Cartoon Saloon, the Kilkenny based animation studio behind the Oscar nominated films ‘The Secret of Kells’ and ‘Song of the Sea’, have entered animation production on their latest feature film ‘The Breadwinner’. Based on the internationally acclaimed children’s novel by Deborah Ellis, ‘The Breadwinner’ tells the story of Parwana, a 12 year old girl growing up in Afghanistan in 2001.... Read more...
XpoNorth – Scotland’s leading creative industries festival is coming up! Taking place in Inverness on the 8th and 9th of June, the festival is a hot-bed of creative activity. The only festival of its kind in Scotland covering crafts, fashion and textiles; writing and publishing; screen and broadcast; and music. XpoNorth is a unique event in the UK’s cultural... Read more...
THE BRIDGE is an intensive 8 week programme that aims to take graduates and help to make them more “Industry Ready” by offering them the experience of the culture of business and the expectation of the delivery of outputs. The studios involved in the Bridge programme in previous years include Brown Bag Films, Havok, Riot Games, Jam Media, Piranhabar, Windmill... Read more...
Brown Bag Films is celebrating an Emmy® win for Bing in the Kids: Pre-school category at the 4th International Emmy® Kids Awards which took place last night in Cannes! Nicky Phelan, Director of Bing at Brown Bag Films, said “Bringing Bing and Flop from Ted Dewan’s books to life took the combined skills, talent and buckets of dedication from the... Read more...
Galway-based animation company Moetion Films has just won the prestigious Producer of the Year Award 2016 at the European Cartoon Movie Market in French city of Lyon, on March 4. The award is an acknowledgment of the company’s unprecedented success with their latest release Two by Two … Ooops The Ark Has Gone. Produced in their animation studio... Read more...