Who we are

Royi Akavia is an artist and animator and director of animation,

In 2014 founded a Japanese company KOA Production KK. A production company that develops concept storytelling in 3D and 2D animation for Tv series and the future fi,m. Royi’s art has been displayed in museums and galleries throughout the world and is part of the permanent collection of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Norton Museum in Palm Beach Florida.

Akavia was appointed official artist for Western Unions’ ambitious Y2K painting project and was one of eight artists commissioned to paint an 8′ x 4′canvas featured at Woodstock ’99. He performed art direction for MYV Besch House in Holland and set designs for several projects for MTV Europe. He was a set designer for the MTV Latino Movie Awards nomination in Miami Beach, Florida.

In 2005 Royi founded “Little Director”, an animation company enabling children to bring their drawings to life.  Akavia has been featured on the PBS show Sunny Side Up by Sprout.   Royi contributes his experience in early childhood education to the “Move to Learn Apps” Cloud Lab management team with Columbia University in New York.

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Roberto Mitrotti is an artist, and filmmaker working at the confluence of film, art, and fashion.

He had one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Zurich, Turin, and Florence and has shown in over 50 museums worldwide. In 1998 he exhibited along with David Hockney and Robert Rauschenberg in “Pools ” in Moscow, the first exhibition of American artists in Russia since the Revolution.

Was consultant to Director Michael Mann in the creation of the “Look” for Universal Television “Miami Vice”.

Founded RPM Media to produce TV programs seen in over 20 countries.  Co-wrote the Twentieth Century Fox comedy “The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud” with Carol Kane, Bud Cort, and Klaus Kinsky.  Directed the PBS doc “Sylvia’s Path” produced by Bill Cosby. Produced and hosted the series “The Compulsive Traveler” on CBS TV from 2002 to 2007.

In 2015 he wrote and directed “Stealing Chanel”, a romantic comedy starring Lydia Hearst, which won Best Director and Best Actress at the Manhattan Film Festival in 2015 and is in worldwide distribution with A&E Television.

his process was truly about compromise and listening. Side by side, using a groundbreaking approach, they figuratively rebuilt the old Menorah and brought it to the 21st Century: a light flickering against the dark walls of a cave. The cave of today’s social issues in turmoil.

“The value of this project lies in the fact that a Gentile and a Jew, together, have metaphorically reconstructed a religious symbol that transcends both religion and culture.
Aytun Altindal, Writer – Historian