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  • McLaren Award and International Animation programme selections

    I am pleased to share the animations I had selected earlier this year for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2020. If the world hadn’t gone into meltdown I’m sure I’d have had a brilliant time sharing these shorts and speaking to their makers at the Filmhouse. These are some really remarkable films – congratulations to all!…

    02/09/2020
  • Entropia by Flora Anna Buda

    FEMALE FIGURES – To Boldly Go…

    For the third edition of Female Figures at London International Animation Festival, our gaze has landed on women making science fiction inspired, animated shorts. In this selection, these intrepid animators from across the planet imagine brave new worlds whilst placing women at the heart of their speculative stories. Given the tumultuous times we find ourselves…

    05/12/2019
  • Ursa Minor, Yearin Lee

    Female Figures

    It’s almost time for the third edition of Female Figures at London International Animation Festival. This year I am focusing my attention on women making science fiction inspired, animated shorts, given the popularity of this genre and recent discussions around Love, Death and Robots, which I’m not even going to start debating here but you…

    02/11/2019
  • Female Figures panel at LIAF 2018, Photo: Martin Pickles

    LIAF Q&As now online

    You can now watch the Q&As from the two events that I chaired at London International Animation Festival in December. First up is the post-screening discussion around AFTERMATH, a programme of animations about war, trauma, conflict and loss, co-curated with Elizabeth Hobbs. The speakers, whose wonderful films screened in the programme, were Maryam Mohajer, Emma…

    13/04/2019
  • how to make a ghost, Gabriela Escovar

    Female Figures returns to LIAF

    I am so thrilled to be bringing Female Figures back to London International Animation Festival for a second year in a programme that once again champions female animation talent in a programme of extraordinary works exploring female desire by contemporary animators and their predecessors. These stimulating works present a range of perspectives on the female…

    26/10/2018
  • Filipe Abranches

    AFTERMATH touring animation programme

    I have had the pleasure of co-curating AFTERMATH, a thematic animation programme with filmmaker Elizabeth Hobbs, who I co-produced I’m OK with (and the National Film Board of Canada). AFTERMATH is a programme of short animations exploring the Great War at its centenary, and themes of conflict and loss. The programme is inspired by I’m OK about…

    04/10/2018

  • I’m OK selected for OIAF

    After an exciting couple of screenings of Elizabeth Hobbs’ I’m OK at Annecy and Edinburgh festivals, it’s brilliant to now discover that the film has been selected for the official competition of Ottawa International Animation Festival 2018. This will be the North American premiere for the film, which is very fitting given that I’m OK was a co-production with the…

    07/07/2018

  • Edinburgh International Film Festival premieres

    I’m pleased as punch to share that two films I’ve been co-producing recently will be screening at Edinburgh International Film Festival in the same McLaren Award programme on Wednesday 27 June. Chris Shepherd’s Brexicuted will have its World premiere, and Elizabeth Hobbs’ I’m OK (pictured) will have its UK premiere. Both films are in competition for The McLaren Award for Best…

    23/05/2018

  • Female Figures Q&A video

    London International Animation Festival have recently posted online the Q&A from the Female Figures screening that took place at the festival in December 2017. The speakers are left to right: me, Dr Steve Henderson (editor & co-owner of Skwigly Online Magazine and founder & director of Manchester Animation Festival), Alys Scott Hawkins (artist and animated documentary…

    07/04/2018

  • Dance/Film: Experimental Approaches

    On 30 April I’ll be joining Curator Portland Green at Close-Up in Shoreditch, to discuss a range of approaches to dance in moving image genres such as experimental film, animation, dance for camera and artists’ moving image, exploring where dance has been a subject of enquiry, a subject of the image or a means of…

    30/03/2018

  • I’m OK to premiere at Annecy

    I am thrilled to share that I’m OK by artist Elizabeth Hobbs has been selected for the official competition at Annecy Festival 2018, which will be the film’s world premiere. I’m OK is one of 130 short films selected out of more than 3,000 entries. Director Elizabeth Hobbs and I have just finished the post…

    18/03/2018

  • Sea Change Weekend

    I am delighted to have been invited by Jen Skinner at Screen Argyll to participate in the Sea Change: Powering Women in Film Weekend, reflecting on the state of the industry alongside some exceptional women working in film today. Speakers include: Catharine Des Forges, Director of the Independent Cinema Office; Terry Wragg, founder of Leeds…

    27/01/2018

  • Animations at Leeds IFF

    Here are a few of the fantastic shorts that screened at the World Animation Competition at Leeds IFF earlier this month. Firstly the films the my co-jurors animators Alice Dunseath and Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara and I selected… Special mentions It would piss me off to die so yoooooung… by Filipe Abranches (Portugal)  “A stunning, hallucinatory animation filled with hand drawn…

    19/11/2017

  • Jury duty at Leeds IFF

    I am pleased to have been invited to be part of the Animation Jury at Leeds International Film Festival, and to assist with selecting the winner of their World Animation Award alongside animators Alice Dunseath and Anushka Kishani Naanayakkara. Across Leeds IFF’s three World Animation Competition programmes there are thirty animated shorts, half of which…

    28/10/2017

  • Astounding Animation at This Way Up

    British Council Film is presenting a series of short films programmes at the This Way Up film exhibitors’ conference on Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 November in Hull. Sharing the shorts in the wonderful Vintage Mobile Cinema. I have been assisting with the programming for this event, and have curated a selection of exceptional British animations that…

    19/10/2017

  • Watch Yours Faithfully on Vimeo on Demand

    Following its appearance at a brilliant sold out show at The Little Theatre in Leicester, the new 5 minute animation that I produced, Yours Faithfully Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)  is now available to rent on Vimeo on Demand. The film is based on playwright Joe Orton’s Edna Welthorpe letters and is directed by award-winning filmmaker Chris Shepherd,…

    10/08/2017

  • Yours Faithfully

    On Sunday 16 July Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) premiered at Latitude Festival in a special tribute to legendary playwright Joe Orton, with readings by Orton’s sister Leonie Orton, filmmaker Chris Shepherd, Dr Emma Parker from the University of Leicester and comedians John-Luke Roberts and Robin Ince. The film will  next be screened at The Little Theatre…

    18/07/2017

  • Sight & Sound’s Best Indie Animation of 2016

    A great to start 2017, as two projects that I have been immersed in for some time were selected for Sight & Sound’s best indie animation round-up. BFI National Archive Animation Curator Jez Stewart chose award-winning short Johnno’s Dead by Chris Shepherd as one of his five gems from 2016, and Animate Projects’ Silent Signal art &…

    14/01/2017

  • Ethel & Ernest in the digital age

    I have recently been working with production company Lupus Films on producing a website for their hand-drawn animated feature, Ethel & Ernest that is in cinemas across the UK from 28 October. The film brings to life the graphic novel of the same name, by British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs, that tells the story of his…

    28/10/2016

  • Silent Signal

    I am delighted to share that after seven months of R&D and 18 months of production, Silent Signal is now live! Silent Signal is an interdisciplinary arts project that I have been producing at Animate. It brings together six artists and six scientists to create animated artworks that explore cell biology, genetics, immunology and epidemiology.…

    08/02/2016