22/11/2025
On November 21, 2025 during Black Nights Awards Ceremony there was also revealed the Lotte Reiniger Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Lotte This is awarded to an individual in recognition of the outstanding lifetime contribution to the art of Animation.
This year the Lotte Reiniger award went to an animator, experimental filmmaker, feminist activist and educator.
Born in former Czechoslovakia, our winner is an important figure in the history of animation and has been linked to the second wave of British animation. Her experiences of life as a refugee have influenced her films, as well as do her personal feelings about birth, death and abuse as well as the topics of femininity, myth and existence.
She has no fear of being proactive and anti-establishment.
Over five decades as an animator, her creative work spans genres from short film to television series for children. She has taught art and filmmaking at Central Saint Martins School of Art at the Royal College of Art, and as well, at Goldsmiths University.
The Emile Awards Committee is pleased to present the 2025 Lotte Reiniger Awards to VERA NEUBAUER!
The award was presented by the EAA board member Kerdi Oengo and 2024 Lotte Reiniger Lifetime Achievement Award winner Priit Pärn.
Photos by Erlend Štaub.
