Abigail Addison is a Producer and Programmer. She is also a Director of Animate Projects, an agency that works at the intersection of animation, film and art. She specialises in realising successful and award-winning, short film, artists’ film, and animation projects. Her strengths lie in brokering successful partnerships, securing the right talent, and ensuring that thorough planning and preparation takes place.

Abigail co-produced BAFTA nominated I’m OK by Elizabeth Hobbs with the National Film Board of Canada, and produced the multi-award winning The Debutante with Elizabeth Hobbs, which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards and the European Film Awards. She recently produced the BFI Filmmaking Fund supported And Granny Would Dance with Maryam Mohajer and is in production on a BFI NETWORK supported short Statue in the Garden with Qianhui Yu.

Abigail has produced screening programmes and has led or participated in panel events for a host of organisations including the Austrian Culture Forum London, Underwire Festival, Japan Foundation, Vienna Shorts, and the London International Animation Festival, where she has curated the Figures in Focus programme since 2017. She has served on juries at Encounters Festival, Visegrad Animation Forum, London International Animation Festival, Anijam, The Smalls, Flatpack Festival, Animest, Linoleum Festival, Vienna Shorts, and BAFTA Scotland.

Abigail has also given presentations at the Royal College of Art’s Ecstatic Truth symposium, at Ars Electronica Festival’s Expanded Animation Symposium in Austria, and has run a masterclass with Don Hertzfeldt at Vienna Independent Shorts. She has contributed to several editions of the ANIDOX:LAB at The Animation Workshop in Denmark. She sometimes goes into Universities, including Royal College of Art, London College of Communication and Central Saint Martins, to talk to animation students about her work and to critique theirs.

Abigail was recently the Training and Development Producer for production company Lupus Films and the Animation Programmer for Edinburgh International Film Festival from 2020-2024. She previously produced projects for cultural organisations including CAMP Films, The Bureau, Forma Arts, CVAN South East, and the British Council.

She sits on the Advisory Board of Animation Alliance UK, and was previously a Trustee of film and photography charity Four Corners, and an advisor and shorts selector for Underwire Festival.

In 2024, she was invited to join the Short Films and Feature Animation branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.