Punanimation was founded in February 2015, by 3 friends: Bee Grandinetti, Hedvig Ahlberg and Linn Fritz. Although we were originally just 3, today our whole community is built by over 2500 women, trans and non-binary friends from all over the world, working within the many different fields and specializations of animation and motion graphics. We were a bit tired of this industry being too much of a boy’s club, so we decided to do something about it. Punanimation started as a facebook group, aiming to bring the ladies, trans and non-binary people together. The community started to expand and our dear members helped shaping it into a lively, inspiring and awesome platform to exchange knowledge and support. Since then, we've been receiving so many words of encouragement from our members that it just confirms this was not only the right thing to do, but very much needed. This pushed us to work on the next, bigger step: putting together a directory that makes it easy for anyone to get a hold of that talent. No more excuses for male-only studios, speaker line-ups and director rosters. Diversity exists, it's got skills and it's here.