The Crew

The Crew

Leticia Agudo is from Seville, Spain. At 17 she went to Britain to pursue an education and career in the theatre. After doing an MA in theatre directing she moved to Dublin at the end of 1997 to form Common Currency Theatre Company with two friends. Leticia directed the audience and critical highlights The Balcony by Jean Genet, Bimbo, by the company’s Rosy Barnes and Alessandro Baricco’s 1900, The Pianist on the Ocean, performed by Donal O’Kelly and translated for the first time into English from Italian by Marella Boschi. Aside from directing, Leticia produced further stage plays and events for the company. In 2001 she obtained another Masters in Film Production to fulfill a life-long inclination to telling stories visually. She has since independently produced, directed and edited two live action shorts and worked as 1^st AD, production manager and editor for fiction and documentary. Together with Paul McGrath she founded Whackala in 2006 to pursue their own projects. Their first together was the award-winning documentary After the Revolution for Spanish Canal Sur TV, which Leticia directed and edited, and they also made the award-winning short doc Forty Foot. She is a member of the European Documentary Network and obtained a Fetac/UCLA cert in Creative Documentary Directing, a Screen Training Ireland course. She also teaches film and media in Coláiste Dhulaigh College in Dublin.

Paul McGrath is from Dublin, Ireland. He studied animation in the renowned Ballyfermot College in Dublin. After graduating, he went to work for Shepard Films in Dublin for a few months and then moved to LA to work as SFX designer for Hyperion Films. Back in Ireland, he continued specialising in SFX design for Shepard Films, after which he co-founded Kavaleer Productions. He wore several hats for the company working on their early projects from 1999 to 2003, when he went to Australia for a change of scenery. There he worked for Liquid Animation, where he moved swiftly up the ranks. He has also worked as a freelance animator for award winning Brown Bag Films, Coco Television, Keg Kartoonz, Loopline Film and Caboom. Since directing a 3D segment for Leticia’s live-action short Shift, they continued to collaborate and ultimately set up Whackala to pursue their common interests. Paul has also taught animation and film production in three different colleges in Dublin. He’s currently working on Straandlooper and Monster Distributes’ series I’m a Monster. For Whackala, he co-directed Forty Foot, co-produced and animated a stop-motion sequence for After The Revolution and he’s currently developing two children animation series.

Andrey Andonov is from Bulgaria. He grew up in the centre of the Rhodopa Mountains in a multi ethical and diverse environment surrounded by people from different religions and cultures. He himself was the result of the love between a Bulgarian Muslim man and a Ukrainian Christian woman. Andrey’s interest in nature led him to study Ecology and Environment Protection in Sofia. After obtaining a bachelor degree he progressed to an MA in Geographical Information Systems. Andrey then worked as an Environmental Consultant for a year and a half. He moved to Dublin in 2008 and decided to change the direction in his life by studying Film Producing in Coláiste Dhúlaigh. While he was learning the craft of filmmaking he used any given chance to make his own films outside college, which resulted in more than twenty shorts: documentary, music video, narrative and experimental films. Recently, Andrey started to write his first novel while also continuing to write short stories and screenplays. Aside from his storytelling journey, Andrey has been involved in another experiment for more than ten years now: he has gradually gone from a standard diet, through a vegetarian and a vegan one. He is now embracing a Natural Hygienic Raw plant base food lifestyle promoting health and wellbeing.