Pearl of the Sea

About Anthony SilverstonRaffaella Delle Donne

Anthony Silverston is partner and Head of Development at Triggerfish Animation Studios in South Africa where he is currently overseeing a slate of projects in development and production.  These include Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire an anthology of 10 short films in production with Disney+ Mama Ks Team 4  with Netflix and Kiya with Disney eOne and Frogbox as well as a number of feature films and TV series in development with various partners. In 2015 he oversaw the Story Lab an initiative where 4 feature films and 4 TV series were chosen to be developed after a continent-wide search that drew almost 1400 entries. He also directed and co-wrote the feature film Khumba which premiered in competition at Annecy International Animation Festival in 2013. The script co-written with Raffaella Delle Donne won a major UK scriptwriting competition in 2006 and was the first animation selected for No Borders Co-Production Market in its 30-year history. He has produced and written on Seal Team (released globally in December 2021 on Netflix) as well as Triggerfishs first feature Zambezia.  Silverston was also producer of the short film Belly Flop which screened at over 135 festivals and won 14 awards and the Blender short film Troll Girl. Before joining Triggerfish he completed three independent stop-motion shorts of his own.  He is also a published Microbiologist which is a fact that has become increasingly less useful over the years. Raffaella Delle Donne has over fifteen years of experience in the animation industry developing and creating content for Disney eOne Wekids Snipple Animation Netflix Baobab Studios and Triggerfish Animation Studios. She was the TV Development Executive for the Triggerfish Studios/Disney Storylab that incubated Mama K's Team 4 and co-wrote the award-winning features Adventures in Zambezia and Khumba. Raffaella is currently a writer and Executive Creative Consultant on Kiya and the Kimoja Heroes a new preschool show slated for release on Disney. Willem Samuel is a visual artist working in animation and comic books. His autobiographical novel Mengelmoes was published in the UK by Soaring Penguin Press in 2016 to critical acclaim. His comic work has featured in zines internationally including the cult series Bitterkomix and in cyberspace via the award-winning online anthology Aces Weekly brainchild of David Lloyd (V for Vendetta). Previously Willem Art Directed the pan-African comic Supa Strikas which was adapted into an animated series. More recently he served as Head of Story on the animated feature Seal Team as well as creating concept art for the Warhammer+ streaming series Hammer & Bolter.