Writer/director/animator Monika Forsberg was born in Sweden and has been living in London since the mid 1990s. She completed an MA Animation at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2001. Her film His Passionate Bride (Animus Films for Channel 4, 2004) was nominated for BAFTA Best Animated Short and has been awarded prizes at film festivals around the world. It received a Public Choice nomination at the British Animation Awards 2006. Since 2003, Monika has been regularly commissioned to direct idents for Nickelodeon UK and to design textiles for clothing by the John Miles Partnership.