Robertino Zambrano

Direction & Featured Work

Robertino is a Filipino-Australian, Oscar-shortlisted animator, director and producer, specialising in hybrid animation techniques. He is the founder of KAPWA, a Sydney-based animation studio. His debut short film, Love in the Time of March Madness, won Best Online Short the Tribeca Film Festival, screened at Annecy, was nominated for an AACTA, and shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2016. In 2019, his TED-Ed poetry animation Accents, won the Cristal for Commissioned Films at Annecy. Most recently Robertino directed Billie Eilish’s music video Not My Responsibility, as part of the Grammy-nominated Disney+ concert film Happier Than Ever (2021).

He has created work for Titmouse, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, a title sequence for Netflix's Tijuana, and has made Official Selection in Annecy three other times for his commissioned works, Red Room Poetry, TED-Ed: Stage Fright, and Steven.

Robertino is currently developing Fish Boi, the first adult animation being created under the SBS & Screen Australia Digital Originals initiative, and is a recipient of the Screen Australia Enterprise Business Program 2025. Most recently, Robertino joined the Annecy International Animation Festival Juries in 2025.

I worked with director Alex Grigg and the talented team at Mighty Nice to build a unique shenanigan-filled world for QBE. Working closely with Core and QBE, we designed a quirky little disaster-prone story world and a lovable family of characters th

QBE

Advertising, Animation, Direction
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Nike+ Fuelband

Art Direction, Character Design, Mobile Product Design, Motion Graphics