Steph Hope is an award-winning animator and illustrator from the most normal town in England. She was named one of the Young Guns 17 by the One Club For Creativity and won the gold award for illustration at Visuelt 2019. Her debut short ‘Not Drifting Off’ was commissioned by FX Networks and has been selected for the 2022 programme at Annecy Animation Festival, Fredrikstad Animation Festival, Interfilm Short Film Festival, Berlin and won Best Nordic Animation at Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim. She is part of the founding team at FUS! Animation, the animation branch of production company FUS! in Oslo.