UK ANIMATION 2018 2 SHORT ANIMATION CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 4 SHORT ANIMATION 6 FEATURE-LENGTH ANIMATION 38 VIRTUAL REALITY / IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE ANIMATION 42 ABOUT BRITISH COUNCIL 46 BRITISH COUNCIL AND FESTIVALS 48 BRITISH COUNCIL FILM GLOBAL PROJECTS 50 BRITISH COUNCIL AND SHORTS 53 ANIMATION IN THE UK 2018 54 INDEX OF FILMS 62
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Welcome to the 2018 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 in 2018. You can also find information about some of the work we do and the partners we work with.
The PDF version of this catalogue will be updated periodically throughout the year and you can download it at film.britishcouncil. org/british-films-directory/uk-filmcatalogues
Film credits and information in this catalogue are drawn from our British Films 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 British Films Directory, as well as further directories listing both UK filmmakers and international film festivals, at britishcouncil.org/film
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6 SHORT ANIMATION Adelaide McCarthy and the Attraction Making of a Legend
Synopsis Synopsis We join Adelaide McCarthy as he explains the Urges in the undergrowth, erupting fungal fantasies, wonders of how stop motion puppets are made. bursting botanicals; the dust and desires of a tiny alternative universe. Details Year: 2018 Imagining sensations of attraction and pleasure in Running Time: 4 mins insects, and the seduction methods of the plants Director: Dewi Evans and fungi that beckon. Producer: Dewi Evans Executive Producer: Dewi Evans Details Editor: Dewi Evans, luke Campion Year: 2017 Screenwriter: Dewi Evans Running Time: 4 mins 32 secs Director of Photography: Dewi Evans Director: Emily Scaife Production Designer: Dewi Evans Producer: Royal College of Art Sound: Joseph Andrew Sewell, Sean Elias Editor: Emily Scaife Music: George Dolan Sound: Emily Scaife Principal Cast: Neil James, Carys Carter Music: Ben Bell (Horus Records) Puppet Fabricator: Dewi Evans Animator: Emily Scaife Film Images: ©Emily Scaife
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent A University of South Wales Royal College of Art Royal College of Art production Jane Colling Jane Colling Kensington Gore Kensington Gore Dewi Evans London London [email protected] SW7 2EU SW7 2EU www.ev2193.wixsite.com/ [email protected] [email protected] dewi-ev ansanimation www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 7 Avoiding Green Barbeque
Synopsis Synopsis Channeling the medium of knitting through film, Barbeque is the visceral journey about coping with Avoiding Green explores this ancient craft as an post-traumatic stress disorder. The film visualises early form of digital construction. Combining archive feelings and experiences that might be too difficult footage, interviews and ‘depth camera’ animation it or painful to put into words, and illustrates the explores the symbolic role that knitting took in the circular process of coping. definition of gender stereotypes from the mid 20th Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Century onward. Graduation Films Competition
Details Details Year: 2017 Year: 2017 Running Time: 11 mins 50 secs Running Time: 5 mins 44 secs Director: Phil Coy Director: Jenny Jokela Executive Producer: Invisible Dust Producer: Royal College of Art Editor: Jenny Jokela Sound: Jenny Jokela Music: Sarah Playford Soundmix: Adam Woodhams
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Phil Coy Phil Coy Royal College of Art Royal College of Art [email protected] [email protected] Jane Colling Jane Colling Kensington Gore Kensington Gore London London SW7 2EU SW7 2EU [email protected] [email protected] www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk
8 SHORT ANIMATION Battle of Blister Beetle Trouble
Synopsis Synopsis “We are the body. We are under attack.” And so Drawn in red wax pencil and charcoal, following the the body’s immune system is triggered into action. conflict between John and the bothersome beetles A raging battle has begun between pro and anti- that show up everywhere. Eventually John decides inflammatory forces in the swirling interior of a he needs to get rid of the pests, but it isn’t easy with blister. Battle of Blister was generated by human the medication he’s on. performers in an interactive film set. Details Details Year: 2017 Year: 2016 Running Time: 13 mins 29 secs Running Time: 5 mins 52 secs Director: Gabriel Böhmer Director: Genetic Moo Producer: Samantha Monk Producer: Abigail Addison Screenwriter: Gabriel Böhmer Editor: Genetic Moo Music: Ber Director of Photography: Opticalism Sound: Julia Schauerman Music: Genetic Moo Principal Cast: Marianne Grove, Jennifer Webster, Anna Woolhouse, Sidonie Carie-Green, Lucy Lungley, Annie Sutton, Gudrun Sigridur Haraldsdottir, Vicky Lee, Allyson Jones, Anna Arnsby, Harriet Parker- Beldeau, Katie Welsford, Chris Rutter, Evelyn Bennett, Jockel Liess, Da Collaborator: Dr Neil Dufton
Production Company Production Company An Animate Projects Samantha Monk commission, supported by [email protected] the Wellcome Trust
Animate Projects Abigail Addison 45 Empress Road Derby DE23 6TD [email protected] www.animateprojects.org
SHORT ANIMATION 9 Bloomers Body World
Synopsis Synopsis Bloomers captures the lively view of the sewing A fully grown new born woman is birthed into a room environment at Headen & Quarmby, a family hazy summer’s garden. A rose daemon emerges run, lingerie factory in Manchester. Created using a from the bushes, and as it takes her hand we follow combination of audio interviews, an original score our anonymous heroine on her hapless adventure. that incorporates sounds of the sewing room, and Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - animation printed onto fabric, it shares a glimpse of Cult Strand - World premiere working lives. Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Details Graduation Films Competition Year: 2018 Running Time: 10 mins Details Director: Samantha Moore Year: 2017 Producer: Abigail Addison Running Time: 7 mins Music: Malin Bång Director: Kitty Faingold Collaborators: The workers at the Headen & Producer: Quarmby lingerie factory. Editor: Kitty Faingold Commissioners: Klangforum Wien Screenwriter: Kitty Faingold Sound: Amadeo Faingold, Max Mannone 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 Jane Colling Jane Colling 45 Empress Road 45 Empress Road Kensington Gore Kensington Gore Derby Derby London London DE23 6TD DE23 6TD SW7 2EU SW7 2EU [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.animateprojects.or www.animateprojects.or www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk
10 SHORT ANIMATION Brexicuted Chickens
Synopsis Synopsis This satirical animation considers why Brexit The friend zone... We have all been there! Wondering is happening. A variety of British characters, if that glance from your crush meant something and interviewed the day after the UK voted to leave the if you will ever muster the courage to do something EU, speak about what motivated their decision. about it? Meet Adam and Emma with their cute, but unavoidable, problem. Brought to life through the Details illustrations of Meng-Chia Lai. Year: 2018 Running Time: 6 mins Details Director: Chris Shepherd Year: 2016 Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin Running Time: 4 mins 4 secs Associate Producer: Abigail Addison Director: George Wu Production Designer: Design: Simon Spilsbury Producer: Greet Kallikorm Sound: Andy Humphreys Executive Producer: Chris O’Reilly, Charlotte Bavasso Music: Carl Davis Editor: George Wu Principal Cast: Jean Boht, Steve Furst, Marie Screenwriter: George Wu Lawrence, Tom Hillenbrand, Carolina Valdes Production Designer: Meng-Chia Lai Animation: Chris Shepherd, Barry Evans, Lynne Sound: Brains and Hunch Pritchard, Martha Halliday, Hannah McNally, James Music: Athos Tsiopani Newport, Kate Anderson, Matt King, Charlie Nathan Principal Cast: Anne Harild Neville, Alan Warburton 2D Animators: Maki Yoshikuro, Andrew Clarke, Jamie Hobbs, Ivyy Chen, Krisi Zhupali Compositing: Aled Matthews
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 [email protected] [email protected] +44 (0)20 7749 7500 blog.autourdeminuit.com blog.autourdeminuit.com [email protected] www.nexusstudios.com
SHORT ANIMATION 11 Children of the Holocaust Construction Lines
Synopsis Synopsis Animated accounts from six World War Two A short animated film about the interior of an Holocaust Survivors. Documenting their ‘iceberg’ home (a home where the sub-ground levels extraordinary stories of escape as children from are larger than the house above). The iceberg home Nazi-occupied Europe, and the start of their new in question was not developed due to hundreds lives in Britain. Additional live-action camera of objections from surrounding neighbours in interviews see survivors discussing the impact of Knightsbridge, West London. Construction Lines these events on their lives, highlighting why it is shows this iceberg home rendered as a 3D model, important to still talk about the Holocaust today. using the original architectural plans and the software ‘Sketchup’. The narrative of the film, the Details model of the home, and the scenes played out Year: 2014 within it, are informed by the objections filed against Running Time: 6 x 5 mins animated shorts and 6 x 2 the planning application, as well as online articles mins live action interviews/ 53 mins feature speculating about the lives and lifestyles of the Director: Zane Whittingham super-rich. Producer: Kath Shackleton Official Selection Hamburg International Short Film Executive Producer: Katy Jones, Liz Molyneux, Festival 2018 - International premiere Helen Brunsdon Editor: Phil Bedwell Details Production Designer: Zane Whittingham Year: 2017 Sound: Dave Aston Running Time: 7 mins 41 secs Music: Paul Honey Director: Max Colson Principal Cast: Suzanne Ripton, Heinz Skyte, Martin Producer: Max Colson Kapel, Ruth Rogoff, Trude Silman, Arek Hersh Editor: Max Colson Animation: Ryan Jones, Oana Nechifor Screenwriter: Max Colson Additional Animation: Jade Hodgson, Gat Powell Director of Photography: Max Colson Backgrounds: Laura Tattersfield Production Designer: Max Colson Sound: Max Colson Music: Audionautix Principal Cast: Paul Bailey, Sandra Pearlmutter
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A Fettle Animation SND Films Colson Film and Video Max Colson Film and Video production. Commissioned Sydney Neter Max Colson Max Colson by BBC Learning and PO Box 15703 [email protected] [email protected] made in association with 1001 Amsterdam The Holocaust Survivors Netherlands Friendship Association. +31 2 04 04 07 07 Fettle Animation [email protected] 12A Victoria Street www.sndfilms.com Marsden Huddersfield HD7 6DF +44 (0)1484 846817 [email protected] www.fettleanimation.com
12 SHORT ANIMATION A Daily Chat Deep Beneath the Earth
Synopsis Synopsis This is a nonsense debate. When lovers build up a The only thing young Lucy likes is gaming on her relationship, they fill in every moment with silence, iPad. But when she loses it in the woods, she’s whispers, laughter and screaming. This is a nonsense determined to get it back. Her search leads her on a debate. journey deep into the earth... Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation Films Competition Details Year: 2016 Running Time: 3 mins Details Director: Kim Noce, Shaun Clark Year: 2017 Producer: Kim Noce, Shaun Clark Running Time: 5 mins 3 secs Co-Producer: Helena Thompson Director: Cheng-Hsu Chung Editor: Michael Ho Producer: Royal College of Art Screenwriter: Helena Thompson Editor: Cheng-Hsu Chung Production Designer: Kim Noce, Shaun Clark Screenwriter: Cheng-Hsu Chung Sound: Hutch Demouilpied Sound: Jarrah Hewes Music: Hutch Demouilpied Principal Cast: Voiceover: Aria Emory, Rebecca Principal Cast: Hope Dundee, Ruby the dog; Henser Narrator: Emily Arden
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Royal College of Art Royal College of Art Mewlab Jane Colling Jane Colling [email protected] Kensington Gore Kensington Gore London London SW7 2EU SW7 2EU [email protected] [email protected] www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 13 Edith Piaf (Said It Better Elegy Than Me) - Sparks
Synopsis Synopsis Sparks find themselves in 1930s Paris in pursuit of A film of stone and light – just stone and light. something just beyond their grasp. “Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. Sorrow and love became the principal themes Details of the elegy. Elegy presents everything as lost Year: 2017 and gone or absent and future.” (Samuel Taylor Running Time: 3 mins 45 secs Coleridge) Director: Joseph Wallace Producer: Carla Mooney, Delwyn Mooney Details Editor: Joseph Wallace Year: 2017 Director of Photography: Joseph Wallace Running Time: 6 mins Production Designer: Joseph Wallace; Puppets: Director: Paul Bush Roos Mattaar, Joseph Wallace; Sets: Aiden Whittam, Producer: Paul Bush, Gerd Gockell Katrina Hood, Heather Colbert, Joseph Wallace, Editor: Paul Bush Roos Mattaar, Mary Murphy Director of Photography: Paul Bush, Adrian Flury Music: Sparks (Ron Mael, Russell Mael) Sound: Andy Cowton, Thomas Gass Animation: Joseph Wallace, Roos Mattaar, Aiden Whittam Film Image: ©BMG Rights Management Ltd (UK) 2017
Production Company Sales Agenty Production Company Cardel Cardel UK, Switzerland Carla Mooney Carla Mooney coproduction carla@cardelentertainment. carla@cardelentertainment. Ancient Mariner Productions com com Ltd (UK), Schattenkabinett www.cardelentertainment.com www.cardelentertainment.com GmbH (CH) Ancient Mariner Productions Ltd www.paulbushfilms.com
14 SHORT ANIMATION Facing It Films To Break Projectors
Synopsis Synopsis As Sean waits anxiously in the local pub, he is Films to Break Projectors glues, scrapes and splices forced to explore his own unhappy memories 35mm, 16mm, and super 8 film to create defective and relationships in an evening that will leave him and unprojectable celluloid sculptures. Hi-res changed forever. scanning and digital stop motion reanimates the Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - material and reveals its potential motion and colour Graduation Films Competition music within, where traces of ambiguous narratives emerge from the complex loops. Details Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Year: 2018 Experimenta Strand Running Time: 8 mins 30 secs Director: Sam Gainsborough Details Producer: Jimmy Campbell - Smith Year: 2016 Editor: Mdhamiri A Nkemi Running Time: 5 mins 7 secs Screenwriter: Louisa Wood Director: iloobia Director of Photography: Bruno Grilo Producer: Tim Grabham Production Designer: Fiona Guest Editor: Tim Grabham Sound: Adam Woodhams Sound: iloobia, dissolving path Music: Jack Newton Audio Mix: Paul Pascoe Principal Cast: Daniele Bertolucci, Myra Ford, Basil Film Images: © cinema iloobia 2016 Pruveneers, Edward Aczel, Cathy Walker Production Manager: Garry Frost
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent NFTS (National Film and NFTS (National Film and Tim Grabham c/o cinema iloobia Television School) Television School) 312 Portland Road Tim Grabham Beaconsfield Studios Hemant Sharda Hove 312 Portland Road Station Road Station Road East Sussex Hove Beaconsfield Beaconsfield BN3 5LP East Sussex HP9 1LG HP9 1LG [email protected] BN3 5LP [email protected] [email protected] www.iloobia.com [email protected] www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk www.iloobia.com
SHORT ANIMATION 15 The Flounder The Full Story
Synopsis Synopsis The Flounder is a forthcoming adaptation of The A loving, close-knit family falls apart as we hurtle Fisherman and his Wife by the Brothers Grimm. This through the Seventies into the divorce boom of the 18th century German fable is a beautifully structured Eighties. Many years later, when the family home is morality tale about greed, which will be brought to sold, hindsight and fragments of childhood memory life with painted animation by Elizabeth Hobbs and combine to reveal the full story. an original score by composer Carola Bauckholt. Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Love Strand Details Year: 2018 Details Running Time: 5 mins Year: 2016 Director: Elizabeth Hobbs Running Time: 8 mins Producer: Abigail Addison Director: Daisy Jacobs Music: Carola Bauckholt Producer: Geoff Morgan, Elliott Tagg Commissioners: Klangforum Wien Editor: Vera Simmonds Film Image: Work-in-progress image Screenwriter: Daisy Jacobs © Elizabeth Hobbs 2018 Director of Photography: Max Williams Production Designer: Lucie Red, Elo Soode Sound: Jonas Andreas Jensen Music: Huw Bunford Co-Director: Chris Wilder
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Animate Projects Animate Projects Life-Size Films Ltd Abigail Addison Abigail Addison Daisy Jacobs 45 Empress Road 45 Empress Road [email protected] Derby Derby DE23 6TD DE23 6TD [email protected] [email protected] www.animateprojects.org www.animateprojects.org
16 SHORT ANIMATION Happiness Have Heart
Synopsis Synopsis The story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for A looping GIF has an existential crisis. happiness and fulfillment. A brilliant analogy to ‘Life Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - on Earth’. Dare Strand Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Film Competition Details Year: 2017 Details Running Time: 12 mins 10 secs Year: 2017 Director: Will Anderson Running Time: 5 mins Producer: Will Anderson Director: Steve Cutts Screenwriter: Will Anderson Producer: Steve Cutts Sound: Keith Duncan Screenwriter: Steve Cutts Music: Atzi Muramatsu Music: Kevin MacLeod Animation: Steve Cutts
Production Company Production Company Steve Cutts Will Anderson [email protected] www.wanderson.co.uk www.stevecutts.com
SHORT ANIMATION 17 Homegrown How Are You Today?
Synopsis Synopsis Francis raises his son like he cultivates his plants, In a fucked up world, two opposite characters meet. shielded from harm, comfortable inside. However when the boy outgrows his father’s protective Details confines, Francis must face an uncomfortable truth. Year: 2016 Running Time: 7 min 19 secs Details Director: Sophie Markatatos Year: 2017 Producer: Royal College of Art Running Time: 9 mins 20 secs Sound: Joseph Tate Director: Quentin Haberham Animation: Sophie Markatatos, Yannick Boireau Producer: Caroline Bartleet Editor: Emil Gundersen Screenwriter: Tim Fraser, Quentin Haberham Director of Photography: Tom Doran Production Designer: Violet Elliot Sound: Thomas Blazukas Music: Lindsay Wright Principal Cast: Philip Philmar, Sarah Ovens VFX: Bas Chatmaleerat, Jake Ferris Colouring: Vlad Barin
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent A National Film and NFTS (National Film and Royal College of Art Royal College of Art Television School (NFTS) Television School) Jane Colling Jane Colling production Hemant Sharda Kensington Gore Festivals Coordinator Station Road London Animation Department Quentin Haberham Beaconsfield SW7 2EU Royal College of Art [email protected] HP9 1LG [email protected] Kensington Gore www.quentinhaberham.com [email protected] www.rca.ac.uk London www.nfts.co.uk SW7 2EU +44 (0)20 7590 4512 [email protected] www.rca.ac.uk
18 SHORT ANIMATION I’m OK Immunecraft
Synopsis Synopsis Following the end of a stormy love affair, Adopting the form of a video game trailer, Expressionist artist Oskar Kokoschka enlists in the Immunecraft is an animation developed in First World War. After suffering serious injuries in collaboration with immunologist Dr Megan MacLeod battle, he experiences a series of memories and and presents a fictional game which gives users visions as medics transport him through the forests agency over a real life cell culture to compete of the Russian front. Playful and imaginative, I’m OK against opponent players, and explores the parallels explores the wounds of heartbreak and trauma. between popular gameplay mechanics and some of Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short the most important principles of the human immune Film Competition system, including cell memory and autoimmunity. It understands itself as a piece of speculative design Details futures, commenting on the principles of multiplayer Year: 2018 online gaming in the age of DNA building blocks, Running Time: 6 mins printable organic electronics and biohacking, thus Director: Elizabeth Hobbs raising questions about bioethics. Producer: Abigail Addison (Animate Projects) Co-Producer: Jelena Popovic (National Film Board Details of Canada) Year: 2016 Executive Producer: Gary Thomas (Animate Running Time: 3 mins 5 secs Projects), Michael Fukushima (National Film Board Director: Eric Schockmel, in collaboration with Dr of Canada) Megan MacLeod, University of Glasgow Sound: Sacha Ratcliffe Producer: Abigail Addison Film Images: © Animate Projects / Elizabeth Hobbs Executive Producer: Gary Thomas / The National Film Board of Canada Editor: Eric Schockmel Screenwriter: Eric Schockmel, Megan MacLeod Sound: Bram Meindersma Music: Bram Meindersma
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent UK, Canada coproduction National Film Board of An Animate Projects Animate Projects An Animate Projects (UK) , Canada commission, supported by Abigail Addison Elizabeth Hobbs (UK) and P.O. Box 6100 the Wellcome Trust 45 Empress Road the National Film Board of Station Centre-ville Animate Projects Derby Canada (CA) coproduction. Montreal Abigail Addison DE23 6TD Quebec, H3C 3H5 45 Empress Road [email protected] Animate Projects Canada www.animateprojects.org Abigail Addison Derby [email protected] DE23 6TD 45 Empress Road www.nfb.ca Derby [email protected] DE23 6TD www.animateprojects.org [email protected] www.animateprojects.org
SHORT ANIMATION 19 Inanimate Invisible Barriers
Synopsis Synopsis Katrine leads an ordinary life, with a regular job and An animated film created to support and encourage a happy relationship until one day she wakes up and girls to believe in themselves in difficult regions begins to see her world for what it really is. around the globe, where societal change and growth Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2018 - is needed and should be positively encouraged. Cinéfondation - World premiere Details Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Year: 2016 Graduation Films Competition Running Time: 2 mins 6 secs Director: Mustashrik Mahbub Details Producer: Alex Halley Year: 2018 Co-Producer: Valerie Messersi Running Time: 8 mins 30 secs Executive Producer: Partizan, Freuds, Girl Effect.org Director: Lucia Bulgheroni Editor: Mustashrik Mahbub, Kevin Konak Producer: Lennard Ortmann Screenwriter: Mustashrik Mahbub, Seb Royce, Editor: Raphael Pereira Basset Ikpi, Girl Effect.org Screenwriter: Andrew Eu (script development), Director of Photography: Mustashrik Mahbub Jonty Dawson (script development), Lucia Production Designer: Mustashrik Mahbub Bulgheroni (story) Sound: Ed Downham, Wave Studios Director of Photography: Ronnie McQuillan Music: Wave Studios Production Designer: Kristina Kovacs Principal Cast: Bassey Ikpi Sound: Louise Burton Music: Jose Pavli Principal Cast: Erin Austen, Jay Taylor, Jassa Ahu-luwalia Animation: Lucia Bulgheroni
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent NFTS (National Film and NFTS (National Film and Mustashrik Mahbub CUT-UP GmbH (Festival Television School) Television School) mustashrik.mahbub@gmail. Bookings) Moritz Schneider Beaconsfield Studios Hemant Sharda com & Andrea Station Road Station Road www.mustashrik.com Sponrig Beaconsfield Beaconsfield HP9 1LG Partizan Hopfenstrasse 19 HP9 1LG [email protected] 19 Kingsland Road Zürich [email protected] www.nfts.co.uk London CH-8045 www.nfts.co.uk E2 8AA Switzerland +44 (0)20 7851 0200 +41 44 201 08 02 www.partizan.com [email protected]
20 SHORT ANIMATION Johnno’s Dead Konfessions of a Klabautermann
Synopsis Synopsis Serving twelve years behind bars for a crime A video collage comprising multiple threads loosely you didn’t commit focuses the mind. Everything anchored around male maritime coming-of- age becomes crystal clear. All of the injustice poisons the rites. Hardeep Pandhal raps to a score composed soul and there’s nothing left but to settle old scores. with Joe Howe as we are dragged through a cartoon This film is the animation/live action hybrid sequel to world marked by male fears of floods, bordering Chris Shepherd’s award winning ‘Dad’s Dead’. between the homely and the gratuitous. Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2017 - World premiere Details Year: 2017 Details Running Time: 12 mins 22 secs Year: 2017 Director: Hardeep Pandhal Producer: Running Time: 8 mins Editor: Hardeep Pandhal Director: Chris Shepherd Screenwriter: Hardeep Pandhal Producer: Nicolas Schmerkin, Abigail Addison Sound: Hardeep Pandhal, Joe Howe Editor: Miikka Leskinen Principal Cast: Hardeep Pandhal, David Steans Screenwriter: Chris Shepherd Animation: Hardeep Pandhal Director of Photography: Peter Ellmore, Paul Teverini Film Image: © Hardeep Pandhal Sound: Andy Humphreys Music: Oliver Davis Principal Cast: Ian Hart, Chris Freeney
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company France, UK coproduction Autour De Minuit Commissioned by Berwick Autour De Minuit (FR), 21 Rue Henry Monnier Film and Media Arts Festival. Polkadot (UK) 75009 Production supported Paris by Arts Council England, Polkadot Productions France National Theatre of Scotland Limited +33 (0)4281 1728 1 Chevening Road Hardeep Pandhal [email protected] [email protected] Upper Norwood www.autourdeminuit.com London SE19 3TE +44 (0)7919 664295 [email protected] www.chrisshepherdfilms.com
SHORT ANIMATION 21 Leave a Print Life Cycles
Synopsis Synopsis A family of arctic foxes learns to cope with the fact An observational exploration of routine, monotony, that one of them is fading away. A story about losing attention and distraction. Will we continue to let and remembering. events pass us by uncontested, or will we decide to break the cycle? Details Year: 2016 Details Running Time: 5 mins 14 secs Year: 2016 Director: Christina S. Nerland Running Time: 4 mins 17 secs Producer: Christina S. Nerland Director: Ross Hogg Screenwriter: Christina S. Nerland Producer: Ross Hogg Music: Eduardo Andrade Executive Producer: Noel Goodwin, Stephen May Animation: Christina S. Nerland, Judit Boor, Sound: Keith Duncan Shuaijun Wang Music: Robbie Gunn Backgrounds: Christina S. Nerland, Juliette Rogasik, Principal Cast: Voices: Megan Taylor, Duncan Cowles, Tyrone Cheung Ainslie Henderson, Will Anderson, Scott Willis, Cat Bruce, Keith Duncan
Production Company Production Company Christina S. Nerland Ross Hogg [email protected] +44 (0)7738 376018 www.leaveaprintmovie.com [email protected] www.rosshogg.com
22 SHORT ANIMATION Love + Radio Animal Parts Love in Idleness
Synopsis Synopsis Dan recounts a mysterious visitation that had An animated film exploring the fleeting delusional an unusual effect on him and his fellow travelers love between Titania and Bottom. There is no while touring the United States with his band. An story, no time and no roles: only raw emotions and animated extract from podcast Love + Radio. sensations. The film is made with charcoal on paper, with a series of drawings constantly erased and Details retraced. Year: 2017 Running Time: 3 mins Details Director: Adam Wells Year: 2016 Producer: Nick van der Kolk Running Time: 5 mins Executive Producer: Nick van der Kolk Director: Kim Noce Sound: Steve McLaughlin, Philip Dmochowski Producer: Shaun Clark Principal Cast: Dan Deacon Editor: Benjamin Gerstein Sound: Hutch Demouilpied Music: Hutch Demouilpied Principal Cast: Sharon Gal, Hugo Degenhardt
Production Company Production Company Adam Wells A Mewlab and Film London [email protected] production www.adamwells.co.uk Mewlab c/o Kim Noce [email protected]
LIVE ACTION 23 Mamoon Marfa
Synopsis Synopsis Told entirely using projected animation onto A town on the borderlands of Texas. A place out polystyrene film sets, the film follows the story of a of time. A desert where strange lights dance in the mother and her infant child who are forced to leave night sky. A mecca for lovers of minimalist art. A their home when mysterious, dark shadows envelop landscape of lost horses, freaks and food trucks. the light in which they exist. And then there’s the giant lemon. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - Details World premiere Year: 2017 Running Time: 6 mins 29 secs Details Director: Ben Steer Year: 2017 Producer: Tom Box Running Time: 8 mins 22 secs Music: Matthew Wilcock for Zelig Sound Director: The Brothers McLeod Animation: Phil Brooks, Ben Steer, Ricky Honmong, Producer: The Brothers McLeod Sarah Caisley, Simon Taylor, Steve Kimbrey Editor: Greg McLeod Screenwriter: The Brothers McLeod Sound: Tom Angell Music: Tom Angell
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Blue Zoo Animation Blue Zoo Animation The Brothers McLeod The Brothers McLeod Tom Box Tom Box 2nd Floor 2nd Floor [email protected] [email protected] 46 Rother Street 46 Rother Street www.blue-zoo.co.uk www.blue-zoo.co.uk Stratford-upon-Avon Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire Warwickshire CV37 6LT CV37 6LT www.brothersmcleod.co.uk www.brothersmcleod.co.uk
24 SHORT ANIMATION Maybe It’s Me Microdistrict
Synopsis Synopsis With a voiceover that goes back in time, and Snaps of everyday human interactions are digitally rendered images of a warm Greek summer, assembled in a rhythmic montage that explores the the director transports us to his childhood and relationship between men, architecture and nature remembers his relationship with his grandfather. in the context of Bulgarian post-socialist residential In trying to recreate his childhood memories the neighbourhoods. filmmaker creates a moving film about the power of Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - memories and the relationships that have touched Graduation Films Competition us the most. Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Details Festival 2018 - International premiere Year: 2017 Running Time: 4 mins Details Director: Ivelina Ivanova Year: 2017 Producer: University of Westminster Running Time: 6 mins 8 secs Sound: trohi Director: Dimitris Simou Music: trohi Producer: Dimitris Simou Editor: Dimitris Simou Screenwriter: Dimitris Simou Sound: Zhe Wu Animation: Dimitris Simou
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Dimitris Simou Dimitris Simou A University of Westminster [email protected] [email protected] production www.dimitrissimou.com www.dimitrissimou.com University of Westminster BA Animation Stephen Ryley 309 Regent Street London W1B 2HW +44 (0)20 7911 5000 [email protected] Ivelina Ivanova [email protected]
SHORT ANIMATION 25 Not the End of the World [O]
Synopsis Synopsis A boy meets girl story. With much less meeting. [O] imitates nature in its manner of operation. The Joe Connoly’s life takes an unexpected turn when a film depicts cycles in a world entirely based on mysterious note arrives on his desk in school. sound frequency and vibration. Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2018 - Details Animation Spotlight Competition Year: 2017 Running Time: 8 mins 20 seconds Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Director: Jack Bennett Graduation Films Competition Producer: Jack Bennett Editor: Jack Bennett Details Screenwriter: Jack Bennett Year: 2017 Director of Photography: Jack Bennett Running Time: 6 mins 34 secs Sound: Dave Scott Director: Mario Radev, Chiara Sgatti Principal Cast: Mike Skinner, Pia Marie Pose, Tilly Producer: Mario Radev Buckhurst, Claire Mellor, Dale Hudson Co-Producer: Chiara Sgatti Executive Producer: Mario Radev Editor: Mario Radev, Chiara Sgatti Screenwriter: Mario Radev Director of Photography: Mario Radev, Chiara Sgatti Production Designer: Mario Radev, Chiara Sgatti Sound: Antonio Quiroga Waldthaler; 5.1 Sound Mix: George Roberts Music: Antonio Quiroga Waldthaler Principal Cast: Mario Radev, Chiara Sgatti Colouring Assistance: Anna Smirnova, Dana-Mari Tarakchieva, Vincent Hollywell Film Images: © Mario Radev and Chiara Sgatti
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent Bennett Films London College of Hewes Pictures Jack Bennett Communication LLC [email protected] Elephant and Castle Ivy Zhang - Acquisitions www.bennettfilms.co.uk London SE1 6SB 515 Madison Avenue +44 (0)20 7514 6500 New York [email protected] NY 10022 USA www.arts.ac.uk/lcc +1 212 726 2519 [email protected] www.HewesPictures.com
26 SHORT ANIMATION The Pangolin and the Hedgehog Perfect World
Synopsis Synopsis A young pangolin is brought up in a family of A journey through a sugary wonderland, following a hedgehogs. Feeling as an outsider, his hedgehog boy and his mother as they wander through a frozen mother confesses to him that he has been adopted. forest, meeting a bear, wolves. Wandering through He leaves in search of answers. He begins a journey magical white landscapes there are moments of to find himself but he will end up finding his real danger and wonder. All ending in a mothers hug and family... a sugar cube.
Details Details Year: 2017 Year: 2016 Running Time: 4 mins 42 secs Running Time: 4 mins 25 secs Director: Paolo Russo Director: Karni and Saul Producer: University of West of England, Bristol Producer: Karni and Saul Editor: Paolo Russo Executive Producer: Ssulkybunny Screenwriter: Paolo Russo Editor: Karni and Saul Director of Photography: Paolo Russo Director of Photography: Karni and Saul Production Designer: Paolo Russo Music: Katie Melua Sound: Thomas Hoey Music: William Newsome
Production Company Production Company Paolo Russo Animation Sulkybunny Paolo Russo [email protected] paolorussoanimation94@ www.sulkybunny.com gmail.com www.paolorussoanimation. weebly. com
SHORT ANIMATION 27 Plasticine Poles Apart
Synopsis Synopsis A boy day-dreams his future in Plasticine, then In a harsh Arctic landscape, a hungry and solitary shares his dream with his daughter. polar bear has to decide if a naïve Canadian grizzly bear is her food or her friend. Details BAFTA Award for Best Short Animated Film 2018 Year: 2016 Running Time: 30 mins Details Director: Raj Yagnik, Tine Kluth Running Time: 11 mins 52 secs Producer: Colette McWilliams Director: Paloma Baeza Executive Producer: Tim Lacey Producer: Ser En Low Editor: Raj Yagnik Editor: Zsófia Tálas Screenwriter: Raj Yagnik Screenwriter: Paloma Baeza Director of Photography: Raj Yagnik, Director of Photography: Jon Muschamp Jamie Kennerley Production Designer: Paula Gimenez Production Designer: Tine Kluth, Alex Ward Sound: Morgan Muse Sound: Ruth Rainey Music: Roma Yagnik Music: Hollie Buhagiar Principal Cast: Rafi Lanham, Indi Rae Fugil, Stuart Principal Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph May McMillan Animation: Tine Kluth Animators: Alex Crowley, Nuria Bataller, Paloma Baeza, Joanna Brooks
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent Wired Video National Film and Television The National Film and Raj Yagnik School (NFTS) Television School (NFTS) [email protected] Beaconsfield Studios Hemant Sharda www.wiredvideo.net Station Road Beaconsfield Studios Pressure Drop Pictures Beaconsfield Station Road www.pressuredroppictures.com HP9 1LG Beaconsfield [email protected] HP9 1LG www.nfts.co.uk +44 (0)1494 671234 Poles Apart Productions [email protected] [email protected] www.nfts.co.uk www.poles-a-part.com Poles Apart Productions [email protected] www.poles-a-part.com
28 SHORT ANIMATION Rabbit’s Blood Revolting Rhymes Part One
Synopsis Synopsis A girl who lost something important meets a rabbit. Snow White and Red Riding Hood become lifelong friends as Snow White takes on the might of the Details wicked Queen, whilst Red is called home to deal Year: 2017 with a pair of hungry wolves – one who has eaten Running Time: 4 mins 42 secs her grandma and then dressed in her clothes, and Director: Sarina Nihei another who can’t stop himself from eating some Producer: Sarina Nihei unsuspecting pigs. Production Executive: Fiona Lamptey Editor: Sarina Nihei Details Sound: Horret Kuus Year: 2016 Commissioning Editor: Catherine Bray Running Time: 29 mins Director: Jan Lachauer, Jakob Schuh; Co-Director: Bin-Han To Producer: Martin Pope, Michael Rose Co-Producer: Mike Buckland Executive Producer: Dominic Gregory, Elizabeth Kilgarriff Editor: Benjamin Quabeck, Jan Lachauer Screenwriter: Jan Lachauer (adaptation), Jakob Schuh (adaptation), Roald Dahl (original book), Quentin Blakes (original book illustration) Production Designer: Nadya Mira Sound: Sound Designer and Mixer: Adrian Rhodes Music: Ben Locket; Additional Music: Terry Davies Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Tamsin Greig, Dominic West, Rob Brydon, Gemma Chan, Rose Leslie, David Walliams, Dolly Heavey, Eden Muckle, Dylan Issberner, Amelie Forester-Evans
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent A Little Dot Studios Magic Light Pictures Magic Light Pictures production commissioned 21 Goodge Street 21 Goodge Street by Channel 4/ Random Acts London London Sarina Nihei W1T 2PJ W1T 2PJ [email protected] +44 (0)20 7631 1800 +44 (0)20 7631 1800 office@magiclightpictures. office@magiclightpictures. com com www.magiclightpictures.com www.magiclightpictures.com
SHORT ANIMATION 29 Revolting Rhymes Part Two Ride
Synopsis Synopsis Jack grows up with his heart set on next-door Hundreds of motorbikes are animated frame by neighbour Cindy. She has her eye turned by the frame in this homage to the iconic motorcycle eligible prince at the ball, and Jack gets distracted design and culture of the 1950s and 60s. A rider by a giant beanstalk at the bottom of his garden. prepares his bike and departs on an idealised Will they find true love? journey into the countryside and into the future. Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Details Film Competition - World premiere Year: 2016 Running Time: 29 mins Details Director: Jan Lachauer, Jakob Schuh; Co-Director: Year: 2018 Bin-Han To Running Time: 5 mins 40 secs Producer: Martin Pope, Michael Rose Director: Direction and Animation: Paul Bush; Co-Producer: Mike Buckland Dragonframe Animation: Tânia Duarte Executive Producer: Dominic Gregory, Elizabeth Producer: Paul Bush, Abi Feijo Kilgarriff Executive Producer: Phil Davies Editor: Benjamin Quabeck, Jan Lachauer Editor: Paul Bush Screenwriter: Jan Lachauer (adaptation), Jakob Screenwriter: Paul Bush Schuh (adaptation), Roald Dahl (original book), Director of Photography: Manuel Pinto Barros Quentin Blakes (original book illustration) Production Designer: Nuno Guedes Production Designer: Nadya Mira Sound: Andy Cowton Sound: Sound Designer and Mixer: Adrian Rhodes Music: Conjunto Típico do Val Music: Ben Locket; Additional Music: Terry Davies, Principal Cast: Bernardo Santo Tirso, João Cardoso Pete Grogan Photographed By: Ícaro Pintor, Paul Bush Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Rose Leslie, Gemma Chan, Dominic West, Rob Brydon, Isaac Hempstead Wright, Bel Poweley, David Walliams, Bertie Carvel, Dylan Issberner, Amelie Forester-Evans
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Magic Light Pictures Magic Light Pictures UK, Portugal coproduction Agência - Curtas Metragens 21 Goodge Street 21 Goodge Street Ancient Mariner Productions / Portuguese Short Film London London (UK), Ciclope Filmes (PT) Agency Auditório Municipal W1T 2PJ W1T 2PJ Pr Republica 4480-715 Vila +44 (0)20 7631 1800 +44 (0)20 7631 1800 Ancient Mariner Productions do Conde office@magiclightpictures. office@magiclightpictures. Ltd Portugal com com www.paulbushfilms.com/ +351 252 646683 www.magiclightpictures.com www.magiclightpictures.com ancient-mariner.html [email protected] www.curtas.pt
30 SHORT ANIMATION Robot & Scarecrow Robot Memoir
Synopsis Synopsis Set amidst the euphoric madness of a summer Robot Memoir is the latest film in an ongoing music festival, Robot & Scarecrow is a uniquely collaborative project between animator Edwin modern fairytale about love. When a robot pop Rostron and musician/writer Supreme Vagabond princess flees her keeper she runs straight into the Craftsman. arms of a lonely scarecrow desperate for adventure. They spend an incredible night together, caught in a Details heady vortex of music and magic. Year: 2018 Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Running Time: 7 mins 24 secs Create Strand - Short Film Competition Director: Edwin Rostron Producer: Edwin Rostron Details Music: Supreme Vagabond Craftsman Year: 2017 Animation: Edwin Rostron Running Time: 15 mins 23 secs Director: Kibwe Tavares Producer: Daniel Emmerson Co-Producer: Theo Barrowclough Executive Producer: Michael Fassbender, Conor McCaughan Editor: Jinx Godfrey Screenwriter: Ursula Rani Sarma, Kibwe Tavares Director of Photography: Luke Jacobs Sound: Matis Rei Music: Gaika, Bøn, Nils Frahm, Fat White Family Principal Cast: Jack O’Connell, Holliday Grainger, Daniel Kaluuya
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent DMC Film Supported by Jerwood Edwin Rostron 120 London Road Charitable Foundation [email protected] London www.edwinrostron.net SE1 6LF Edwin Rostron +44 (0)20 3865 8820 [email protected] [email protected] www.edwinrostron.net https://twitter.com/ DMCFilmOfficial
SHORT ANIMATION 31 Roger Ballen’s Theatre Roughhouse of Apparitions
Synopsis Synopsis Images created by photographer Roger Ballen Three friends embark on a new adventure in a plunge the audience deep into his mind: an strange town, but when a manipulative new member animated theatre of dismembered people, beasts joins their gang their loyalty is torn apart with and ghosts, dance, tumble, make love and tear terrifying consequences. themselves apart. A nightmarish subconscious world in black and white. Details Year: 2018 Details Running Time: 15 mins 30 secs Year: 2016 Director: Jonathan Hodgson Running Time: 5 mins Producer: Jonathan Hodgson, Richard Van Director: Emma Calder, Ged Haney Den Boom Producer: Emma Calder Co-Producer: Richard Van Den Boom Executive Producer: Roger Ballen Executive Producer: Richard Van Den Boom Editor: Emma Calder Editor: Zurine Ainz, Robert Bradbrook Screenwriter: Roger Ballen, Marguerite Rossouw, Screenwriter: Jonathan Hodgson Emma Calder, Ged Haney Production Designer: Jonathan Hodgson Sound: Emma Calder Sound: Yan Volsy Music: John Webb Music: Stuart Hilton Principal Cast: Roger Ballen Principal Cast: Stuart Ash, Greg Haworth, Sam Malley, Jordan Taylor; Narration: Steven Camden
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Pearly Oyster Productions c/o Pearly Oyster UK, France coproduction Papy3D Productions Ltd Productions Ltd Hodgson Films (UK), 43 Boulevard Emma Calder Emma Calder Papy3D Productions (FR) Auguste Blanqui [email protected] [email protected] 75013 Paris www.pearlyoyster.com www.pearlyoyster.com Hodgson Films Ltd France Jonathan Hodgson www.papy3d.com/html/en/ 79 Islip Street London NW5 2DL [email protected] hodgsonfilms.tumblr.com
32 SHORT ANIMATION Six God Alphabet Peter Snow White Cologne
Synopsis Synopsis Please wake up Peter. Please wake up. You need to Snow White Cologne is a visual poem, post- learn your alphabet now Peter. rationalising the struggle of a young girl’s drug addiction. There’s love and loss, good and bad. Details This film is an emotional journey based on a true, Year: 2016 personal story. Running Time: 6 mins 43 secs Director: Peter Millard Details Producer: Peter Millard Year: 2017 Co-Producer: Peter Millard Running Time: 6 mins 20 secs Executive Producer: Peter Millard Director: Amanda Eliasson Editor: Peter Millard Producer: Animation Staff RCA Screenwriter: Peter Millard Editor: Amanda Eliasson Director of Photography: Peter Millard Screenwriter: Amanda Eliasson Production Designer: Peter Millard Production Designer: Amanda Eliasson Sound: Peter Millard Sound: Amanda Eliasson Music: Skillbard Music: Kerstin Ljungstrom, Adam Renstrom, Clara Blom Christensen Principal Cast: Voiceover: Stina Svedlund Additional Painting: Agne Jurkenaite, Diyala Muir, Kate Ducker, Anh Hoang, Sacha Beeley, Alice Finn, Julia Yogaratnam, Ashley Park, Marian Obando
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent Peter Millard Royal College of Art Royal College of Art [email protected] Jane Colling Jane Colling Kensington Gore Kensington Gore London London SW7 2EU SW7 2EU [email protected] [email protected] www.rca.ac.uk www.rca.ac.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 33 Song of the Nobird Strange Beasts
Synopsis Synopsis Nobirds are the “no birds” that sing in Keats’s ‘La Strange Beasts is an augmented reality game. It Belle Dame Sans Merci’. The poem is re-imagined as allows you to create and grow your own ‘pet’. How a computer game where the “knight at arms” and far can it go? the “belle dame” might win one another if they make Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short the right choices. Real birds as negative images Film Competition haunt their quest. Details Details Year: 2017 Year: 2018 Running Time: 5 mins 20 secs Running Time: 3 mins 16 secs Director: Magali Barbe Director: Stuart Pound Producer: Magali Barbe Editor: Stuart Pound Co-Producer: Peregrine McCaferty, Red Knuckles Screenwriter: Rosemary Norman Executive Producer: Magali Barbe Principal Cast: Rosemary Norman Editor: Magali Barbe Text and Voice: Rosemary Norman Screenwriter: Magali Barbe Director of Photography: Anthony Guiry Production Designer: Amelie Guyot; Designer: Jonathan Djob Nkondo Sound: Pierre Vedovato Music: Pierre Vedovato Principal Cast: Timothy Renouf, Poppy Polivnick VFX Artists: Maickel Pasta, Dean Frater, Joffrey Zeitouni, Philippe Moine.
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Stuart Pound & Rosemary Stuart Pound & Rosemary Peanut VFX Norman Norman Amelie Guyot [email protected] [email protected] 12 Ramsgate Street [email protected] [email protected] London E8 2NA +44 (0)20 7254 5779 www.peanutfx.com Red Knuckles Mario Ucci and Rick Thiele 19-23 Kingsland Road London E2 8AA +44 (0)20 3889 6160 www.redknuckles.co.uk
34 SHORT ANIMATION Sun That Yorkshire Sound
Synopsis Synopsis The Sun has come out to play. Run for your lives!. A hand drawn animated documentary, following the rhythms of a day in Yorkshire. It captures the sound Details of Yorkshire, from it’s multicultural and bustling cities Year: 2013 like Bradford and Sheffield, to the delicate sounds of Running Time: 1 min 30 secs birds in the countryside and the hypnotic rhythm of Director: Paul Hill the motorways and train tracks. Producer: Mark Taylor Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short Music: Joe Donohoe Film Competition Animator: Phil Parker Details Year: 2017 Running Time: 2 mins 10 secs Director: Marcus Armitage Producer: L.J. Stacey Sound: Marian Mentrup Animation: Marcus Armitage, Diana Gradinaru
Production Company Production Company A Productions Ltd Marcus Armitage Paul Hill [email protected] 52 Old Market Street Bristol BS2 0ER +44 (0)117 9299005 [email protected] www.aproductions.co.uk
SHORT ANIMATION 35 Tough Trump Dreams
Synopsis Synopsis Some things can only be understood with An animation based on images, words and ideas maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural taken from dreams about Donald Trump from misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her people around the world. British-born daughter speak as adults for the first Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Short time. Films Perspectives Competition Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2017 - International Documentary Short Film Selection Details Year: 2017 Details Running Time: 3 mins 48 secs Year: 2016 Director: Ruth Lingford Running Time: 5 mins Producer: Ruth Lingford Director: Jennifer Zheng Editor: Ruth Lingford Producer: Jennifer Zheng Sound: George Lingford Editor: Jennifer Zheng Principal Cast: With the voices of: David Lobser, Sound: Jennifer Zheng Catharine Thiemann, Demane Davies, Rachel Gila, Music: K. Preston Merkley Aurora Andrews, Guy Maddin, Ruth Lingford, Walter Principal Cast: Jennifer Zheng, Lili Li Berry, Bryan Papciak, Chris Land
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Jennifer Zheng Jennifer Zheng Ruth Lingford Jane Colling +44 (0)7828 623062 +44 (0)7828 623062 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.jenniferzheng.co.uk www.jenniferzheng.co.uk
36 SHORT ANIMATION Wednesday With Goddard Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs)
Synopsis Synopsis A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to An animated tribute to Joe Orton marking the romance and despair. 50th anniversary of his death inspired by the prank letters of complaint that Orton penned under the Details pseudonym ‘Edna Welthorpe’. Year: 2016 Running Time: 4 mins 30 secs Details Director: Nicolas Ménard Year: 2017 Producer: Claire Spencer Cook; Assistant Producer: Running Time: 5 mins Rebecca Archer Director: Chris Shepherd Executive Producer: Chris O’Reilly, Charlotte Bavasso Producer: Abigail Addison Editor: Nicolas Ménard Executive Producer: Emma Parker Screenwriter: Nicolas Ménard Editor: Miikka Leskine Sound: David Kamp Screenwriter: Joe Orton, Chris Shepherd Music: David Kamp Production Designer: Animators and Design: Principal Cast: Denis Foley, Aneta Pietrowska Martha Halliday, Jocie Juritz, Hannah McNally, Chris Commissioned By: Pegah Farahmand, Random Acts, Shepherd Channel 4 Sound: Andy Humphreys Music: Oliver Davis Principal Cast: Alison Steadman; Voiceover: Robin Sebastian
Production Company Production Company Sales Agent Nexus Studios A Polkadot Productions Polkadot Productions Samia Ahmed and Chris Shepherd Films Limited 25 Chart Street production. 1 Chevening Road London Funded by the University of Upper Norwood N1 6FA Leicester and Arts Council London +44 (0)20 7749 7500 England SE19 3TE [email protected] +44 (0)7919 664295 www.nexusstudios.com Polkadot Productions [email protected] Limited www.chrisshepherdfilms.com 1 Chevening Road Upper Norwood London SE19 3TE +44 (0)7919 664295 [email protected] www.chrisshepherdfilms.com
SHORT ANIMATION 37 FEATURE-LENGTH ANIMATION , Director: Nick Park Early Man , Director:
38 Chuck Steel: Night of the Early Man Trampires
Synopsis Synopsis It’s not 1985 anymore...it’s 1986, and Chuck Steel is Set at the dawn of time, when dinosaurs and woolly “the best God damn cop on the force” according mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the to his long suffering boss, Captain Jack Schitt. story of how one plucky caveman unites his tribe But even this maverick, renegade, loose cannon, against a mighty enemy and saves the day (while lone wolf, cop on the edge, who doesn’t play by also inadvertently inventing the game of football!). the rules has his work cut out when the Governor Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Open- of LA decides to reduce the licensing hours for air Screenings clubs and bars triggering a sudden, inexplicable spate of high profile disappearances in the city. The Details disappearances all have the same thing in common, Year: 2018 a crime scene covered in blood but with no sign of Running Time: 89 mins the victim. The police are perplexed until they get a Director: Nick Park break in the case when one of the victims manages Producer: Peter Lord, David Sproxton, Nick Park, to escape. Chuck goes to interview the victim at the Carla Shelley, Richard Beek hospital but is confronted by a crazed old man who Executive Producer: Alicia Gold, Ron Halpern, introduces himself as Abraham Van Rental. He warns Didier Lupfer, Danny Perkins, Ben Roberts, a disbelieving Chuck that an evil scourge is about to Natascha Wharton descend on the city of Los Angeles - the scourge of Co-Executive Producer: Sean Clarke, Paul Kewley, the TRAMPIRES - a mutated hybrid of vampire and Kerry Lock tramp. Editor: Sim Evan-Jones Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - World Screenwriter: Mark Burton, James Higginson, premiere Nick Park Director of Photography: Charles Copping, Details Dave Alex Riddett, Paul Smith, Peter Sorg Year: 2018 Production Designer: Matt Perry Running Time: 90 mins Music: Harry Gregson-Williams, Tom Howe Director: Michael Mort Principal Cast: Voice cast: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Producer: Joseph D’Morais, Rupert Lywood, Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Richard Ayoade Michael Mort, Randhir Singh Editor: Stuart Bruce Screenwriter: Michael Mort Director of Photography: Laura Howie Production Designer: Alex Ward Music: Joris de Man Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Paul Whitehouse, Samatha Couglan, Lauren Harris, Mike Mort Production Company Sales Agent Production Company An Aardman Animations StudioCanal Animortal Studio production with the support 1, Place du Spectacle Bennett Street Industrial of BFI and StudioCanal. 92130 Issy les Moulineaux Estate France Bennett Street Aardman Animations +33 1 71 35 35 35 Bridgend Gas Ferry Road pascale.hornus@studiocanal. South Wales Bristol com CF31 3SH BS1 6UN mounia.wissinger@ +44 (0)1656 654119 +44 (0)117 984 8485 studiocanal.com [email protected] [email protected] www.studiocanal.com www.animortalstudio.com www.aardman.com
FEATURE-LENGTH ANIMATION 39 Ethel & Ernest Isle of Dogs
Synopsis Synopsis An entertaining and heart-warming story about two Atari Kobayashi is 12 years old, and ward to Kobayashi, people who fall in love against the background of the corrupt mayor of Megasaki City. When, by immense social change in the mid 20th Century, Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City experiencing the Depression, World War II, postwar are exiled to a vast garbage dump, Atari sets off alone austerity and cultural upheaval. Forty years of in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies to Trash change, one enduring love. Based on Raymond Island in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, Briggs’ award-winning graphic novel, a funny and with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel touching tribute to his parents. friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2016 - fate and future of the entire Prefecture. World premiere Official Selection Berlinale 2018 - Competition - World premiere Details Year: 2016 Details Running Time: 94 mins Year: 2018 Director: Roger Mainwood Running Time: 101 mins Producer: Camilla Deakin, Ruth Fielding Director: Wes Anderson Co-Producer: Stéphan Roelants Producer: Wes Anderson, Scott Rudin, Steven Rales, Executive Producer: Raymond Briggs, Robbie Little, Jeremy Dawson; Co-Producer: Octavia Peissel; Adam Partridge, Jon Rennie, Ben Roberts, Natascha Animation Producer: Simon Quinn Wharton, Matthew Read Executive Producer: Eli Bush, Christoph Fisser, Editor: Richard Overall Henning Molfenter, Charlie Woebcken Screenwriter: Raymond Briggs (graphic novel), Editor: Edward Bursch, Ralph Foster Roger Mainwood (screenplay) Screenwriter: Wes Anderson (screenplay, story), Director of Photography: Fraser Taggart Roman Coppola (story), Kunichi Nomura (story), Sound: Adrian Rhodes Jason Schwartzman (story) Music: Original Music by Carl Davis; Song ‘In The Director of Photography: Tristan Oliver Blink of an Eye’ by Paul McCartney Production Designer: Paul Harrod, Adam Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Brenda Blethyn, Jim Stockhausen Broadbent, Luke Treadaway Music: Alexandre Desplat; Music Supervisor: Randall Animation Director: Peter Dodd Poster Art Director: Robin Shaw Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Music Supervisor: Gary Welch Rankin, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Kunichi Nomura, Tilda Swinton, Ken Watanabe, Akira Ito Production Company Sales Agent Animation: Mark Waring Developed with the The Little Film Company Film Image: ©Twentieth Century Fox support of BBC, BFI, 3940 Laurel Canyon Ffilm Cymru Wales, Film Boulevard #807 Production Company Sales Agent Fund Luxembourg, Welsh Studio City UK, Germany, US Fox Searchlight Pictures Government CA 91604 coproduction 10201 West Pico Blvd. USA Lupus Films An Indian Paintbrush Los Angeles +1 818 762 6999 Ethel & Ernest Productions (US), American Empirical CA 90035 [email protected] Ltd 339 Upper Street Pictures (US), Scott Rudin USA www.thelittlefilmcompany.com London Productions (US) film, +1 310 369 1570 N1 0PB coproduced with Studio www.foxsearchlight.com +44 (0)20 3227 0490 Babelsberg (DE) and in [email protected] collaboration with 3 Mills www.lupusfilms.com Studios (UK)
40 FEATURE-LENGTH ANIMATION Paddington 2
Synopsis The continuing comic misadventures of a young marmalade-loving Peruvian bear who travels to London, and the kindly Brown family who give him a home. Paddington is now happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber’s antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it’s up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief.
Details Year: 2017 Running Time: 103 mins Director: Paul King Producer: David Heyman Executive Producer: Rosie Alison, Alexandra Ferguson, Jeffrey Clifford, Ron Halpern, Didier Lupfer Editor: Jonathan Amos, Mark Everson Screenwriter: Michael Bond (story), Simon Farnaby (screenplay), Paul King (screenplay) Director of Photography: Erik Wilson Production Designer: Gary Williamson Music: Dario Marianelli; Music Supervisor: Nick Angel Principal Cast: Ben Whishaw (voice cast), Imelda Staunton (voice cast), Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson
Production Company StudioCanal UK, France coproduction 50 Marshall Street A Heyday Films (UK), London StudioCanal (UK) W1F 9BQ production with TF1 Films +44 (0)20 7534 2700 Production in association [email protected] with Anton Capital www.studiocanal.com Entertainment (UK) with Sales Agent the participation of Canal+ StudioCanal (FR), Ciné+ (FR), TF1 (FR), 50 Marshall Street Marmalade Films Ltd (UK) London Heyday Films W1F 9BQ 5 Denmark Street +44 (0)20 7534 2700 London [email protected] WC2H 8LP www.studiocanal.com +44 (0)20 7836 6333
FEATURE-LENGTH ANIMATION 41 VIRTUAL REALITY (VR)/ IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE ANIMATION My Name is Peter Stillman My Name is Peter
42 VIRTUAL REALITY / IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE VIRTUAL REALITY / IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE 43 DICKGIRL 3D(X) The Little Things (Les Petites Choses)
Synopsis Synopsis DICKGIRL 3D(X) is the non-binary version of EVA Little Louis is happy living with his grandparents in v3.0, an avatar purchased online and appropriated Northern Catalonia. When his grandmother dies, by the artist. Through the experience of DICKGIRL he and his grandfather struggle to rebuild their 3D(X), the viewer becomes a post-human pleasure- relationship. A room scale VR short movie focusing seeker in an encounter with a submissive clay-like on perspectives and point of views. Through sculpture. Louis’ eyes, you will see the world as you used to experience it when you were little. And from few Details others that only virtual reality can make it possible. Year: 2016 Running Time: 3 mins loop Details Director: Sidsel Meineche Hansen; Key Collaborator: Year: 2017 James B Stringer Running Time: 5 mins Producer: Werkflow Ltd Director: Bandits Collective Production Designer: Werkflow Ltd Producer: Picnic Studio Sound: Nkisi Co-Producer: Picnic Studio Music: Nkisi Executive Producer: Picnic Studio Format: Virtual Reality (VR) and CGI animation with Editor: Bandits Collective sound Screenwriter: Bandits Collective Director of Photography: Bandits Collective Production Designer: Bandits Collective Sound: Daniele Carmosino Music: Daniele Carmosino Principal Cast: André, Jeanne, Louis Animators: William Lorton, Paul Torris, Camille Rabes Rigger: David Jurine Format: Virtual Reality (VR)
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Werkflow Ltd Rodeo Fine Arts Limited Bandits Collective Bandits Collective [email protected] 125 Charing Cross Road www.banditscollective.com www.banditscollective.com www.werkflow.co.uk London WC2H 0EW +44 (0)20 7439 9777 [email protected] www.rodeo-gallery.com
44 VIRTUAL REALITY / IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE My Name Is Peter Stillman Rain or Shine
Synopsis Synopsis A telephone rings three times in the dead of the The sun is shining, the birds are singing, there’s a night. A man called Peter Stillman is looking to spring in everybody’s step. It’s a perfect day until hire a private detective, Paul Auster of the Auster Ella steps outside. Detective Agency, someone Daniel Quinn is not. Details Based on Paul Auster’s critically acclaimed novel, Year: 2016 ‘City of Glass’ this VR experience puts the user Running Time: 5 mins 29 secs directly into the deeply emotional and disorientating Director: Felix Massie story of Daniel Quinn, a reclusive crime writer who Producer: Mariano Melman; Development Producer: unwittingly becomes the protagonist in a real-life Claire Cook thriller of his own. The gripping, 4 minute experience Executive Producer: Luke Youngman; Executive combines hand-drawn animation and cutting edge Creative Director: Chris O’Reilly technology to distort the line between reality and Editor: Dave Slade action, placing audiences at the centre of this Sound: Brains and Hunch narrative as the strange and haunting story unfolds. Music: Tom Haines In a story about identity, ‘My Name is Peter Stillman’ Format: Interactive 360° mobile VR makes us question who we really are in this fragile world.
Details Year: 2017 Running Time: 4 mins Director: VR Director: Lysander Ashton; Performance Director: Leo Warner; Assistant Director: Raphael Pimlott Producer: Rebecca Collis, Vicky Graham, Anna Jameson Screenwriter: Paul Auster (inspired by ‘City Of Glass’) Sound: Sound Design: Gareth Fry Principal Cast: Voice Cast: Joshua James Animation: Joseph Pierce, Edd Stockton Format: Virtual Reality (VR)
Production Company Production Company A 59 Productions Ltd Nexus Studios production funded by Pooja Patel The Space 25 Chart Street 59 Productions London Unit 8/9 Benwell Studios N1 6FA 11-13 Benwell Road [email protected] London www.nexusstudios.com N7 7BL +44 (0)845 6439859 [email protected] www.fiftynineproductions.co.uk
VIRTUAL REALITY / IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE 45 , Director: Elizabeth Hobbs I’m OK , Director:
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Ethel & Ernest, Director Roger Mainwood UK Films Directory
Our UK Films Directory is an incredible tool Festival Selector Preview for increasing exposure for new and existing Screenings film work to programmers and audiences around the world and includes information The British Council provides a preview service about short and feature films across fiction, for selectors from the world’s major film documentary, animation and increasingly VR. festivals whose teams join us in London to Find the directory online at view new British feature films to consider for film.britishcouncil.org/british-films- their upcoming festivals. directory
We currently welcome teams from festivals We also produce a range of UK film including Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin, catalogues throughout the year showcasing Tribeca, Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, selected UK features, documentaries and Venice, Toronto, San Sebastian and Zurich. shorts. Find our recent documentary and shorts UK Film at International Festivals catalogues here film.britishcouncil.org/british-films- As a partner in UK Film, an umbrella directory/uk-film-catalogues organisation which brings together the UK’s film commissions, national and regional agencies, producers and sales companies, we take an active role in hosting UK stands at key film markets (including Berlin, Cannes and Toronto).
48 Paddington 2, Director: Paul King 49 BRITISH COUNCIL FILM GLOBAL PROJECTS
Festivals and Seasons
Our Festivals and Seasons team works with cultural institutes in the UK and overseas - and a range of corporate sponsors, foundations, trusts and patrons – to respond to international cultural opportunities. Through high-profile international festivals and seasons in different countries we introduce millions of people around the world to the best of UK culture and innovation, creating new opportunities for artists and India, Indonesia, Korea organisations to work internationally. As part of UK / India, the launch of an Film is always an important part of seasons online archive programme, and a tour of and recent activities include: the BFI-remastered epic silent filmShiraz across India, with live performances of a new score by Anoushka Shankar. During UK / KR in Korea we supported: a Michael Winterbottom retrospective at Jeonju Film Festival; premiered our Flare Films touring programme at Seoul Pride Film Festival; and presented Silent Signal – animation made in collaboration with scientists – as part of Artience, an art and science festival and workshop. Our UK / ID season in Indonesia focused on collaborative residencies and exchange, with UK partners including AND Festival and curator George Clark.
Games & Interactive
We have recently added games and interactive media into our portfolio, with new programmes exploring the cultural role of games and the intersection between games as commerce and art.
50 #FiveFilms4Freedom
Each year we partner with BFI Flare, London’s LGBTQ+ film festival, to stage the world’s biggest global, digital LGBTQ+ film programme. In 2018 our #FiveFilms4Freedom selection of five short films received over 6.3 million views in 11 days from people in 152 countries, many in which Stories LGBTQ+ rights do not exist. A partnership with the Scottish Documentary Institute has resulted in a major programme of creative documentary workshops helping filmmakers in challenging areas to give authentic voices to their work. Workshops have been held in Libya, Bangladesh, Morocco, Palestine and Pakistan, with the most recent programme working with displaced Syrians across Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. The resulting short docs uncovering unseen global ‘Stories’ have been screened at prestigious festivals including Sheffield DocFest and Locarno.
BAFTA Breakthrough Brits
Cámara Chica During a long-term partnership with In partnership with film education organisa- BAFTA under the tion Into Film, we’ve hosted filmmaking initial banner Brits workshops in Cuba and Venezuela, training to Watch, we have trainers in the skills needed to help young presented selected people to use film to tell their own stories. UK filmmakers to exclusive audiences of opinion formers during bespoke Amma Asante visits to the US with
51 screenings and meetings taking place in New FILM TOURING PROGRAMMES York and LA. Brits to Watch alumni include Amma Asante, Clio Barnard, Carol Morley Through partnerships with UK film and William Oldroyd. Subsequently our organisations, we offer a range of exciting programme has expanded to take BAFTA’s film programmes for international screenings Breakthrough Brits – the next generation of organised by British Council colleagues British creative talent in film, television and together with cultural partners. Current games – to make new contacts in China and programmes include: Hong Kong. BAFTA 2018: this year’s Short and Short FILM + MUSIC Animation winners and nominees;
Working with our Music team, we aim G-AAAH!: animation for young audiences. in to support performers, composers and partnership with Into Film, the UK charity that producers working in, or aspiring to work in, puts film at the heart of children and young the artistic space where these two worlds people’s education; converge. Flare Films: shorts from the UK selected from In 2016, in partnership with BFI Southbank BFI Flare, London’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival; and HOME Manchester, we ran FAMLAB (Film, Archive, Music), bringing together musicians, Grierson Documentaries: UK documentaries, filmmakers and producers from the UK and all nominated for Grierson Awards; East Asia to share best practice and learn from industry experts about their experiences A History of British Animation: an animated working with music, archive material and portrait of Britain; see page 54 for more film. Other activities include presenting a information. performance of Mica Levi’s score for Under The Skin, Jonathan Glazer’s sci-fi thriller, in Kazakhstan, and supporting British composer Michael Price to undertake workshops with emerging composers in Vietnam and Ukraine. music.britishcouncil.org/projects/film-and- music
52 BRITISH COUNCIL & SHORTS
Travel Grant Fund Animation
In partnership with the BFI, we operate a Travel We support the McLaren Award for Best Grant Fund for short filmmakers whose work British Animation at Edinburgh International has been selected to screen at key international Film Festival. As part of Anim18, we’re festivals. The list includes dedicated animation supporting a series of panels exploring the festivals – Annecy, Animafest Zagreb, Ottawa, impact of British animation internationally, Cinanima (Portugal), Anima Mundi (Brazil), in partnership with EIFF, Cardiff Animation Hiroshima – and many other festivals that Festival, Encounters and Manchester regularly select British animation, including Animation. Sundance, Rotterdam, Oberhausen and Clermont-Ferrand. We recently expanded the UK Shorts Portal remit of the fund to include Virtual Reality projects. Discover more at film.britishcouncil. Our digital platform brings together the best org/on-going-projects/shorts new short film work from partners across the UK and makes it available on a secure Short Support Scheme basis for buyers, distributors and festival programmers around the world. Discover Once a filmmaker has received a Travel Grant more at UKShortsportal.picturepipe.net they become part of the Short Support Scheme. The scheme provides a platform Short Sighted to promote new UK work to extensive programming contacts from key international The British Council partners with BAFTA and short film festivals. Filmmakers also gain Shooting People on an annual conference access to an annual calendar of events where designed to demystify exhibition, distribution they can watch new work, hear from industry and promotion for short filmmakers, with experts and meet with other filmmaking editions in London and across the UK. teams across the UK.
53 ANIMATION IN THE UK 2018
A feature-length international touring BFI ANIMATION 2018 programme including highlights from the collection is also available for screenings. A History of British Animation offers the history In 2018 the British Film Institute celebrates of an art and industry but also an animated animation in all its guises, from puppetry and portrait of a nation. stop-motion to anime and CGI, online and in screenings at BFI Southbank in London and The films range fromAnimated Doll and Toy across the UK. Town Circus (1912) using the Kinemacolor process and stop-motion filming in what is Animated Britain possibly the world’s oldest surviving colour A new online collection of over 300 films, animation to work by godfather of British surveying a stunningly rich century-long animation, Bob Godfrey and the remarkable history of British animation, available free Alison de Vere, one of the artists behind via BFI Player, and drawn from both the BFI Yellow Submarine. The silent films are National Archive and Regional and National accompanied by a newly commissioned Film Archive Partners across the UK. From score by Stephen Horne. the earliest pioneers and the birth of British animation with Latest News’ animated ANIM18 titles in 1904, to some of the best known, Anim18 is a celebration of animation taking award-winning names in commercial and place across the UK, complementing BFI independent animation. Including works Animation 2018, showcasing the best of by Halas & Batchelor, Bob Godfrey, George British talent, with the aim to put British Dunning, Cosgrove Hall and Larkins Studio, animation – past, present and future – firmly this landmark collection highlights the in the spotlight. It will explore the history of extraordinary creative variety in domestic British animation, from early techniques to production across the UK. modern technologies such as gaming and VR. player.bfi.org.uk/free/collection/animated- britain The programme features screenings, workshops and pop-up events, and Archive Remasters is a complementary three- opportunites to and get involved in pop-up part programme for UK cinemas of 35 newly activities such as anijams and gamejams. remastered classic animations drawn from There will be Scratch n Sniff screenings, live the BFI National Archive’s unique animation soundtracks and singalongs. collection. Ranging from 1909 to 1993 the anim18.co.uk programme presents key works alongside unexpected surprises of little known or rarely seen early examples of British Animation for a genre-hopping, whistle-stop tour of the 20th century.
54 Konfessions of a Klabautermann, Director: Hardeep Pandhal 55 PROGRAMMERS’ POINTS OF VIEW
Some thoughts on Animation I❝ have a deep love and respect for the British Short Animated Film and its creators. I believe in the UK. the UK Animation landscape is resilient. Like most of our creative industries, it has stood the test of time and despite several decades of funding fluctuation, where more money could always be invested in the arts and film, our animators have continued to create, even under challenging circumstances. And what will always remain is how animation is such an imperative and significant part of UK culture, its achievements contributing to the country’s identity, fuelling children’s imagination and helping to promote the UK globally. Animation as an art form encourages creativity, self expression, communication and deep craft skills and techniques. It has impact across the social and economic landscapes, throughout our communities and across all regions. Animation is consistently at the forefront of emerging technologies, embracing innovation with risk taking and pioneering creative techniques. Animation is fundamental in the current landscape of contemporary arts – in galleries and its use in the performing arts, as part of dance, theatre and opera. UK animation is a wonderful and welcoming industry. Whilst we still need to lobby and advocate to see more dedicated funding and strategic investment grow, there are always independent British animated films that are evidence of the determination of artistic talent and resilience! HELEN BRUNSDON DIRECTOR, BRITISH ANIMATION AWARDS britishanimationawards.com
56 ❝ ❝ In my 27 years or so with the Ottawa I am constantly looking to champion female International Animation Festival, many things talent in the UK, both as an independent have changed (countries, technologies, the producer and programmer, and as a member increase in animation schools, film production of the shorts selection team for Underwire and my age), but thankfully there have been a Festival, the UK’s largest film festival few aspects of festival programming that have celebrating female talent. not really altered all that much. One of those is It’s always a thrill to discover work by women the consistent quality of animation short films that offers up a fresh perspective, as can be from the UK. seen in the provocative, confessional, and Year after year, whether it’s student work chimerical shorts included in this catalogue. from the RCA or the NFTS, narrative and There has been a noticeable shift over experimental works, or even TV work; whether the past few years. Women animators are it’s dramatic, comic, absurdist, or abstract, defiantly reclaiming their bodies on screen there are always gems to be discovered that and sharing the authentic experience of being will be inspiring, unique and groundbreaking. female. Demonstrably more and more films by The diversity of work been astonishing – female students are presenting a strong sense especially given the sparsity of funding of self, of sensuality, and of physical delight in opportunities for indie animators in the UK, their bodies. and just at the all-star roster of talent that UK In 2017 I programmed Female Figures, animation has produced, since the 1980s, who a special event for London International continue to create today: Joanna Quinn, Barry Animation Festival, that grew out of Purves, Paul Bush, Jonathan Hodgson, Phil recognition of the under-representation of Mulloy, Ruth Lingford, and some guys named female animators. A way to spotlight some of Peter Lord and Nick Park... And it hasn’t the talented animators making work today, it stopped there: newer UK talents like Daisy also presented an alternate view of women Jacobs, Elizabeth Hobbs, Peter Millard, and from the sexist representations that still Ross Hogg are garnering worldwide acclaim persist. The event sold out – the appetite for for their inventive and provocative work. women’s stories is clearly strong. It’s a remarkable achievement that UK Given that almost half of the animators animators have trudged through those murky working in the UK today are women, it seems financial waters to create some of the world’s only just that their work, and the stories that finest works of art. reflect on their experiences of the world, are CHRIS ROBINSON illuminated on screen. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL ABIGAIL ADDISON animationfestival.ca PRODUCER AND PROGRAMMER DIRECTOR, ANIMATE PROJECTS themindslostcontinent.com animateprojects.org
57 London International Animation Festival UK FESTIVALS Founded in 2003, LIAF aims to dispel the popular misconception that animation is just cartoons for kids by screening the broadest Cardiff Animation Festival possible range of intelligent, entertaining and Launched in April 2018, and held at Chapter, provocative current films on offer from all the Welsh capital’s vibrant arts hub, CAF around the world, as well as retrospectives provides a brand new focal point for Cardiff’s and specialised sessions from countries and thriving animation community, and a meeting animators who don’t normally elicit such place for industry, independent animators and attention. LIAF’s year round programme tours enthusiasts from the wider animation world. events, screenings and masterclasses across cardiffanimation.com the UK and internationally. liaf.org.uk Manchester Animation Festival The UK’s largest animation festival dedicated Edinburgh International Film Festival to the celebration of the animated art form. The festival’s McLaren Award, first given Hosted at HOME in Manchester, the festival in 1990, provides a focus for new British brings one of the UK’s biggest animation short animation and recognises the spirit of hubs together and invites the international creativity. The award, named in honour of community to delight in all things animated. Norman McLaren, the renowned Scottish- manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk born animator, is decided by audience vote. The McLaren Award is supported by the Encounters British Council The UK’s leading short film, animation and virtual reality festival, based in Bristol, Flatpack Film Festival provides a unique platform for emerging Taking over venues across Birmingham and established filmmaking talent. Alongside every spring, Flatpack is a mixture of films, its highly regarded annual international film performances, contraptions and surprises. competition, it offers year-round support, Recurring themes include animation, music, bespoke training courses and a variety of artists’ film, archive discoveries, offbeat shorts touring programmes. for kids and live cinema, exploring the fertile territory where film bumps up against other The festival began life in 1995 as Brief artforms. Encounters – a one-off event to mark the flatpackfestival.org.uk centenary of cinema. Animated Encounters was set up in 2001 to celebrate and showcase London Short Film Festival animation. In 2006 the two festivals united - An annual event presenting the best in UK now known simply as ‘Encounters’. short filmmaking talent, over two weeks encounters-festival.org.uk in January, taking over London’s best independent cinemas and venues, with live music and parties too. shortfilms.org.uk
58 Animex Founded by Teesside University in 2000, with INDUSTRY a view to creating a world-class inclusive festival that would draw some of the games Animation Alliance UK and animation industries’ brightest lights and A broad association of independent future stars together to share their knowledge animation professionals – animators, artists, with the next generation. Consisting of a programmers, producers, researchers, critics, unique blend of talks, workshops, networking academics, studios, festivals – across a wide events, exhibitions and screenings, Animex range of creative and professional practice and promotes an ethos of collaboration and engagement, AAUK champions the work of sharing and prides itself on its warm friendly the independent animation sector in the UK. atmosphere. animationallianceuk.org animex.tees.ac.uk Animation UK BFX The UK Screen Alliance in partnership with Launched in 2012 as a student competition Animation UK is the trade association that and a festival – the BFX Competition represents companies involved in animation, identifies and encourages the next wave of post-production, VFX, physical effects, talent in VFX and Animation production, audio, camera and lighting hire, freelance while the BFX Festival features presentations, talent agencies and TV & film studios. It workshops and masterclasses delivered by provides the collective clout that individual leading industry professionals, screenings of businesses cannot achieve alone, to raise the best VFX and Animation movies as well proactively issues, drive the debate and lobby as the latest developments from the Games to influence Government, broadcasters and industry. other industry bodies. bfxfestival.com ukscreenalliance.co.uk/about/animation-uk
BFI NETWORK A collaboration between the BFI, national film organisations and cultural venues around the UK, with a mission to discover and support emerging talented writers, directors and producers, providing funding for short films, first feature development, and professional and creative development programmes. New support for new talent includes up to 12 new animated shorts currently in production for BFI NETWORK and BBC Four, and recently appointed new talent executives based at Film Hubs across England. network.bfi.org.uk
59 Children’s Media Conference Annual conference for everyone involved RESOURCES in developing, producing and distributing content for children – on all platforms, animation-festivals.com welcoming delegates from film, TV, radio, An online, constantly updated and free to use, interactive media, games, licensing, toys, international directory of animation festivals. book and magazine publishing, the arts and culture sector and educational media – with Skwigly speakers from all those areas and beyond. An online magazine and community that CMC also organises events throughout the brings the animation community a wide year – including workshops, seminars, and range of up-to-date content; including delegations to international markets. news, interviews, reviews, podcasts, videos thechildrensmediaconference.com and tutorials. Skwigly covers all aspects of animation, from the biggest Hollywood Manimation blockbusters to the best independent short Curated by Manchester-based Manimation films. Working Group and organised by The skwigly.co.uk Children’s Media Conference, this annual event presents business and creative Edge of Frame inspiration sessions for the region’s animation Run by artist animator and curator Edwin community. Rostron, Edge of Frame began as a blog in thechildrensmediaconference.com 2013, aiming to stimulate artistic discourse around experimental animation, focusing Move Summit on work at the intersection of animation, Scotland’s animation gathering, bringing experimental film and artists’ moving image, together creatives from film, television, and the project now includes screenings and advertising, games, and visual arts to discussion events. celebrate the joy of making things move. edgeofframe.co.uk movesummit.co.uk Animate Projects Archive The online home of the Animate Collection, including animated films, interviews and writing. Animate began in 1990 as an Arts Council England and Channel 4 commissioning programme, extending to include a wider range of commissioning, production and exhibition projects across animation, film and visual arts practice, for cinema, gallery, public screens and digital platforms. animateprojectsarchive.org
60 That Yorkshire Sound, Director: Marcus Armitage 61 INDEX OF FILMS
Adelaide McCarthy and the Mamoon 24 Making of a Legend 7 Marfa 24 Attraction 7 Maybe It’s Me 25 Avoiding Green 8 Microdistrict 25 Barbeque 8 My Name Is Peter Stillman 45 Battle of Blister 9 Not the End of the World 26 Beetle Trouble 9 [O] 26 Bloomers 10 Paddington 2 41 Body World 10 Pangolin and the Hedgehog, The 27 Brexicuted 11 Perfect World 27 Chickens 11 Plasticine 28 Children of the Holocaust 12 Poles Apart 28 Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires 39 Rabbit’s Blood 29 Construction Lines 12 Rain or Shine 45 Daily Chat, A 13 Revolting Rhymes Part One 29 Deep Beneath the Earth 13 Revolting Rhymes Part Two 30 DICKGIRL 3D(X) 44 Ride 30 Early Man 39 Robot & Scarecrow 31 Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me) Robot Memoir 31 - Sparks 14 Roger Ballen’s Theatre of Apparitions 32 Elegy 14 Roughhouse 32 Ethel & Ernest 40 Six God Alphabet Peter 33 Facing It 15 Snow White Cologne 33 Films To Break Projectors 15 Song of the Nobird 34 Flounder, The 16 Strange Beasts 34 Full Story, The 16 Sun 35 Happiness 17 That Yorkshire Sound 35 Have Heart 17 Tough 36 Homegrown 18 Trump Dreams 36 How Are You Today? 18 Wednesday With Goddard 37 I’m OK 19 Yours Faithfully, Edna Welthorpe (Mrs) 37 Immunecraft 19 Inanimate 20 Invisible Barriers 20 Isle of Dogs 40 Johnno’s Dead 21 Konfessions of a Klabautermann 21 Leave a Print 22 Life Cycles 22 Little Things, The (Les Petites Choses) 44 Love + Radio Animal Parts 23 Love in Idleness 23
62 Roger Ballen’s Theatre of Aparitions, Emma Calder & Ged Haney britishcouncil.org/film
@british_Film Emily Scaife , Director: Attraction