Dorota Kobiela is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw—receiving the Minister of Culture scholarship for special achievements in painting and graphics for four consecutive years—and The Warsaw Film School. She has directed one live-action short film,
The Hart in Hand (2006), and five animated shorts:
The Letter (2004),
Love Me (2004),
Mr. Bear (2005),
Chopin’s Drawings (2011), and
Little Postman (2011).
Little Postman was the world’s first (and, to her knowledge, still only) stereoscopic painting animation film, and won Stereoscopic Best Short Film at the LA 3D Film Festival, 3D Stereo Media (Liege), and 3D Film & Music Fest (Barcelona).
Loving Vincent is Kobiela’s feature film debut, achieving her goal to combine her passion for painting and film.
Hugh Welchman graduated from Oxford University with a degree in PPE and a vague notion of wanting to make films. He supported himself by teaching history, selling carpets, and even selling fish, while he joined various grassroots film cooperatives in London, before attending The National Film & Television School. His graduation film,
Crowstone, won the Cinefoundation Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. He got his first professional experience producing short films for Monty Python, before founding BreakThru Films.
Peter and the Wolf, BreakThru’s first major production in 2008, received an Oscar, the Annecy Cristal, and the Rose D’or. After falling in love with Polish painter and director, Dorota Kobiela, Hugh also fell in love with her film project,
Loving Vincent, and has been working with her on it ever since.