Maria Bondar

Maria Bondar is an animator and animation teacher. She trained as a communications engineer and as a teacher of Russian language and literature before completing the animator (2016) and puppet animation (2017) courses at Tseh animatsii, where she worked as an animator and stop-motion workshop leader until 2019. Since 2019 she has taught at the animation department of the Theatre Art and Technical College, and she is a tutor at the Moscow Film School. Her animation credits include the puppet film Stolen Melody and the series Three Cats and Paws Up, and she has led stop-motion workshops at the Cartoon Factory in Moscow, Voronezh and Nizhny Novgorod and at the Tumo school in Armenia.