Hal Miles is the Founder of the Savannah International Animation Festival and is an international award winning animation and visual effects film maker with a impressive 30 plus year career in the motion picture, television, and amusement park industries specializing in animation, visual effects, and animatronics as a director, producer, supervisor, and technician. Hal has helped to or personally created numerous classic and ground breaking techniques and moments on many animation and visual effects Academy Award and Emmy winning projects.

Nancy Miles is the co-founder of the Savannah International Animation Festival and has had a long term affair with the art of Animation and Film. She was fortunate to know and call many entertainment pioneers Friend along with current industry notables. Her working knowledge of old school industry techniques gives her a great foundation and perspective towards today’s animation and entertainment  processes and how they are ulitilized. She has been a long standing founding member of the Women In Animation New York chapter, member of the Washington DC ASIFA chapter, and the President of the Animation Collectors Club of Washington D.C. .

She is  the Co-Owner and Vice President of Hal Miles Imagimation Studios, which is based in Savannah, Georgia, and is a full-service entertainment production company that  produces feature films, television series, commercials and shorts.