May 13, 2022
Following a quick peek at the BAA 2022 Award announcement site, we am super excited to announce that out 2021 graduate animation Suburb has won the award for Best Undergraduate Student Film.
Wohooo!
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Following a quick peek at the BAA 2022 Award announcement site, we am super excited to announce that out 2021 graduate animation Suburb has won the award for Best Undergraduate Student Film.
Wohooo!
Exciting news hot of the Press.
Our 2025 graduate animation Magna Marginalia and Simulate have been nominated in the Animation category for the RTS Southern Centre Student Awards 2026. We will be competing against graduate animation Before Lights Out from University for the Creative Arts.
Our BA Film course also received a nomination in the Factual (Long Form) category with the film Pole Position.
The award ceremony will be held at The Hilton - Utilita Bowl in Southampton on Friday the 17th of April at 7 pm.
Congratulations all round and Fingers crossed!
News just in. Spellbound will be joining Noise Film, Suburb, M.A., Checkpoint, and Heartwood at international festival of animation, vfx & games ANIMEX 2022.Presented by Teesside University, the festival will take place as an in-person event taking at Middlesbrough Town Hall from the 16th – 20th of May 2022.Awesome stuff!
https://animex.tees.ac.uk/
Late April saw the launch of Brighton International Animation Festival (BIAF).https://www.brightoninternationalanimationfestival.com/BIAF is the first of its kind, set on the sunny coast of Brighton hosting a plethora of programmes, Q+A’s and talks, and film screenings with entries from across the globe.Hiding and Checkpoint were both selected for BIAF, screening in the New Generation programme (Checkpoint) and the Puppet Stories programme (Hiding), both on Saturday the 23rd of April.The festival’s Sunday schedule also included an industry talk with Karrot Animation, hosted by their producer/founder and AUB animation alumni Jamie Badminton.As well as hosting live events in Brighton, it offers selected filmmakers the opportunity to be screened on community, not-for-profit local TV channel in the UK Latest TV in Brighton. This serves over 350,000 households, introducing the selected films to an even wider audience. Latest TV is also the host of the Film Pride film festival in the city.As selected films both Checkpoint and Hiding will be taking part in the TV broadcast of the festival in May on Latest TV.Checkpoint – as part of the New Generation programme - will be available to watch on Saturday the 14th of May at 9.55pm (approximate time - the festival begins at 9pm that evening and there is a segment before this screening)Hiding – as part of the Puppet Stories Programme - will be available to watch on Sunday the 15th of May at 9.00pm.Latest TV is available on Freeview 7 and Virgin 159 in Brighton and surrounding areas, and you can livestream the channel from anywhere in the world via thelatest.co.uk/latest-tv
We spoke with Toon Boom Ambassador Hanna Lea Wyttenbach; a motion designer, character animator, and the director behind True Colours.
Our 2020 animation graduate Hanna Lea Wyttenback talks about working on her graduate animation ‘True Colours’.
We are very pleased to announce that a few weeks back Toil and Trouble took part in the RiverRun International Film Festival.https://riverrunfilm.com/The festival is a non-profit cultural organization in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The 10-day While the festival is their largest and most visible platform to reach audiences, RiverRun also presents several year-round screening programs which include RiverRun Retro; RiverRun Arts; the free ITVS Indie Lens Pop-Up Series in partnership with PBS North Carolina; and a free education initiative – Films With Class.The 24th RiverRun International Film Festival took place from April 21 – 30, 2022 in Winston-Salem, NC.Toil and Trouble was screened in the Saturday Morning Cartoons section.Congratulations team Toil and trouble!
News just in. Toil and Trouble has been selected for the Young Audience Competition in the 13th edition of the Anibar International Animation Festival program.https://anibar.org/The festival will take place in Peja, Kosovo from the 13th to the 19th of July 2022. The films in competition will be judged by International and National Jury and the winners will be awarded.The film makers will have the opportunity to participate in ‘Coffee and Talks’ (Meet the Filmmakers) presenting their films and doing Q&As with the public. This will take place either online or in person with the filmmaker attending the festival.Congratulations Toil and Trouble and good luck in the competition!
Anna screens at LIAF
We are super happy to announce the first outing for our new 2018 graduate animations. Stopmotion production Anna has been selected to be screened in competition in the British Showcase at the London International Animation Festival (LIAF 2018), the UK’s largest international animation festival.
Anna was selected out of more than 2,600 films viewed by the LIAF programmers.
LIAF will be running from November 30 to December 9 at the Barbican, along with other London venues, and we will be screening the best of the world’s most recent animation and some specialised programmes and retrospectives.
An amazing start for our 2018 graduate productions.
Congratulations team Anna, and good luck!