Paris in 1985. In her work, she deals with the question of identity in all its forms. She uses numerous animation techniques such as cut-out and stop-motion. She studied applied arts at the Estienne art school in Paris and went to Jerusalem to study screen-based art at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design . She directed her first animated short film Le Loup devenu Berger, which was selected at numerous festivals and released in France along with three other short films in ARTE Distribution's “Le Mulot Menteur” program. She currently lives in Vienna, Austria, and has recently collaborated with filmmaker Radu Jude on his new feature film “Dracula Park”. Rebecca Akoun was nominated as a jury member for the international film festival for young audiences Ale Kino! in Poland and at the Bratislava Animation Biennale (BAB) in Slovakia. In 2020, she participated in several roundtables on feminist perspectives in Eastern European perspectives in Eastern European animation in Minsk, in collaboration with Tricky Women Festival and in Slovenia at Stop Trik Festival.
2022 Région Île-de-France , script writing grant , FR
2022 Beaumarchais, script writing TV animation prize 2022, FR
2022 Programme TRAME 2022, Cité internationale des Arts, Paris
2020 International Jury at the Festival
ALEKINO! Poznan,PL
2020 International Jury at the Festival
Biennial of Animation Bratislava(BAB)), SK
2020 Interview for OKTSKOP at Okto TV, AT
2020 Guest at Minsk's Pioneer Cinema/Tricky Women program, Bielorussia
2019 Stoptrick/Panel discussion about feminist perspectives on Central-East European animation scene, SLO
2018 Arbeitsstipendium Illustration, BKA, AT