Ana Chubinidze

Ana Chubinidze is a Tbilisi-based illustrator, author and stop-motion animation filmmaker who works with analogue paper cut-out techniques. She began as an illustrator and pop-up book designer for several Georgian publishing houses, led pop-up book workshops for children and adults, and was a member of the Book Art Center Tbilisi and an organiser and curator of the Tbilisi Book Days festival. In 2017 she co-founded Pocket Studio with Elene Chichashvili, the first stop-motion animation studio in Tbilisi, where she makes children's films and commercials. Her short films The Pocket Man (2016) and Franzy's Soup-Kitchen (2021) have been selected by more than 250 festivals, and she also self-publishes picture books, comics and zines.