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UK ANIMATION CATALOGUE 2019
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 4
SHORT ANIMATION 6
FEATURE-LENGTH ANIMATION 42
VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)/ IMMERSIVE
EXPERIENCE ANIMATION 46
PROGRAMMERS’ POINTS OF VIEW 52
ANIMATION IN THE UK 54
ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL 57
BRITISH COUNCIL NEW TALENT & SHORTS 58
BRITISH COUNCIL FILM GLOBAL PROJECTS 60
INDEX OF FILMS 64
Cover: Live a Little, Director: Jenny Jokela
1ST Directorial debuts are indicated with this symbol
All inclusive images remain the copyright of their respective owners and may
not be reproduced without the expressed permission of the rights holders. 3
INTRODUCTION UK Animation Catalogue 2019 Welcome to the 2019 UK Animation Catalogue presented by the British Council. We’re proud to be championing new and upcoming UK films and filmmakers to programmers and audiences around the world. The catalogue includes details of selected recent UK animated shorts, features and VR, and flags up some productions due for release soon. In addition to the animation and VR project listings, you can also find information in this catalogue about some of the work we do and the partners we work with. Film credits and information in this catalogue are drawn from our UK Film Directory. The Directory is an information resource which includes an extensive selection of UK titles currently in production, as well as details of recently completed UK shorts and feature length films. You can explore the UK Film Directory, as well as further directories listing both UK filmmakers and international film festivals, at www.britishcouncil.org/film Contact films@britishcouncil.org Sign up for our newsletter at: www.britishcouncil.org/film Follow us @British_Film 4
Zog, Directors: Max Lang, Daniel Snaddon 5
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SHORT ANIMATION
101 Dalmation Street: Walkies on the Wild Side, Director: Miklos Weigert
101 Dalmatian Street - Almost There
Walkies on the Wild Side
Synopsis Synopsis
A canine comedy set in 21st century London following the On an everyday train journey quite unlike any other, a not-
adventures of the eldest siblings Dylan and Dolly, their mum so-casual observer goes to extreme lengths to avoid other
and dad, and 97 younger brothers and sisters. passengers, a giant baby runs away from his parents, a
Featured episode Walkies on the Wild Side – after Dolly romantic woman starts an ill-fated relationship with a cuckoo,
teases Dylan for being too domestic, Dylan is determined to and a naïve boy discovers that some problems can’t be fixed
show her he can be wild and enlists Fergus the Fox to bring by pictures of unicorns.
out his inner wolf. Official Selection Animafest Zagreb World Festival of
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Animated Film 2019 - Student Film Competition
Festival 2019 - TV Films Competition
Details
Details Year: 2019
Year: 2018 Running Time: 8 mins 49 secs
Running Time: 11 mins Director: Nelly Michenaud
Director: Miklos Weigert Producer: Nelly Michenaud
Producer: Karen Doyle
Executive Producer: Cara Speller
Screenwriter: Head Writer: Maria O’Loughlin; Screenwriters:
Ciarán Morrison, Mick O’Hara; Storyboard: Barry Reynolds
Sound: James O’Brien
Music: Nathan Klein, Rupert Cross, Theo Vidgen
Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Michaela Dietz, Josh Brener, Ella
Kenion, Rhashan Stone, Conor MacNeill, Ben Bailey Smith,
Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Rhys Isaac-Jones
Character Designer: Marie Ecarlat, Andrea Torrejón,
Caroline Lefèvre, Margaux Zinsner
Transmission Format Details: 101 Dalmatian Street series
comprises of 40 x 11 min episodes, 5 x 22 min specials/two-
parters and 10 x 2 min shorts
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Passion Animation Studios (UK), National Film and Television National Film and Television
Atomic Cartoons (CA), Disney School School
Channels (EMEA) Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios
141 Station Rd 141 Station Rd
Passion Animation Studios
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield
Passion Pictures
HP9 1LG HP9 1LG
County House
+44 (0)1494 671234 +44 (0)1494 671234
33-34 Rathbone Place
festivals2@nfts.co.uk festivals2@nfts.co.uk
London
www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk
W1T 1JN
+44 (0)20 7323 9933
info@passion-pictures.com
www.passion-pictures.com
SHORT ANIMATION 7
The Art of Change Back and Forth
- Climate Change
Synopsis Synopsis
An alternative reality scenario where a group of animals has We all have a different rhythm. Back and Forth is a dance
become organised and are committed to make themselves about individual rhythms that go together, seem to clash or
heard by humans, guerrilla style. The film is a surrealist take just stay separate.
on human responsibility over climate change and on our
inescapable connection with nature. Details
Year: 2018
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Running Time: 4 mins 26 secs
Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition
Director: Lisa Foster
Producer: Luc Degryse (KASK)
Details
Editor: Lisa Foster
Year: 2018
Director of Photography: Lisa Foster
Running Time: 2 mins 50 secs
Production Designer: Lisa Foster
Director: Elisa Morais, Maria Alvarez
Sound: Jürgen De Blonde
Producer: Elisa Morais, Kelly Ram
Music: Jürgen De Blonde
Editor: Maria Alvarez, Elisa Morais
Screenwriter: Elisa Morais, Maria Alvarez
Production Designer: Maria Alvarez, Elisa Morais
Sound: Elisa Morais, Maria Alvarez
Animation: Elisa Morais, Maria Alvarez
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
A Sois de Traca production in Belgium, UK co-production KASK, School of Arts Ghent
collaboration with The Smalls. Lisa Foster Luc Degryse
Commissioned by The Barbican www.lisafoster.be Jozef Kluyskensstraat 2
Sois de Traca 9000 Ghent
Maria Alvarez The Netherlands
film@soisdetraca.com +31 09 2433600
www.soisdetraca.com lucdegryse1@gmail.com
www.schoolofartsgent.be
8 SHORT ANIMATION
Barbeque The Beatles “Glass Onion”
Synopsis Synopsis
Barbeque is the visceral journey about coping with post- Commissioned to mark the 50th Anniversary of The White
traumatic stress disorder. The film visualises feelings and Album, Glass Onion draws on a dazzling variety of animation
experiences that might be too difficult or painful to put into techniques to breathe new life into Richard Hamilton’s iconic
words and illustrates the circular process of coping. collage.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Films Competition - Winner, Cristal Award for Best Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition
Graduation Film
Details
Details Year: 2018
Year: 2017 Running Time: 2 mins 23 secs
Running Time: 5 mins 44 secs Director: Alasdair Brotherston, Jock Mooney
Director: Jenny Jokela Producer: Richard Barnett, Layla Atkinson
Producer: Royal College of Art Director of Photography: Pete Ellmore
Editor: Jenny Jokela Music: The Beatles
Sound: Jenny Jokela Animation: Andy Biddle, Chris Cray, Alex Potts, Rok Predin,
Music: Sarah Playford Tobias Fouracre
Sound Mix: Adam Woodhams Compositing: Alasdair Brotherston
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Royal College of Art Royal College of Art Trunk Animation
Suzanne Buchan Suzanne Buchan Studio 15
Kensington Gore Kensington Gore O Central
London London 83 Crampton Street
SW7 2EU SW7 2EU London
suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk SE17 3BQ
animation@rca.ac.uk animation@rca.ac.uk +44 (0)20 7407 0221
www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk info@trunk.me.uk
www.trunk.me.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 9
Bloomers Body World
Synopsis Synopsis
Animated fabric brings the story of a lingerie factory in What would it be like to realise you’re only a figment in
Manchester to life. Silk, cotton and lace go under the camera, someone else’s imagination? Body World brushes up against
as the workers recount the history of Headen & Quarmby, philosophical existentialist horror, smudges the boundaries
the UK garment manufacturing industry, and British family between the dream world and real life, and inhabits the
traditions of making. A specially composed soundtrack by space where body meets mind.
Swedish composer Malin Bång, inspired by sounds of sewing Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation
machinery, evokes the ups and downs of the factory. Films Competition
Details Details
Year: 2019 Year: 2017
Running Time: 9 mins 35 secs Running Time: 7 mins 11 secs
Director: Samantha Moore Director: Kitty Faingold
Producer: Abigail Addison Producer: Royal College of Art
Music: Malin Bång Editor: Kitty Faingold
Collaborators: The team at the Headen & Quarmby Screenwriter: Kitty Faingold
lingerie factory Sound: Amadeo Faingold, Max Mannone
Commissioners: Klangforum Wien Music: Amadeo Faingold
Animation: Kitty Faingold
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Animate Projects Animate Projects Royal College of Art Royal College of Art
Abigail Addison Abigail Addison Suzanne Buchan Suzanne Buchan
45 Empress Road 45 Empress Road Kensington Gore Kensington Gore
Derby Derby London London
DE23 6TD DE23 6TD SW7 2EU SW7 2EU
abigail@animateprojects.org abigail@animateprojects.org suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk
www.animateprojects.org www.animateprojects.org animation@rca.ac.uk animation@rca.ac.uk
www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk
10 SHORT ANIMATIONBrexicuted Cheerios “It’s All Family”
Synopsis Synopsis
This satirical animation considers why Brexit is happening. Highlighting the beauty in today’s diverse American families.
A variety of British characters, interviewed the day after the Sharing a message that any familial variation is okay, as long
UK voted to leave the EU, speak about what motivated their as it is governed by love.
decision. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition
Details
Year: 2018 Details
Running Time: 6 mins Year: 2019
Director: Chris Shepherd Running Time: 1 min 10 secs
Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin; Associate Producer: Abigail Director: Johnny Kelly
Addison Producer: Isobel Conroy
Production Designer: Design: Simon Spilsbury Director of Photography: Matthew Day
Sound: Andy Humphreys Commissioned by: Cheerios
Music: Carl Davis
Principal Cast: Jean Boht, Steve Furst, Marie Lawrence,
Tom Hillenbrand, Carolina Valdes
Animation: Chris Shepherd, Barry Evans, Lynne Pritchard,
Martha Halliday, Hannah McNally, James Newport, Kate
Anderson, Matt King, Charlie Nathan Neville, Alan Warburton
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Autour de Minuit Autour de Minuit Nexus Studios
21, rue Henry Monnier 21, rue Henry Monnier 25 Chart Street
75009 Paris 75009 Paris London
France France N1 6FA
info@autourdeminuit.com festivals@autourdeminuit.com +44 (0)20 7749 7500
blog.autourdeminuit.com blog.autourdeminuit.com info@nexusstudios.com
www.nexusstudios.com
SHORT ANIMATION 11Chin Up Cleaning in Progress
Synopsis Synopsis
Following animator JoAnne Salmon’s story, from being Working in a car park, tensions arise between a naïve, young
1 in 50,000 babies born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, cleaner and his old-timer talking brush in their differences of
to currently living her dreams as an animator. approach and attitude where ultimately, one cannot do their
job without the other.
Winner, MOFILM Many Voices - Year of the Women Award
2018 Official Selection Animafest Zagreb World Festival of
Animated Film 2019 - Student Film Competition
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Festival 2019 - Perspectives Short Film Competition
Details
Year: 2018
Details
Running Time: 6 mins 30 secs
Year: 2018
Director: Grant Holden
Running Time: 4 mins 41 secs
Producer: Edinburgh College of Art
Director: JoAnne Salmon
Sound: Adam McCallum
Producer: Georgina Hurcombe
Music: Victoria Wijeratne
Executive Producer: Trak Ellis-Hill, Lee Margolis
Principal Cast: Alex Bird, Rod Young
and Sophie Robertson for MoFilm
Editor: Joe Simpson
Screenwriter: JoAnne Salmon, Oliver Selby
Director of Photography: Jerry Alves
Sound: Tom Angell
Music: Tom Angell
Principal Cast: JoAnne Salmon
Animation: Sunny Clarke, JoAnne Salmon, Joe Simpson,
Dale Molloy Production Co-ordinator: Shannon Reeve
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
LoveLove Films LoveLove Films Edinburgh College of Art
Georgina Hurcombe Georgina Hurcombe School of Design
Cinechrome Studios Cinechrome Studios 74 Lauriston Place
64-68 Calvin Road 64-68 Calvin Road Edinburgh
Bournemouth Bournemouth EH3 9DF
Dorset Dorset +44 (0)131 651 5800
BH9 1LN BH9 1LN eca@ed.ac.uk
+44 (0)1202 537858 +44 (0)1202 537858 www.eca.da.ac.uk
ghurcombe@lovelovefilms.com ghurcombe@lovelovefilms.com
Grant Holden
www.lovelovefilms.com www.lovelovefilms.com
www.blipblob.co.uk
12 SHORT ANIMATIONConstruction Lines A Daily Chat
Synopsis Synopsis
A short, animated film about the interior of an ‘iceberg’ This is a nonsense debate. When lovers build up a
home (a home where the sub-ground levels are larger than relationship, they fill in every moment with silence, whispers,
the house above). The iceberg home in question was not laughter and screaming. This is a nonsense debate.
developed due to hundreds of objections from surrounding Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation
neighbours in Knightsbridge, West London. Construction Films Competition
Lines shows this iceberg home rendered as a 3D model,
using the original architectural plans and the software Details
‘Sketchup’. The narrative of the film, the model of the home, Year: 2017
and the scenes played out within it, are informed by the Running Time: 5 mins 3 secs
objections filed against the planning application, as well as Director: Cheng-Hsu Chung
online articles speculating about the lives and lifestyles of Producer: Royal College of Art
the super-rich. Editor: Cheng-Hsu Chung
Official Selection at Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2017 - Screenwriter: Cheng-Hsu Chung
World premiere Sound: Jarrah Hewes
Official Selection Hamburg International Short Film Festival Principal Cast: Voiceover: Aria Emory, Rebecca Henser
2018 - Deframed Competition - International premiere
Winner, Tenderflix Artist Video Award 2017
Winner - Best Fiction Short - Architecture Film Festival
London
Details
Year: 2017
Running Time: 7 mins 41 secs
Director: Max Colson
Producer: Max Colson
Co-Producer: Max Colson
Executive Producer: Max Colson
Editor: Max Colson
Screenwriter: Max Colson
Director of Photography: Max Colson
Production Designer: Max Colson
Sound: Max Colson
Music: Audionautix
Principal Cast: Paul Bailey, Sandra Pearlmutter
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Max Colson Film and Video Max Colson Film and Video Royal College of Art Royal College of Art
Max Colson Max Colson Suzanne Buchan Suzanne Buchan
maxdfcolson@gmail.com maxdfcolson@gmail.com Kensington Gore Kensington Gore
London London
SW7 2EU SW7 2EU
suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk
animation@rca.ac.uk animation@rca.ac.uk
www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 13Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared Double Portrait
Synopsis Synopsis
Based on the hugely popular web series, following A hand painted animation by artist Ian Bruce which portrays
roommates Red Guy, Yellow Guy, and Duck, who live the ill-fated relationship between Geraldine Peacock and Bob
simple and repetitive lives in the complacent technicolour Gannicott.
community of Clayhill… until the town’s mayor disappears,
and everything descends into utter chaos. Details
Year: 2018
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Indie
Running Time: 6 mins
Episodic Shorts Program - World premiere
Director: Ian Bruce
Producer: Ian Bruce
Details
Editor: Andrew Burns
Year: 2019
Sound: Paul Pritchard
Running Time: 23 mins
Music: Victoria Falconer-Pritchard
Director: Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling
Animator: Ian Bruce
Producer: Hugo Donkin, Charlie Perkins
Executive Producer: James Stevenson Bretton,
Thomas Stuart
Screenwriter: Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling, Baker Terry
Production Company Production Company
Blink Industries Ian Bruce
Tom Stuart info@ianbruce.net
tom@blink.industries www.ianbruce.net
14 SHORT ANIMATIONDum Dum (De De Bom) Enough
Synopsis Synopsis
In order to hand over creative responsibility, a reluctant Moments of lost self-control.
animator introduces his six-year-old son to the boiling line.
The result is a cacophonograph! Details
Year: 2017
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Running Time: 2 mins 23 secs
Festival 2019 - Perspectives Short Film Competition
Director: Anna Mantzaris
Producer: Royal College of Art, Anna Mantzaris
Details
Editor: Anna Mantzaris
Year: 2018
Screenwriter: Anna Mantzaris
Running Time: 2 mins
Director of Photography: Donna Wade
Director: Benjamin Hall, Robin Hall
Production Designer: Anna Mantzaris
Producer: Benjamin Hall
Sound: André Parklind
Music: Junior From Litter One Design
Music: Phil Brookes
Animation: Benjamin Hall
Post production: Hugo Vieites Caamano
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Benjamin Hall Anna Mantzaris interfilm Berlin
B.D.Hall@leedsbeckett.ac.uk anna.mantzaris@network.rca.ac.uk +49 30 25 94 29 02
www.annamantzaris.se acquisition@interfilm.de
www.interfilm.de
Royal College of Art
Suzanne Buchan
Kensington Gore
London
SW7 2EU
suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk
animation@rca.ac.uk
www.rca.ac.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 15The Entire History of Facing It
Japanese Animation
Synopsis Synopsis
A personal and unique vision of a century of Japanese As Sean waits anxiously in the local pub, he is forced to
animation. explore his own unhappy memories and relationships in an
evening that will leave him changed forever.
Official Selection Animafest Zagreb World Festival of
Animated Film 2019 Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation
Short Film Competition
Details Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Animated Shorts Competition
Year: 2018
Running Time: 2 mins 55 secs Details
Director: Peter Millard Year: 2018
Producer: New Deer Running Time: 8 mins 30 secs
Sound: Peter Millard Director: Sam Gainsborough
Music: Peter Millard Producer: Jimmy Campbell-Smith
Editor: Mdhamiri A Nkemi
Screenwriter: Louisa Wood
Director of Photography: Bruno Grilo
Production Designer: Fiona Guest
Sound: Adam Woodhams
Music: Jack Newton
Principal Cast: Daniele Bertolucci, Myra Ford, Basil
Pruveneers, Edward Aczel, Cathy Walker
Production Manager: Garry Frost
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
New Deer National Film and Television National Film and Television
c/o Peter Millard School School
hellopetermillard@gmail.com Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios
141 Station Rd 141 Station Rd
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield
HP9 1LG HP9 1LG
+44 (0)1494 671234 +44 (0)1494 671234
festivals2@nfts.co.uk festivals2@nfts.co.uk
www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk
16 SHORT ANIMATIONFishboy The Flood is Coming
Synopsis Synopsis
A surrealist tale about the all-encompassing nature of living A forest hermit tries to prepare for a flood, but he becomes
with guilt. distracted by his noisy neighbour – who happens to be the
hermit’s left eye. A film exploring the growing anxiety about
Details the state of nature, and our place in it.
Year: 2018 Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film
Running Time: 8 mins 42 secs Festival 2019 - Lab Competition
Director: Anita Bruvere Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Producer: Shereen Ali Festival 2019 - Short Film Competition
Executive Producer: National Film and Television School
Editor: Tine Lykke Jensen Details
Screenwriter: Bethe Townsend Year: 2018
Director of Photography: Bertrand Rocourt Running Time: 8 mins 56 secs
Production Designer: Alice La Trobe Director: Gabriel Böhmer
Sound: Breen Turner Producer: Samantha Monk
Music: Seymour Milton Screenwriter: Gabriel Böhmer
Principal Cast: Hugh Skinner; Emily Taaffe Music: Nacho Palacios
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
National Film and Television National Film and Television Samantha Monk
School School samantha@thingsbygabriel.com
Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios
141 Station Rd 141 Station Rd
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield
HP9 1LG HP9 1LG
+44 (0)1494 671234 +44 (0)1494 671234
festivals2@nfts.co.uk festivals2@nfts.co.uk
www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 17The Flounder Good Intentions
Synopsis Synopsis
One day a humble fisherman catches an enchanted fish. After a young woman is responsible for a hit and run, strange
Can the fish help him, and his wife improve their lot? The and spooky things start to happen... A small thriller about
Flounder is an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm tale ‘The people that are not always the best at making decisions.
Fisherman and his Wife’, with painted animation by Elizabeth
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Cult Strand
Hobbs and an original score by composer Carola Bauckholt.
- World premiere
Details
Details
Year: 2019
Year: 2018
Running Time: 6 mins 24 secs
Running Time: 8 mins
Director: Elizabeth Hobbs
Director: Anna Mantzaris
Producer: Abigail Addison
Producer: Royal College of Art
Music: Carola Bauckholt
Co-Producer: Hugo Vieites Caamano
Commissioners: Klangforum Wien
Screenwriter: Anna Mantzaris, Hugo Vieites Caamano
Film Image: © Elizabeth Hobbs 2018
Director of Photography: Donna Wade
Production Designer: Anna Mantzaris, Hetty Bax
Sound: André Parklind
Music: Phil Brookes
Animation: Tim Allen, Anna Mantzaris, Quentin Haberham,
Tobias Fouracre
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Animate Projects Animate Projects Royal College of Art Some Shorts (Festival bookings)
Abigail Addison Abigail Addison Suzanne Buchan Wouter Jansen
45 Empress Road 45 Empress Road suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk info@someshorts.com
Derby Derby animation@rca.ac.uk www.someshorts.com
DE23 6TD DE23 6TD
Anna Mantzaris Royal College of Art
abigail@animateprojects.org abigail@animateprojects.org
anna.mantzaris@gmail.com Suzanne Buchan
www.animateprojects.org www.animateprojects.org
www.annamantzaris.se suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk
animation@rca.ac.uk
Anna Mantzaris
anna.mantzaris@gmail.com
www.annamantzaris.se
18 SHORT ANIMATIONThe Green and Pleasant Land GWR “Five and The Missing
Jewels”
Synopsis Synopsis
A chorus of internet comments draws a ‘live’ animation Enid Blyton’s Famous Five embark on an unexpected
portrait of Britain, in all its pastoral glory. The disconnect adventure across the GWR (Great Western Railway) network
between patriotic, sentimental perceptions and reality builds in pursuit of a dastardly villain.
an incongruous vision. The film’s script draws directly on
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
user comments found below videos and online newspaper
Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition
articles concerning the British countryside.
Official Selection Sheffield Doc Fest 2018 - New UK Shorts - Details
World premiere Year: 2018
Official Selection DOK Leipzig 2018 - International Running Time: 1 min
Programme - International premiere Director: Pete Candeland
Official Selection Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018 - Artist Producer: Sian Jenkins, Adriana Wong
Film Programme Executive Producer: Belinda Blacklock, Ryan Goodwin-Smith
Editor: Brian Raess
Details Sound: Sam Ashwell, Mark Hellaby, Mary-Ann D’Cruz,
Year: 2017 Tom Stanford
Running Time: 13 mins 31 secs Artistic Direction: Matt Woolner, Steve Wioland
Director: Max Colson Animation: Paul Tempelman, Steve Beck
Producer: Max Colson Storyboard Artist: Yohann Auroux
Executive Producer: Max Colson Commissioned by: GWR (Great Western Railway)
Editor: Max Colson
Screenwriter: Max Colson
Director of Photography: Max Colson
Production Designer: Max Colson
Music: Kevin MacLeod
Principal Cast: Matt Abbott, Cato Hoeben,
Donna Louise Bryan, Sandra Pearlmutter
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Max Colson Film and Video Max Colson Film and Video Friends Electric
Max Colson Max Colson 1st Floor
23 Knowlton House 23 Knowlton House 13-14 Margaret Street
Cowley Road Cowley Road London
London London W1W 8RN
SW9 6HJ SW9 6HJ +44 (0)20 7636 5317
+44 (0)7817 877639 +44 (0)7817 877639 info@friendselectric.tv
maxdfcolson@gmail.com maxdfcolson@gmail.com www.friendselectric.tv
SHORT ANIMATION 19Happiness Happy Ending
Synopsis Synopsis
The story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for happiness and A poetic documentary animation based on an anonymous
fulfillment. A brilliant analogy to ‘Life on Earth’. online testimony of a Korean prostitute, exploring what it is
like to be the subject of other people’s pleasure.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Film
Competition - Winner, CANAL+ Creative Aid Award Official Selection Animafest Zagreb World Festival of
Animated Film 2019 - Student Film Competition
Details Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Year: 2017 Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition
Running Time: 5 mins
Director: Steve Cutts Details
Producer: Steve Cutts Year: 2018
Screenwriter: Steve Cutts Running Time: 4 mins 45 secs
Music: Kevin MacLeod Director: EunJu Ara Choi
Animation: Steve Cutts Producer: EunJu Ara Choi
Editor: Sean Koo, EunJu Ara Choi
Screenwriter: EunJu Ara Choi
Sound: Benjamin Goddall
Music: Rachel Philip
Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Yuna Shin
Animation: EunJu Ara Choi, Ansso An
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Steve Cutts Royal College of Art Royal College of Art
info@stevecutts.com Suzanne Buchan Suzanne Buchan
www.stevecutts.com Kensington Gore Kensington Gore
London London
SW7 2EU SW7 2EU
suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk
animation@rca.ac.uk animation@rca.ac.uk
www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk
20 SHORT ANIMATIONHeatwave I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In
My Shadow
Synopsis Synopsis
In the midst of a searing heatwave, two little children find a A short essay film by artist animator, Jessica Ashman. Using
way to cool everyone down. animation and recorded interviews of eight other women of
colour artists, the film explores navigating the visual art and
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
animation world as a black face in a white space.
Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition
Details
Details Year: 2017
Year: 2019 Running Time: 5 mins 20 secs
Running Time: 7 mins 14 secs Director: Jessica Ashman
Director: Fokion Xenos Producer: Tega Okiti
Producer: Priya K. Dosanjh Editor: Jessica Ashman
Editor: Stella Heath Keir Screenwriter: Jessica Ashman
Screenwriter: Fokion Xenos Director of Photography: Jessica Ashman
Director of Photography: Brendan Freedman Sound: Seb Bruen
Production Designer: Antonio Niculae Music: Seb Bruen
Sound: Kevin Langhamer Principal Cast: Featuring the words and voices of artists:
Music: Andreas Gutuen Aaser Annlin Chao, Ng’endo Mukii, Maybelle Peters, Jessica Knights,
Airelle Ray, Suraya Raja
Project Assistants: Jonathan Long, Leni Kauffman,
Jen Hanlon, Sameer Shastri
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
National Film and Television National Film and Television Supported by Animate Projects,
School School Jerwood Charitable Foundation
Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios and Arts Council England
141 Station Rd 141 Station Rd
Jessica Ashman
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield
+44 (0)7791 213 789
HP9 1LG HP9 1LG
hello@jessla.co.uk
+44 (0)1494 671234 +44 (0)1494 671234
www.jessicaashman.com
festivals2@nfts.co.uk festivals2@nfts.co.uk
www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 21I’m OK Inanimate
Synopsis Synopsis
Following the end of a stormy love affair, Expressionist Katrine leads an ordinary life with a regular job and a happy
artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the First World War. After relationship until one day she wakes up and begins to see
suffering serious injuries in battle, he experiences a series of her world for what it really is.
memories and visions as medics transport him through the Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2018 - Cinéfondation -
forests of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, this film World premiere
explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma. Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Film Films Competition
Competition
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Details
Festival 2019 - International Competition Year: 2018
Running Time: 8 mins 30 secs
BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British Short
Director: Lucia Bulgheroni
Animation
Producer: Lennard Ortmann
Editor: Raphael Pereira
Details
Screenwriter: Andrew Eu (writer), Jonty Dawson (script
Year: 2018
development), Lucia Bulgheroni (story)
Running Time: 6 mins
Director of Photography: Ronnie McQuillan
Director: Elizabeth Hobbs
Production Designer: Kristina Kovacs
Producer: Abigail Addison (Animate Projects)
Sound: Louise Burton
Co-Producer: Jelena Popovic (National Film Board of
Music: Jose Pavli
Canada)
Principal Cast: Erin Austen, Jay Taylor, Jassa Ahluwalia
Executive Producer: Gary Thomas (Animate Projects),
Animation: Lucia Bulgheroni
Michael Fukushima (National Film Board of Canada)
Sound: Sacha Ratcliffe
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
UK, Canada co-production National Film Board of Canada National Film and Television National Film and Television
P.O. Box 6100 School School (Festivals worldwide
An Animate Projects (UK),
Station Centre-ville Beaconsfield Studios excluding Italy) Beaconsfield
Elizabeth Hobbs (UK) and the
Montreal 141 Station Rd Studios
National Film Board of Canada
Quebec, H3C 3H5 Beaconsfield 141 Station Rd
(CA) coproduction
Canada HP9 1LG Beaconsfield
Animate Projects distribution@nfb.ca +44 (0)1494 671234 HP9 1LG
Abigail Addison www.nfb.ca festivals2@nfts.co.uk +44 (0)1494 671234
45 Empress Road www.nfts.co.uk festivals2@nfts.co.uk
Derby www.nfts.co.uk
DE23 6TD
Zen Movie (Festivals, Italy)
abigail@animateprojects.org
distribuzione.zenmovie@gmail.com
www.animateprojects.org
www.zenmovie.it
22 SHORT ANIMATIONJanet, Who Fell From the Sea Konfessions of a
Klabautermann
Synopsis Synopsis
A girl is drawn into the sea, following the sound of an A video collage comprising multiple threads loosely
ethereal bell. She falls into an underwater town, haunted anchored around male maritime coming-of-age rites.
by the ghosts of unfinished stories. Based on the legend Hardeep Pandhal raps to a score composed with Joe Howe
of the drowned town of Dunwich, off the coast of England, as we are dragged through a cartoon world marked by
the film explores the liminal spaces between adulthood and male fears of floods, bordering between the homely and
childhood, dream and reality, as she falls from one story to the gratuitous.
the next, seeking the source of the bell, to finally ring it for
herself. Details
Year: 2017
Details Running Time: 12 mins 22 secs
Year: 2018 Director: Hardeep Pandhal
Running Time: 5 mins 13 secs Editor: Hardeep Pandhal
Director: Isabel Greenberg Screenwriter: Hardeep Pandhal
Screenwriter: Isabel Greenberg Sound: Hardeep Pandhal, Joe Howe
Production Designer: Isabel Greenberg Principal Cast: Hardeep Pandhal, David Steans
Sound: Edward A Guy Animation: Hardeep Pandhal
Music: Thomas Ross Fitzsimmons
Production Company Production Company
Isabel Greenberg Commissioned by Berwick Film
Isabelgreenberg@gmail.com and Media Arts Festival.
www.isabelgreenberg.co.uk Production supported by Arts
Council England, National Theatre
of Scotland
Hardeep Pandhal
hardeeppandhal@gmail.com
SHORT ANIMATION 23Live a Little Lotte Reiniger: The Unsung
Heroine of Early Animation
Synopsis Synopsis
Acting a fool convinced you’re a queen. Live a Little taps into Lotte Reiniger pioneered early animation, yet her name
the pressures and the amounts of self-control that go into remains largely unknown. This film celebrates her life and
being a ”good woman” in a patriarchal society by celebrating work, and offers reflections on why she never received the
women who decide to not care. recognition she deserves.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Festival 2019 - Short Film Competition Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2018
Running Time: 3 mins 43 secs Running Time: 2 mins 51 secs
Director: Jenny Jokela Director: Anna Humphries
Producer: Jenny Jokela, Celia Hillo Producer: Jonathan Lawrence
Editor: Jenny Jokela Music: Alex Harwood
Screenwriter: Celia Hillo Production Commissioned by: BBC - Part of Studio Panda’s online series
Designer: Jenny Jokela of animations Forgotten Females which celebrates different
Sound: Jenny Jokela, Adam Woodhams women who have been marginalised or written out of
Principal Cast: Emilie Loiseleur history.
Production Company Production Company
UK, Finland co-production Studio Panda
Jenny Jokela 12 Great George Street
+44 (0)7818 169097 Bristol
jokelajenny@gmail.com BS1 5RH
www.jennyjokela.com +44 (0)117 3300798
info@studiopanda.uk
www.studiopanda.uk
24 SHORT ANIMATIONMarfa Maybe It’s Me
Synopsis Synopsis
A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out of time. A With a voiceover that goes back in time, and digitally
desert where strange lights dance in the night sky. A mecca rendered images of a warm Greek summer, the director
for lovers of minimalist art. A landscape of lost horses, freaks transports us to his childhood and remembers his
and food trucks. And then there’s the giant lemon. relationship with his grandfather. In trying to recreate his
childhood memories the filmmaker creates a moving film
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - World
about the power of memories and the relationships that
premiere
have touched us the most.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018 -
Festival 2019 - Lab Competition
International premiere
BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Nominated, Best British Short
Animation Details
Year: 2017
Details Running Time: 6 mins 8 secs
Year: 2017 Director: Dimitris Simou
Running Time: 8 mins 22 secs Producer: Dimitris Simou
Director: The Brothers McLeod Editor: Dimitris Simou
Producer: The Brothers McLeod Screenwriter: Dimitris Simou
Editor: Greg McLeod Sound: Zhe Wu
Screenwriter: The Brothers McLeod Animation: Dimitris Simou
Sound: Tom Angell
Original Title: Ίσως είμαι εγώ
Music: Tom Angell
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
The Brothers McLeod The Brothers McLeod Dimitris Simou Dimitris Simou
2nd Floor 2nd Floor dsimou@gmail.com dsimou@gmail.com
46 Rother Street 46 Rother Street www.dimitrissimou.com www.dimitrissimou.com
Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire Warwickshire
CV37 6LT CV37 6LT
www.brothersmcleod.co.uk www.brothersmcleod.co.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 25Meteorlight The Missing Pig
Synopsis Synopsis
In a world where light powers everything, a curious child is A mysterious pig disappearance brings chaos to a small
finally allowed to visit the factory that their parent owns. But town.
the dark secret they uncover inside this factory threatens to
tear their whole world apart. Now, they must make a choice Details
between family, or the life of another... Year: 2018
Running Time: 4 mins 4 secs
Details Director: Cecilia Corzo
Year: 2018 Sound: Ines Alves
Running Time: 9 mins 50 secs Additional Colouring: Kyle Peyton, Pete Thitham
Director: Jonny Eveson
Screenwriter: Jonny Eveson
Sound: Helen Dickson
Music: Blair Mowat
Language Design: Lindsey Williams
Vocal Design: Patch Morrison
Animator: Jonny Eveson
Production Company Production Company
Wingspan Productions Cecilia Corzo
Deborah Lee ceciliaxcorzo@gmail.com
5 Spectrum House
32-34 Gordon House Road
London
NW5 1LP
+44 (0)20 7428 8700
debbie@wingspanproductions.co. uk
www.wingspanproductions.co.uk
26 SHORT ANIMATIONMy Best Friend Rewinds My Mother’s Eyes
Synopsis Synopsis
Two reflexive animated characters cling to sanity inside the A story about motherhood and loss in an abstracted world
changing parameters of their world. of childhood memory.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition Winner: Shorts Animation Award Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2018
Running Time: 1 min 21 secs Running Time: 4 mins 39 secs
Director: Will Anderson, Ainslie Henderson Director: Jenny Wright
Producer: Adult Swim Producer: Jenny Wright
Sound: Keith Duncan Co-Producer: Jenny Wright
Commissioned by: Adult Swim Executive Producer: Jenny Wright
Editor: Jenny Wright
Screenwriter: Jenny Wright
Sound Design: Ben Goodall
Music: Matt Huxley
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Will Anderson and Ainslie Wanderson Jenny Wright Jenny Wright
Henderson Will Anderson jennywright100@gmail.com jennywright100@gmail.com
c/o Wanderson will@wanderson.co.uk www.hellojennywright.com www.hellojennywright.com
will@wanderson.co.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 27My Mother’s Stew O Hunter Heart
Synopsis Synopsis
A young woman visits home and just as she’s about to ring Nature and domesticity collide as falling in love forces the
the bell, the aroma of food evokes a powerful memory which hidden animal instincts of humans to rise to the surface.
takes her back to her childhood and it also reminds her of This poetic narrative features fragments of documentary
her fabricated past. interviews recorded around the UK, woven into an evocative
soundtrack.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 -
World premiere
Details
Year: 2018
Details
Running Time: 7 mins 7 secs
Year: 2017
Director: Carla MacKinnon
Running Time: 5 mins
Producer: Carla MacKinnon, Christian Schlaeffer,
Director: Sade Adeniran
Sammy Wong
Producer: Sade Adeniran
Executive Producer: Helen Brunsdon, Gillian Scothern,
Editor: Sade Adeniran
Deborah Lee, Emma Cahusac
Principal Cast: Adelo Oni
Screenwriter: Carla MacKinnon, Christopher Andrews
Production Designer: Emma Neimis; Puppet Design and
Fabrication: Marika Aakala
Music: Hannah Peel
Technical and VFX Director: Christian Schlaeffer
Production Company Production Company
Sade Adeniran Wingspan Productions
www.sades-world.com 5 Spectrum House
32-34 Gordon House Road
London
NW5 1LP
+44 (0)20 7428 8700
www.wingspanproductions.co.uk
28 SHORT ANIMATIONOh No Pedro Plankton
Synopsis Synopsis
A story of a young man who has lost his words, his thoughts, As different aquatic microorganisms engage in casual
and his gender identity. Those eyes are always sharp as conversations, we get a glimpse of the ideas and aspirations
knives, yet the secret inside him is no longer hidden, waiting that float around at the bottom of the food chain.
to be free by himself.
Details
Details Year: 2018
Year: 2017 Running Time: 5 mins 12 secs
Running Time: 3 mins 11 secs Director: Gustaf Lindström
Director: Annlin Chao Producer: Gustaf Lindström
Producer: Annlin Chao Screenwriter: Gustaf Lindström
Editor: Chia-Hung Lin Director of Photography: Daniel Jaroschik
Screenwriter: Annlin Chao Sound: Julia Rakel
Director of Photography: Zoran Veljkovic Music: Julia Rakel
Production Designer: Annlin Chao Principal Cast: Will Hislop, David Elms, Barney Fishwick,
Sound: Tom Rosenthal Gustaf Lindström, David O’Neill, Eleanor White, Baker Terry
Music: Tom Rosenthal
Principal Cast: Alistair Wroe Choreographer: Alistair Wroe
Costume Designer: Tsai-Chun Huang
Production Company Production Company
Annlin Chao Film Studio Gustaf Lindström
Annlin Chao +44 (0)7424 443683
annlin@annlinchao.com gustaf.lindstrom@gmail.com
www.annlinchao.com
SHORT ANIMATION 29Quarantine Red
Synopsis Synopsis
A post-Brexit pagan dance fantasy about a troupe of Morris Traditional Chinese art forms including ink wash painting and
dancing badgers trying to avoid the animal quarantine ceramics are used to represent and rethink Red China.
compound which has been built above their burrow. But Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
when tragedy strikes, a young badger goes rogue and forges Festival 2019 - Perspectives Short Film Competition
a forbidden friendship on the other side of the bars.
Details
Details Year: 2019
Year: 2018 Running Time: 3 mins
Running Time: 12 mins 55 secs Director: Ao Chen
Director: Astrid Goldsmith Producer: Ao Chen
Producer: Jo Nolan Editor: Ao Chen
Executive Producer: Deborah Lee (Wingspan), Screenwriter: Ao Chen
Emma Cahusac (BBC) Music: Ao Chen
Editor: Anna Dick Animation: Ao Chen, Fei Chen
Screenwriter: Astrid Goldsmith
Director of Photography: Astrid Goldsmith
Production Designer: Astrid Goldsmith
Sound: Neil Herd
Music: Craig Gell
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent
Mock Duck Studios China, UK co-production Ao Chen
info@mockduck.co.uk +44 (0)7864 964251
www.mockduck.co.uk Red Feather Animation Studio
chenao92211@outlook.com
Ao Chen
Screen South +44 (0)7864 964251
The Wedge chenao92211@outlook.com
75-81 Tontine Street
Folkestone
CT20 1JR
jo.nolan@screensouth.org
www.screensouth.org
30 SHORT ANIMATIONRed Dress. No Straps. The Redness of Red
Synopsis Synopsis
1985. Tehran. Iran-Iraq war. For Marmar it is another ordinary A short animated documentary about what it means to be
afternoon at the grandparents’. The echo of “Death to conscious in a world that is becoming increasingly artificially
America” chants from the morning school assembly mixes intelligent; using hand drawn techniques to explore the
with ‘The voice of America’; grandad’s favourite radio human tendency to anthropomorphise simple drawings, and
programme. Marmar is waiting for granny to make her a how we might do the same to machines.
dress exactly the same as the glamorous American popstar; Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Bright red. No straps. Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2018
Running Time: 8 mins 23 secs Running Time: 3 mins 19 secs
Director: Maryam Mohajer Director: Emily Downe
Producer: Maryam Mohajer Producer: Emily Downe
Editor: Maryam Mohajer Co-Producer: Royal College of Art
Screenwriter: Maryam Mohajer Editor: Emily Downe
Production Designer: Maryam Mohajer Production Designer: Emily Downe
Sound: Maryam Mohajer, Fonic Sound: Emily Downe, Iannis Spanos, Jan Willem de With
Music: Tanera Dawkins Music: Jan Willem de With
Principal Cast: Maya Naraghi, Arash Ashtiani, Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Annabelle Broad, Daniel Earl
Manouchehr Naraghi
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Maryam Mohajer Maryam Mohajer Royal College of Art Royal College of Art
mmplondon@yahoo.co.uk mmplondon@yahoo.co.uk Suzanne Buchan Suzanne Buchan
Kensington Gore Kensington Gore
London London
SW7 2EU SW7 2EU
suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk suzanne.buchan@rca.ac.uk
animation@rca.ac.uk animation@rca.ac.uk
www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk
Emily Downe
e.emilydowne@gmail.com
SHORT ANIMATION 31Ride Roadkill
Synopsis Synopsis
Hundreds of motorbikes are animated frame by frame in this A stop-motion animated thriller set in a world where deer
homage to the iconic motorcycle design and culture of the are the dominant species. An alpha male deer goes for an
1950s and 60s. A rider prepares his bike and departs on an evening car ride and has an unfortunate accident, triggering
idealised journey into the countryside and into the future. a chain of events with dire consequences for the victim.
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Film Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Cinéfondation -
Competition - World premiere World premiere
Details Details
Year: 2018 Year: 2019
Running Time: 5 mins 40 secs Running Time: 7 mins 48 secs
Director: Direction and Animation: Paul Bush; Dragonframe Director: Leszek Mozga
Animation: Tânia Duarte Producer: Leszek Mozga
Producer: Paul Bush, Abi Feijo Editor: Leszek Mozga
Executive Producer: Phil Davies Screenwriter: Leszek Mozga
Editor: Paul Bush Director of Photography: Leszek Mozga
Screenwriter: Paul Bush Production Designer: Leszek Mozga
Director of Photography: Manuel Pinto Barros Sound: Sound Design: Leszek Mozga; Sound Technician:
Production Designer: Nuno Guedes Stefano Luongo
Sound: Andy Cowton Music: Marshall Smith
Music: Conjunto Típico do Val Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Leszek Mozga, Anna Mason,
Principal Cast: Bernardo Santo Tirso, João Cardoso Alicja Mozga Art Direction: Alicja Mozga
Photographed By: Ícaro Pintor, Paul Bush Animation: Leszek Mozga
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
UK, Portugal coproduction Agência - Curtas Metragens / University of The Arts London University of The Arts London
Portuguese Short Film Agency London College of London College of
Ancient Mariner Productions (UK),
Auditório Municipal Pr Republica Communication Communication
Ciclope Filmes (PT)
4480-715 Vila do Conde Mary Davies Mary Davies
Ancient Mariner Productions Ltd Portugal mary.davies@lcc.arts.ac.uk mary.davies@lcc.arts.ac.uk
www.paulbushfilms.com/ancient- +351 252 646683 www.arts.ac.uk/lcc www.arts.ac.uk/lcc
mariner.html agencia@curtas.pt
www.curtas.pt Leszek Mozga
+44 (0)775 6110 715
leszek.mozga@gmail.com
32 SHORT ANIMATIONRobot Memoir Roughhouse
Synopsis Synopsis
Robot Memoir is the latest film in an ongoing collaborative Three friends embark on a new adventure in a strange town,
project between animator Edwin Rostron and musician/ but when a manipulative new member joins their gang their
writer Supreme Vagabond Craftsman. loyalty is torn apart with terrifying consequences.
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film
Details Festival 2019
Year: 2018 BAFTA Film Awards 2019 - Winner, Best British Short
Running Time: 7 mins 24 secs Animation
Director: Edwin Rostron
Producer: Edwin Rostron Details
Music: Supreme Vagabond Craftsman Year: 2018
Animation: Edwin Rostron Running Time: 15 mins 30 secs
Director: Jonathan Hodgson
Producer: Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Den Boom
Co-Producer: Richard Van Den Boom
Executive Producer: Richard Van Den Boom
Editor: Zurine Ainz, Robert Bradbrook
Screenwriter: Jonathan Hodgson
Production Designer: Jonathan Hodgson
Sound: Yan Volsy
Music: Stuart Hilton
Principal Cast: Stuart Ash, Greg Haworth, Sam Malley,
Jordan Taylor; Narration: Steven Camden
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
Supported by Jerwood Charitable Edwin Rostron UK, France coproduction Papy3D Productions
Foundation edwinrostron@gmail.com 43 Boulevard Auguste Blanqui
www.edwinrostron.net Hodgson Films (UK), Papy3D
Edwin Rostron 75013 Paris
Productions (FR)
edwinrostron@gmail.com France
www.edwinrostron.net Hodgson Films Ltd www.papy3d.com/html/en/
Jonathan Hodgson
jonathan@hodgsonfilms.com
hodgsonfilms.tumblr.com
SHORT ANIMATION 33Selfridges “Selfridges and Slug Life
Sustainability”
Synopsis Synopsis
Celebrating sustainability within iconic department store We follow a day in the life of Tanya, a curious woman who
Selfridges. Staff were interviewed, from Selfridges’ shop has developed a taste for non-human lovers. This time her
floor through to headquarters, to capture the range of work bedroom experiments result in the creation of a beautiful
and efforts made throughout the company in the name giant slug. Has she finally found the formula for total
of sustainability. The interviews are accompanied by hand perfection? If so, can such a thing survive in this gnarly world
drawn animations. full of freaks and beefs?
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Official Selection SXSW 2019 - Animated Shorts Competition
Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition
Details
Details Year: 2018
Year: 2018 Running Time: 6 mins 30 secs
Running Time: 2 mins 33 secs Director: Sophie Koko Gate
Director: Hannah Jacobs, Anna Ginsburg Producer: Sophie Koko Gate
Producer: Zoe Muslim Executive Producer: Emma Cahusac, Deborah Lee,
Sound: Father Gillian Scothern
Animation: Anna Ginsburg, Hannah Jacobs, Matt Lloyd, Editor: Sophie Koko Gate
Rhys Byfield, Caitlin McCarthy, Hannah McNally Screenwriter: Sophie Koko Gate
Commissioned by: Selfridges Sound: Skillbard
Music: Jonny Wildey; Theremin: Sveinbjorn Thoraensen;
‘Marcy’s Song’: Skillbard
Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Jeanette Bonds, Tom Scotcher,
Vincent Oliver, Sophie Koko Gate
Animation: Sophie Koko Gate
Co-Animator: Anne-Lou Eramber
Co-Storyboard Artist and Additional Design: Bridget Meyne
Animation Executive: Helen Brunsdon
Production Company Production Company
Strange Beast A Sophie Koko Gate production
33-34 Rathbone Place with support of BBC, BFI and
London Wingspan Productions
W1T 1JN
+44 (0)20 7462 0333 Sophie Koko Gate
info@strangebeast.tv sophiekokogate@gmail.com
www.strangebeast.tv
34 SHORT ANIMATIONSolar Plexus Take Rabbit
Synopsis Synopsis
Noah battles to overcome his grief at the death of his A skewed take on an age-old conundrum. A man attempts
mother, a journey that takes him from his flat to beyond the to transport some unlikely passengers across a river in his
stars. An animation in stop-motion and oil paint. tiny boat, but soon realizes he’s taken on more than he
bargained for.
Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2019 - Cinéfondation -
International premiere
Details
Year: 2017
Details
Running Time: 15 mins 29 secs
Year: 2019
Director: Peter Peake
Running Time: 8 mins 53 secs
Producer: Gareth Owen, Peter Peake
Director: David McShane
Editor: Peter Peake
Producer: Paida Mutonono
Screenwriter: Peter Peake
Co-Producer: The National Film and Television School
Production Designer: Peter Peake
Editor: Francesco Cibati
Sound: Will Norie
Screenwriter: Jessica Sinyard
Music: Alex Lupo
Director of Photography: Lily Grimes
Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Matt Berry, Amelia Bullmore,
Production Designer: Qingling Zhang
Stephen Graham, Steve Pemberton
Sound: Ines Adriana
Script Editor: Al Wyatt
Music: Will Turner
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
National Film and Television National Film and Television Peter Peake Peter Peake
School School peterpeake@gmail.com peterpeake@gmail.com
Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios
141 Station Rd 141 Station Rd
Beaconsfield Beaconsfield
HP9 1LG HP9 1LG
+44 (0)1494 671234 +44 (0)1494 671234
festivals2@nfts.co.uk festivals2@nfts.co.uk
www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 35These Things in My Head True North
- Side A
Synopsis Synopsis
A fully hand drawn and painted visualisation of the daily On the long journey home, a fisherman comes upon the
thoughts and worries on my mind as they interlink with the wreckage of a ship and rescues a small boy that he finds
playful sounds of a record to conjure a new journey based asleep in a barrel. As a mysterious storm descends, he senses
somewhere underneath actual events. the arrival of a sinister presence.
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
Details
Festival 2019 - Graduation Short Film Competition
Year: 2017
Running Time: 7 mins 55 secs
Details
Director: George Bowler
Year: 2018
Producer: Nathan Craig
Running Time: 10 mins 50 secs
Executive Producer: NFTS
Director: Luke Bourne
Editor: Martín Amezaga
Producer: Birmingham City University
Screenwriter: Shane Crowley
Editor: Luke Bourne
Director of Photography: Adam Barnett
Screenwriter: Luke Bourne
Production Designer: Damián Galán Álvarez
Animation: Luke Bourne
Sound: Pete Gummerson
Music: Louis Dodd
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent
BCU - Birmingham City University Luke Bourne National Film and Television National Film and Television
School of Visual Communication SHADDYCACK@hotmail.com School School
+44 (0)121 331 5830 Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios
admviscom@bcu.ac.uk 141 Station Rd 141 Station Rd
www.bcu.ac.uk Beaconsfield Beaconsfield
Luke Bourne HP9 1LG HP9 1LG
SHADDYCACK@hotmail.com +44 (0)1494 671234 +44 (0)1494 671234
festivals2@nfts.co.uk festivals2@nfts.co.uk
www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk
36 SHORT ANIMATIONTrump Dreams Via
Synopsis Synopsis
An animation based on images, words and ideas taken from Telling the journey of life through epic, beautiful
dreams about Donald Trump from people around the world. environments and character animation. Showing how we
should open our eyes to the good things that happen every
Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Films
day, to the experiences we share with the people we love,
Perspectives Competition
and that we should find the silver linings, or the lessons to
be learnt, in even the lowest times.
Details
Year: 2017
Details
Running Time: 3 mins 48 secs
Year: 2018
Director: Ruth Lingford
Running Time: 3 mins
Producer: Ruth Lingford
Director: Izzy Burton
Editor: Ruth Lingford
Producer: Tom Box
Sound: George Lingford
Screenwriter: Rachel Cladingbowl
Principal Cast: With the voices of: David Lobser, Catharine
Music: Vince Webb
Thiemann, Demane Davies, Rachel Gila, Aurora Andrews,
Animation: Izzy Burton
Guy Maddin, Ruth Lingford, Walter Berry, Bryan Papciak,
Chris Landreth
Animation: Ruth Lingford
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Ruth Lingford Jane Colling Izzy Burton
lingford@fas.harvard.edu jane@janecolling.co.uk www.izzyburton.co.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 37Vitello - Vitello Gets a Yucky Welcome to Banoni City - Nya
Girlfriend Escapes Being Married too Early
Synopsis Synopsis
Vitello lives in a terraced house by a ring road with his mum, A series of animations seeking to defy gender stereotypes
where the traffic is noisy and his friends are annoying. He in West Africa. Following the story of Nya, a young woman
has plenty of adventures and gets into a lot of scrapes too. from West Africa who dreams of a better life.
Featured episode Vitello Gets a Yucky Girlfriend – Vitello Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film
doesn’t play with girls. Kamma, his new neighbour, is Festival 2019 - Commissioned Films Competition
definitely a girl. Kamma says she has a crazy hamster. Vitello
really wants to see a crazy hamster, but then all of sudden Details
Kamma kisses him. Year: 2018
Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Running Time: 1 min 8 secs
Festival 2019 - TV Films Competition Director: Angelin Paul
Producer: Cecilia Hue, Radha Chakraborty (Development
Details Media International)
Year: 2018 Screenwriter: Marguerite Abouet (script), Sandrine Sekulak
Running Time: 7 mins 10 secs (storyboard)
Director: Dorte Bengtson Animation: GHWA Productions
Producer: Anders Berthelsen, Bob Last Commissioned for: UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund)
Executive Producer: Charlotte Pedersen Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend
Editor: Dorte Bengtson, Bobbie Esra Geelmuyden Pertan (SWEDD) programme
Screenwriter: Kim Fupz Aakeson (screenplay), Dorte Original Title: Bienvenue à Banoni City - Nya échappe au
Bengtson (screenplay), Ida Mule Scott (writer) mariage précoce
Music: Philippe Boix-Vives
Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Samuel Søby Bang, Sidse Babett
Knudsen, Eliya Coco Bülow
Transmission Format Details: Vitello series comprises
of 13 episodes
Episode Original Title: Vitello får en klam kæreste
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company
Denmark, UK co-production TrustNordisk Ivory Coast, France, UK
Filmbyen 22 co-production
JA Film (DK), FilmFun (DK),
2650 Hvidovre
Zentropa Entertainments GHWA Productions (FR),
Denmark
(DK), Creative Scotland (UK), Ellipsanime Productions (FR),
+45 3686 8788
SellOutPictures (UK) Development Media International
info@trustnordisk.com
(UK)
SellOutPictures www.trustnordisk.com
Box 12 Development Media International
196 Rose Street Unit R
Edinburgh Reliance Wharf
EH2 4AT Hertford Road
+44 (0)7973 163928 London
animation@selloutpictures.com N1 5EW
www.selloutpictures.com +44 (0)20 3058 1630
info@developmentmedia.net
www.developmentmedia.net
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