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Edinburgh Film Festival 2021 screenings

The programme is now live for Edinburgh International Film Festival 2021, which takes place from 18-25 August. Check out the brochure here for all of the exceptional films that will be screening live and online including the Black Box experimental shorts curated by Kim Knowles ay Lydia Beilby, the fiction shorts curated by Jenny Clark,…

29/07/2021

Watch Nude Triumphant online

Leo Crane’s watercolour animation Nude Triumphant has it’s online launch on Skwigly Online Magazine – click here to watch the film. The film will feature as part of a special online life drawing event at Flatpack Festival on Friday 28 May – book your free place here. Nude Triumphant is produced by Animate Projects and Figuration with support…

26/05/2021

Chado longlisted for the BAFTAs

Exciting news! Dominica Harrison’s Chado has been longlisted for the 2021 BAFTA British Short Animation category and is currently one of six nominees. The six will become three when the shortlist is announced in March. Really delighted for everyone involved in the making of this short film that a year after it’s completion, a couple…

14/02/2021

Berlinale Talents 2021

In March I shall be participating in Berlinale Talents 2021 online edition, which this year is themed as ‘Dreams’. Super excited to be meeting up virtually with the other 199 ‘daring daydreamers’ from around the globe and to spend some time developing new ideas and hopefully new collaborators. More about the Berlinale Talents theme and…

18/01/2021

The Debutante receives BFI support

Really thrilled to be working again with Lizzy Hobbs on The Debutante, a new animation, made with ink and paint and paper collage. The film is based on British-born artist Leonora Carrington’s wonderful short story of the same name. Animate was successful in securing funding from the BFI’s new fund for short form animation fund,…

18/11/2020

Female Figures 2020

Glad to be at London International Animation Festival this year with the 4th edition of Female Figures. On 27 November you’ll be able to watch the programme online. It was scheduled to show at the Barbican, but the lockdown has sadly curtailed that live event. This programme is one that considers coming of age stories,…

05/11/2020

Chado: Dreaming in Textures

So pleased to share news of Dominica Harrison’s solo exhibition of artwork from the film Chado. Chado: Dreaming in Texture is at Leicester Print Workshop from 12 September to 7 November and is the venue’s first exhibition since lockdown began. At the centre of the exhibition is experimental animation, Chado, which combines digital animation and…

11/09/2020

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

Life since lockdown

In my last post I wrote about the screenings at Strangelove Festival that were scheduled to take place and that had to move online once lockdown came into force at the end of March. Many live events, screenings and exhibitions that had been a long time in the making for 2020 were postponed indefinitely, some…

30/08/2020

Strangelove screenings – now online

I am pleased to be sharing Animate Projects Presents, a programme of films that I’ve been involved in the making of. Experience reimagined histories, compelling documentaries and curious visions of our future. I am also presenting a selection of the Japan Grand Prix winners from the New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival. Thanks to festival…

09/03/2020

Bloomers nominated for the British Animation Awards

I am thrilled that Samantha Moore’s experimental animated documentary Bloomers has been nominated for Best Short Film at the British Animation Awards 2020. In celebration of this achievement we are launching the film on Vimeo on 4 March, a week before the BAAs awards announcement. Bloomers incorporates the materiality of garment manufacturing as it combines…

14/02/2020

LIAF awards

Amazing news – the top prizes at this year’s London International Animation Festival (LIAF) 2019 were awarded to two films that I produced this year. The Flounder by Elizabeth Hobbs was awarded Best of the Fest and Best Sound Design for its composition by Carola Bauckholt. Bloomers by Samantha Moore received Best British Film. The films screened both in…

09/12/2019

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

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

Happiness Machine screenings

Coming up you can find the Happiness Machine programme at: Manchester Animation Festival on Wednesday 13 November at 5pm, followed by a Q&A with directors Samantha Moore (Bloomers) & Elizabeth Hobbs (The Flounder), and co-founder of Tricky Women Waltraud Grausgruber. London International Animation Festival on Tuesday 3 December at 6:30pm, followed by a Q&A with…

02/11/2019

I’m OK now online

I”m so delighted to finally be able to share Elizabeth Hobbs’ gorgeous experimental short I’m OK, inspired by the life and the craft of Austrian Expressionist Artist Oskar Kokoschka, is now freely available to watch online at NFB.CA. Click on the video below to play! I’m OK, Elizabeth Hobbs, provided by the National Film Board…

05/10/2019

Heading up to Edinburgh

Next weekend I shall be off to Edinburgh International Film Festival with wonderful animators Elizabeth Hobbs and Samantha Moore. Our films Bloomers and The Flounder are both in competition for the McLaren Award for Best New British Animation. You can catch The Flounder on Friday 28 June in Programme 1 and Bloomers on Saturday 29…

20/06/2019

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

Animated events in April and May

From 6 April you can enjoy the epic exhibition Oskar Kokoschka: Expressionist, Migrant, European – A Retrospective at the Leopold Museum in Vienna. Thanks to Tricky Women’s support, Elizabeth Hobbs’ I’m OK has been included in the exhibition, amongst more than 260 exhibits. The exhibition runs to 8 July, so there’s plenty of opportunity to…

28/03/2019

It’s a DOOZY of a tour

Next month you can find DOOZY travelling the country, in an exclusive, UK-wide, screening tour. For each event there will be a post-screening discussion, where a different special guest will be in conversation with the film’s maker, artist Richard Squires. (Plus I may be popping up at one or two of them, as might the…

22/03/2019

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