British Animation Awards
Thursday 9^th – Saturday 11^th February, 2012

We’ve teamed up with Animation Forum WM and Dice Productions to provide some value for money light refreshment for the British Animation Awards Public Choice screenings in Birmingham!

We’re in full support of these screenings, ensuring a regional screening of this great programme for all you animators, and your chance to vote in the public choice awards. (there’s a couple of shorts we screened at Flip last year included in the programme- well done!).

We have a free ticket, each night to give away for anyone that would like to volunteer serving drinks, and then you get free admission to the screening that night (just drop me an email on ren [at] light-house .co.uk)

The screenings will take place from 7pm on 9th, 10th and 11th February at The Custard Factory Theatre, Digbeth.

You can buy your from the Eventbrite Page and check out the full listings there.

See you there!

I know you all enjoyed the talks & screening of Isle Of Spagg, so tweet (@brothersmcleod) them happy today and offer your well wishes

Here’s the full list of winners at the 2011 awards

From all the Light House & Flip team – WELL DONE!!!

x

Bertie Crisp, Dir. Francesca Adams (UK)

Bertie Crisp, a half panda lives in a caravan park with his sociopath bunny rabbit wife, Grace. She is determined to have a baby – the problem is she wants one immediately and with Bertie struggling with the … traditional method, they turn to plan B- Kidnap!

The Skeleton Woman, Dir. Sarah Van Den Boom (FRANCE)

Tired and bored by her plain daily life, a young housewife mourns her lost American lover and dreams of a better life, elsewhere. Inside her, the skeleton woman, hidden into the dark, is waiting to be saved.

Dead Bird, Dir. Trevor Hardy (UK)

Peter gets some advice from a wise old man… even though he didn’t ask for it. This is a one minute stop-frame animation.

Robin Hood, Dir, Ben Smith (UK)

Timid princess Marion is whisked up in an action packed adventure as a mysterious outlaw in green tries to escape her castle and evade the callous Sherrif of Nottingham. But when the thief is caught and sentenced to death, Marion faces a desperate decision between her future, with the feeling in her heart for Robin Heart.

Caged, Dir. Ravi Maheru (UK)

3D Animation about the friendship between a bird and a slave. When the toxic gases present in the mines become a threat to the bird, the slave must find a way to free him. However, the bird’s arrival has not gone unnoticed as the slave masters, the overlords are close behind.

John and Betty, Dir. Alex Hancocks & Luke George (UK)

Elderly Couple John and Betty are happily married until John’s unhealthy obsession with solving crimes leads him to grow dangerously suspicious of his wife.

Special runner up mentions to:

Nathan Wilkes – Creature Chat
Kwame Nyong’o – The Legend of Ngong Hills
Udi Asoulin & Uriah Naeh – IIuzia
Gary Jones – Overtime
Barry Purves – Plume
Awner Geller & Stevie Lewis – Defective Detective

Thank you to all the volunteers, special guests, technical crew & staff at Light House that made this years festival amazing!

You may not know who Cosgrove Hall are but you’ll know their productions! These are the masterminds behind Dangermouse, Postman Pat, Noddy, Count Duckula and many more! Yes Brian and Mark have entertained children for generations and now you get the chance to meet them!

Cosgrove Hall go back as far as 1969 when they were called Stop Frame Productions. Operating from Manchester Brian and Mark had the passion and desire for animation is what got them their success. Their first series was called Chorlton and the Wheelies named after the district they lived in. The show sold worldwide.

Later in 1975 Stop Frame Productions changed their name to Cosgrove Hall Films.  The studio moved on to make Dangermouse. It became one of the studio’s earliest international successes. In 1981 they moved onto making a full feature-length film. This was once again a success! After winning a BAFTA and an International Emmy Award.

Join us Saturday 29th October, 11.15am for Cosgrove Hall: An Animated Life, with Marc Silk (Voice Artist), who will be hosting the session.

Full Weekend passes available from www.ticketsellers.com. Individual Session Passes available from Thursday 27th October onwards.

Hope you have fun tomorrow.

Nathan

This weekend sees us host the 8th annual Flip Animation Festival and if you haven’t already seen boy we have an AMAZING line up for you.

With guests including Bill Plympton (Talk, Screening & Workshop), Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall of Cosgrove Hall (Talk and Screening) and Jim Parkyn from Aardman (Screening and Workshop) this year is unmissable!!!

For the weekends programme visit www.flipfestival.co.uk/mobile < –  Smart phone users you can bookmark this page as a handy mobile app!

Both day and weekend tickets are still available* and can be booked by calling 01902 716 055

Twitter users don’t forget to tag you updates with #FLIP2011 to see them appear on our website www.flipfestival.co.uk/live

Steph xxx

*Some workshops not included and will require a separate purchase.