Farzaneh Yazdandoost (UK) is a PhD candidate in film and media at Cambridge school of creative industries, ARU. She conducts her research on the specificity of puppet animation and photographic reality in Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. She has been organizing ‘PhD Animation Research’ Seminars at the faculty of art, Humanity, and Social Science, ARU since 2020. She also gave presentations at the ‘Performing Animation, Animating Performance’ in 2019, ‘Bringing Legacy to life’ in 2021, and SAS Annual Conference 2022. She is a visiting tutor at Art University Bournemouth.