Frank Braun (1965, Winterthur) lives and works since 1990 in Zurich as program director of the arthouse cinemas Riffraff, Zurich and Bourbaki, Lucerne. He started off Fantoche, the international animation film festival in Baden, Switzerland, was part of the festival management for many years and keeps up to be president of the festival committee. With Claudius Gentinetta he made two animated short films The Cable Car (2008) and Sleep (2010).