Malte Stein is an independent animation film-maker based in Berlin. In 2013, he graduated from the Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg with a diploma in animation. Before that, he had studied scriptwriting and has drawn a lot of comic stories since the 1990s. His animated short films Blue Dream (2013), Flood (2018) and Thing (2021) were screened at many festivals and won several awards. In 2022 he took part in the TAIS Artist in Residence program in Toronto, Canada. He has worked as an animator for several short and feature films, as a screenwriter for TV series, co-curator for DokLeipzig and was a jury member at several film festivals. Since June 2022 he has been working on his new animated film project in which he has also taken on the role of producer.