ABOUT

Marisa (Ginger) Tontaveetong is a multidisciplinary award winning (Oscar longlisted/ Bronze Telly Award) Animation Director/ Producer based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the art & animation director at BWAStudios. She also co-owns Slothique, a content creation powerhouse with her partners. She was also manager of Productions at Trioscope Studios and has consulted and worked for various studios locally and in Asia. She is also the executive director of UNESCO-affiliated  ASIFA-SOUTH International Animation Society-South and holds an MFA in Animation (SCAD), and a B.Tech in Computer Graphics/ Multimedia (Bangkok University). She volunteers with ACM SIGGRAPH as the Early Career Development Chair, Nurturing strategy Group committee member, and past SIGGRAPH ASIA 2017 Computer Animation Festival Producer. She has also juried for the Oscar qualified Atlanta Film Festival, NW Animation Film Festival, etc

Marisa (Ginger) Tontaveetong is a multidisciplinary award winning Creative Animation Director/ Producer and art& animation director at BWAStudios. Additionally, she is the chief creative officer of Slothique LLC-content creation production studio and production manager at Trioscope Studios. Her latest released work includes Vincent D’Onofrio and George R.R. Martin's "Night of the Cooters"(2022 Release) as post-production manager for Trioscope Studios. She has 15+ years of design background with an MFA in Animation from SCAD and a B.Tech in Computer Graphics/ Multimedia from Bangkok University, where she is also a Hall of Fame Alumni. Her animated short "Starlight" was longlisted for the Oscars, and "Joyrider", a short film she executive produced won the Bronze Telly Award in the Sci-fi-Online category. Her various other projects have screened at Tribeca, Festival De Cannes, and other prestigious festivals. Currently, in Atlanta, she is the executive director of UNESCO- affiliated 501c(3) ASIFA-SOUTH International Animation Society-South. She works in many capacities for ACM SIGGRAPH as the Early Career Development Chair, Nurturing committee, and as a past SIGGRAPH ASIA BKK 2017 Computer Animation Festival Producer. She has juries, curates, sits on panels, and screens animation for various festivals, including the Atlanta Film Festival, SIGGRAPH, and ASIFAC, Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, and usually watches over 500+ animated shorts a year.