UK@Kidscreen Delegation Brochure 2013
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All Rights Reserved 'LVQH\DQG7LP%XUWRQ¶V)UDQNHQZHHQLH 2QVHWDW0LOOVVWXGLRV/RQGRQ ukti.gov.uk/greatbritain Contents Forewords 4-5 Jayne Kirkham 22 Danny Lopez 4 Jollywise Media 23 Greg Childs and Sarah Baynes 5 Kindle Entertainment 24 Laughing Gravy Media 25 Lookman Ltd 26 UK Delegate Companies 6-41 MCC Media 27 1973 Films 6 Minimonos 28 Accorder Music Publishing 7 Nutmeg Animations UK Ltd 29 Adair Digital Ltd 8 Picture Lock Music Ltd 30 AVM Ltd 9 Plug-in Media 31 Bright Box Creative 10 Pluto Entertainments Ltd 32 Clifton Village Productions Ltd 11 Red Hat Animation Ltd 33 Compact Media Group 12 Red Kite Animation 34 Darrall Macqueen Ltd 13 Rights.tv Ltd 35 Deepwater Blue 14 Smart Party 36 Dog Ears 15 Team Cooper 37 Factory TM Ltd 16 The Creative Garden 38 Flickerpix Animations 17 The Children’s Media Conference 39 Flix Facilities Ltd 18 Tiger Aspect Productions 40 Fun Crew Ltd 19 Visible Ink Television 41 Gardiner Entertainment Ltd 20 IpDipSkyBlue 21 Contacts 42 Cover images: Top left: Fingers McGraw, Top right: Dinopaws! Middle: The Cat In the Hat Knows a Lot About That! Bottom left: Victoria Spunge, Bottom middle: Clifton Village, Bottom right: Nutmeg 4 UK@Kidscreen 2013 Foreword By Danny Lopez It is wonderful to see so many of the UK’s most infl uential and creative companies here at this year’s Kidscreen. Children’s broadcasting is a Mary Poppins and James and the I hope this year’s Kidscreen is a particularly successful sector for Giant Peach, it was a great reminder valuable opportunity for you to the UK. We have an excellent track of the global appeal and reach of network and build new relationships. record of producing entertaining and British culture. I wish you all an enjoyable, successful educational television programmes and productive programme. for children, both animation and live We are now building on this success action, dramatic and factual. to push the UK’s creative industries Danny Lopez is the British into new and exciting areas. The Consul-General in New York The London 2012 Olympic Games Government is committed to Opening Ceremony was a fabulous and introducing tax breaks for animation magical demonstration of the capacity and TV production companies, further of the UK’s creative talent to surprise, demonstrating the UK’s commitment inspire and astound. Referencing to creativity. For investors, of course, many of the nation’s favourite these tax breaks are another element children’s books and fi lms, including of the UK’s perennial attraction as a Harry Potter, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, place to do business. UK@Kidscreen 2013 5 ForewordTitle By Greg Childs, The Children’s Media Conference and Sarah Baynes, The Creative Garden It’sAddress a great time to be returning to Kidscreen with the UK delegation. This is the second year that The Children’s Media Conference and The Creative Garden have led the UK@Kidscreen group on behalf of UK Trade & Investment. We’re delighted to say there are more companies, and more individuals – in fact nearly twice the number. It really feels like “the British are coming”. We hope you’ll enjoy meeting them as much as we enjoy organising the group – and we Name Title wishwww. you a happy and successful Kidscreen 2013. Greg Childs Sarah Baynes The UK’s record in children’s content The Creative Garden works with a wide Our delegates have great ideas to development, production, distribution variety of clients from all sides of the share, and service offers which are and exploitation is second to none. industry, from large international unbeatable. We are confi dent you This year’s UK@Kidscreen group broadcasters to individual creatives will fi nd their expertise enviable and includes companies and individuals working wherever their laptop can their willingness to build partnerships with expertise in live-action, be charged. invaluable. drama and comedy, mixed media, interactive production, multi-platform The Children’s Media Conference – Greg Childs is Editorial Director of development, digital and creative attracting over 800 delegates – is held The Children’s Media Conference consultancy, music production and annually in July in Sheffi eld and is exploitation, and of course, the newly where the UK kids content industry Sarah Baynes is the Creative Director buoyant sector in the UK – animation – gathers to refresh its creative and of The Creative Garden of every shape and style. business batteries, keep up with the innovative and learn from the successful. The UK@Kidscreen delegation is organised by The Creative Garden and Kidscreen provides these opportunities the CMC who have both been helping too – and the chance to build client the kids’ creative sector thrive in and partner relationships which get different ways over the last ten years. great projects off the ground. 6 UK@Kidscreen 2013 1973 Films 5 High Green Tel: +44 (0) 20 8541 4382 Great Shelford Email: tim@1973fi lms.co.uk Cambridge Linkedin: uk.linkedin.com/pub/ CB22 5EG tim-goodchild/47/735/534/ United Kingdom Other: http://www.timgoodchild.co.uk New York Contact: +44 7411 061452 Tim Goodchild Louise Scott Producer Director 1973 Films is a new UK-based We’re very excited to be attending production company founded by Kidscreen 2013 as part of the UK multiple Emmy and BAFTA honoured delegation and are interested in producer Tim Goodchild and director meeting with potential co-production Louise Scott. Alongside our factual partners across all media for our series and TV movies, we are currently projects as well as other like-minded developing a number of animated companies who are looking for children’s preschool projects which partners in the UK. we will be taking to Kidscreen this year. UK@Kidscreen 2013 7 Accorder Music Publishing 3 Braziers End House Tel: +44 (0) 1494 758779 Oak Lane Email: [email protected] Braziers End Buckinghamshire New York Contact: HP5 2UL + 44 7885 317746 United Kingdom Simon Forrest www.accordermusic.com Managing Director Since the company’s launch in 2009, royalties and music rights, tracking Accorder has become one of the airplay, exploiting the music through leading music publishers for kids’ TV digital media downloads and other producers and composers everywhere means, music clearance and music – maximising royalty income, ensuring supervision. Music published includes the use of high quality music and Tree Fu Tom, Toby’s Travelling Circus, protecting IP. The company provides a The Abadas, Olive the Ostrich, Mouk, highly bespoke service, ensuring a level The Ha Ha Hairies, Bookaboo, Abney & of service second-to-none. Teal, 64 Zoo Lane, Kikoriki, Supa Strikas and many, many more international Accorder’s activities include handling hits. A full list of the company’s contractual matters, sourcing music, extensive client list can be found collecting and administrating global on the website. 8 UK@Kidscreen 2013 Adair Digital Ltd 7 Sandycombe Road Tel: +44 (0) 20 8948 3018 Kew Email: [email protected] Richmond Surrey New York Contact: TW9 2EP + 44 7801 310946 United Kingdom Julie Adair www.adairdigital.com Director Adair Digital offers strategic consultancy in web and apps, project leadership, team and individual mentoring and training in all areas of interactive media. We specialise in children’s content from pre-school upwards, working with broadcasters, publishers, opinion-formers and creatives. UK@Kidscreen 2013 9 Animal Vegetable Mineral 126 Bolingbroke Grove Tel: +44 (0) 20 3397 2543 Clapham Email: [email protected] London Twitter: @Butanica SW11 1DA United Kingdom New York Contact: +44 7771 762212 Rupert Harris www.animalvegetablemineral.tv Creative Director AVM make spectacular TV show’s by The company was formed in 2011 by combining video game and broadcast the team behind the award-winning know-how so audiences can watch, BBC show BAMZOOKI and Josh create, play along and take part. Nizzi, the concept artist behind the Transformers and Iron Man movies. 10 UK@Kidscreen 2013 Bright Box Creative 33/34 Brunswick Road Tel: +44 (0) 7814 661575 Edinburgh Email: [email protected] EH7 5GU Skype: brightboxcreative United Kingdom Twitter: @BrightBoxCreatv New York Contact: +44 7814 661575 Leanne Preston www.brightboxcreative.co.uk (under construction) Creative Consultant Bright Box Creative is a creative Bright Box specialises in the consultancy run by Leanne Preston development of projects for children’s offering support to the Children’s TV and transmedia across live action Media sector. Leanne has worked in and animation, script development and Children’s TV for several years both editing and creative consultation across at Nickelodeon, where she worked production. Leanne is looking forward in International Development and to meeting producers and forging new Production for the network including collaborations to develop exciting new across the Bafta nominated House projects. of Anubis and most recently at Red Kite Animation in Edinburgh, as Development Manager. UK@Kidscreen 2013 11 Clifton Village Productions 17 Swiss Road Tel: +44 (0) 1494 758779 Ashton Vale Email: [email protected] Bristol Email: [email protected] BS3 2RU United Kingdom New York Contact: +44 7967 376565 Richard Higgs Debbie Smith www.cliftonvillage.tv Co-producer Co-producer Clifton Village Productions Ltd. was Lily and Bill, with a host of eclectic set up in 2009 by Debbie Smith (a characters, from the antique shop longstanding, freelance design sculptor owner to the zookeeper. Core values with Aardman Animations) and Richard include community, compassion and Higgs (an Emmy award winning TV respect, whilst giving an insight into designer) to develop a 52 x 10 minute the lives, languages and cultures of stop-frame and CGI animation series the cosmopolitan neighbourhood they for pre-school.