Ida Melum

Ida Melum is an EE BAFTA and BIFA-nominated, Annie and RTS award-winning animation director based in Sweden. She is an alumna of the prestigious MA Directing Animation program at the National Film and Television School, where she graduated with the stop-motion film Night of the Living Dread.

The film was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Short Animation, won over 25 awards including an Annie Award in 2023 and was selected for over 100 festivals worldwide.

Melum’s most recent stop-motion short, ‘Ovary-Acting’, was supported by both the Norwegian and Swedish Film Institute and had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2025. It has so far screened at over 100 festivals, been nominated for an Annie, and won 20 awards including the prestigious Sony Future Filmmaking Awards.

Her other credits include working as an animator on acclaimed projects such as the BAFTA-winning Poles Apart and Facing It and the BBC nature documentary Attenborough’s Wonder of Song. In 2022 she was also hired to create and direct the festival trailer for Fredrikstad Animation Festival. She recently wrote and directed a short for Aardman Animations.