
Acclaimed filmmaker Andreas Hykade has been appointed director of the animation and visual effects program at Germany’s Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. He replaces Thomas Haegele, who retired in December 2014.
With films for adults and children to his name, the 46-year-old Hykade is best known for his award-winning “country films” trilogy: We Lived in Grass (1995), Ring of Fire (2000), and The Runt (2005).
His most recent short is Nuggets (2015):