Vera Neubauer

Vera Neubauer is a Czech-born animator and filmmaker working across animation and live action.

She studied art in Prague, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, and filmmaking at the Royal College of Art in London. She has taught filmmaking and animation at Central Saint Martins, the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths University and other institutions. She has made over 40 films using a range of techniques and genres, and has received major international festival awards and two BAFTA Cymru awards. In 2023 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, and in 2025 received the European Animation Awards’ Lotte Reiniger Lifetime Achievement Award.

Her work is often noted for its experimental approach and dark humour. Since 1999 she has worked independently.