Zoom-away-day: Stobbs Cup Challenge 2020! Animation awayday...at home!

Very pleased to be asked to organise an away day for the fabulous lawyers at Stobbs, Cambridge, as part of the historic Stobbs Cup Challenge 2020.

I was delighted to share the day with super-talented and fellow BAFTA nominated animator & filmmaker, Lizzy Hobbs as co-host and collaborator to deliver the innovative Animation Morphathon Challenge on ZOOM

The 10 Stobbs teams rose to the challenge with gusto! Grappling with post-it notes, plasticine, animation software, masking tape, and shoe boxes, they produced some truly incredible results in just a few hours and we both agreed that if they ever fancied a change of career, they would stand a great chance in the industry!

https://lizzyhobbs.wordpress.com

Too Close To Home: The Safer Streets Project

My new film is a 10 minute documentary, Too Close To Home: The Safer Streets Project.

The project was set up in response to the fatal stabbing of three young men in the Kentish Town/Cantelowes community in February 2018. 

Through raising awareness of the complex issues that have led to the recent violence the project aims to equip young people with some basic skills including self-defence, first aid, and educational discussion sessions focused around the impact of choice and personal responsibility.

The film has three main aims:

-       To document the experience of the young people who participated in the project at NW5 Play Project and Kentish Town Community Centre.

-       To allow the young people to voice their opinions.

-       For the purpose of evaluation for funders

 Commissioned and organised by Kentish Town Community Centre and NW5 Play Project

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WHAT’S NEXT in competition at Edinburgh International Film Festival

My animated music video for Piroshka is about to be screened this Saturday 29/06/19 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in competition for the McLaren Award for the Best British Animation !




..In 1990, the McLaren Award for the Best British Animation was inaugurated in honour of the Academy Award®-winning Stirling-born animator Norman McLaren. Ever since, we have sought to reflect McLaren’s pioneering spirit. As such, many of these films contain mature subject matter not suitable for children. As is now tradition, the winner of the McLaren is determined by public vote..

Very proud to be listed in staff picks by Iain Gardner, EIFF Animation Programmer...”If Brexit is making your blood boil, you may be as agitated as some of the animators in the second of our McLaren Award selections..



https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/2019/mclaren-animation-2/06-29_13-10

https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/latest/2019-staff-recommendations?fbclid=IwAR12dilwFcpirQ_5jxLfhN2B32Gdlyfm2s6peMyGzaICgP9mtGG_Hq1k1RQ