Projects in categories: Animation

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A live action-stopmotion hybrid horror. Fei is the top violinist in her elite youth orchestra. When another Chinese violinist arrives to challenge her place, Fei’s anxieties and internalized racism grow to take monstrous physical form. They whisper to her, urging her to be the best, no matter the cost.
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2024
Official Selection SXSW Film Festival 2024

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One man’s obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy... and it’s not because he’s eating them. Tom’s all-consuming quest for the truth takes him on a journey into the unknown in this animated comedy short about nostalgia, corporate conspiracy and bear-shaped potato snacks.
Official Selection Cardiff Animation Festival 2023

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Emotional repair through wool. VISIBLE MENDING reclaims the role knitting plays in many people's lives; helping them face adversity, calm anxiety, and make crucial social connections. A group of stop motion knitted objects tell stories about how they have used knitting to mend themselves, even if the repair is temporary.
BAFTA Film Awards 2024 - Nomination - Best British Short Animation

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Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three tiny humans who star in a kids' TV series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. Struggling to find enough to eat, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.
Official Selection Venice Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2024
Official Selection SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival 2024
British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) Awards 2024 - Winner - Best British Short Film
BAFTA Film Awards 2025 - Winner - Best British Short Animation
Academy Awards 2025 - Oscar Nomination - Best Animated Short Film

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In a world where beauty is a woman’s s currency, one girl trades her face to be beautiful.

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An animated documentary that explores ghosts and gentrification in Shepherd's Bush Market using 2D digital animation, live action footage, oral histories, memories, and archival images.The film presents this West London market as a vital urban common, a site for community, care, and resistance in a predominantly immigrant neighbourhood.

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An animated short film about breakfast and one man blowing the role of a lifetime.
A brother and sister approach a diner cook to play their father in an upcoming movie about his life. Their father was very, very famous. The diner cook is not famous. He must try harder...
Official Selection London International Animation Festival 2023

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48 hours in the life of Jonny, a young straight white man clumsily cruising through big city life. Between dates, neighbours and old friends, Jonny’s idea of who he is and who he wants to be are tested.
Official Selection Manchester Animation Festival 2023 - Winner Best British Short
Official Selection Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2024 - Labo Competition

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Lee returns to Darwin from London when her mum is taken ill. After a chance encounter, there's an opportunity to reflect on the past, but is she ready to think differently about the beautiful place she calls home?
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection Flickerfest 2024

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As a young boy tries to comfort his grieving mother over the loss of his father, they must first face the painful memories stemming from their history together.

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A clip from “The Abyss” (1910). A couple quarrel and a parade of numbers “times” them. There’s a mix of software in the processing, AI to separate the silhouettes from their background, but a now obsolete font for the numbers. The sound is a disco track played backwards.

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Eyes are tracked and attentions plotted as a fictitious audience follows the narrator's orders. They are divided by the screen and though they try, neither can see through to the other side. We question the relationship's reciprocity, and start to feel a strange empathy for the narrator.