Born in 1966 in Belgium, Arnaud Demuynck is a film director, producer and scriptwriter specialized in short and medium-length animated films. Since his L'Ecluse (The Lock), a short choreographic fiction film made in 2000, he has written and directed many animated films, including a choreographic trilogy made up of Signs of Life (2004), The Shadow of the Veil (2006) and Breakout (2007), followed by a poetic trilogy co-directed with Christophe Gautry La Vita Nuova, The Lunatic Council and An Interrupted Spectacle. With Under Blue Skies (2009), he started writing films for younger audiences, either based on traditional stories and nursery rhymes, or adapted to animation from kid's books.