Ilenia Cotardo is a young film-maker from Italy. She studied Illustration and Animation at IED Milan and chose to specialize in stop motion for her graduation film “Déjà Vu”, in 2014.

After working as a freelance illustrator for a short time in Italy, she has just produced the stop motion short film “Lemon and Elderflower” during the MA Animation course at the University of South Wales, Cardiff.