Category: Films
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In the new episode of the Animated Documentary Podcast we talk to director Rosie Schellenberg. Rosie has over twenty years of experience making award-winning films and television programmes. Her latest film, Turner: the Secret Sketchbooks, broadcasts on Wednesday 19th November at 21:00 on BBC Two. This stunning biographic documentary, looking at the life of the pioneering painter…
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WATCH ONLINE: Animate Projects’ Accelerate Session, exploring the role of animation in a range of contemporary non-fiction creative storytelling contexts. The panel was hosted by Carla MacKinnon and included: journalist, filmmaker, and VR/AR pioneer, Nonny de la Peña; animator and director Samantha Moore; and producer Rebecca Mark Lawson.
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Jordan Antonowicz-Behnan is a filmmaker, animator and visual artist based in Hastings. Behnan’s practice borrows largely from Assemblage; any item can be utilised in his work, and his animation style is unpolished, complementing his hands-on approach to filmmaking. His animated documentary A Taste for Music (2022) was his graduation film from the Royal College of Art’s Animation MA, and has shown widely, including at Animafest Zagreb,…
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COME is a hybrid live action and animated documentary, in which fluid handcrafted animation is used to visualize personal and sensitive accounts of female orgasm. The film was made by the powerful daughter-and-mother team of director Bronwen Parker-Rhodes and animator Erica Russell. We asked Bronwen and Erica some questions about their process of making the…
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Miranda Peyton Jones is a filmmaker and moving image artist specialising in analogue and stop-motion animation. Jeremy, my Father, her 2022 graduation film from Kingston School of Art, is a short animated documentary that navigates bereavement following suicide. The film has screened widely and received numerous accolades, including a Royal Television Society award and a…
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Tim Webb is a director and animator whose pioneering work in animated documentary continues to inspire new generations of filmmakers. He graduated from West Surrey College of Art and Design in 1986 and went onto make multi-award winning short films including A is for Autism (1992), Mr Price (2004), 15th February (1996), and Six of…
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With a strong social media following and public screenings in festivals and events around the world, Haneen Koraz and her team are bringing animation from the women and children of Gaza to a global audience. Over the last year, the work of Haneen Koraz and her team in Gaza has grown in prominence and profile.…
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“CUMULUS is an experimental documentary project by Christopher Ian Smith, which focuses on the musician Imogen Heap. The film was crafted only through the manipulation of data and content created and shared by Imogen Heap and her fans on social media and digital content platforms. It was commissioned by the Reel Lives research project supported by the University…
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‘Where is My home?’ by Cecelia de Jesus was the official winner of the USC Shoah Foundation’s Student voices film competition in 2013. The film tells the story of Vera Gissing and her escape from Czechoslovakia during the start of the Holocaust. The USC Shoah Foundation is home to one of the largest collections of…
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