Cartoon Saloon and Director Nora Twomey’s debut animated feature, The Breadwinner, won four major accolades at the 2018 Emile Awards in Lille, France, including Best Direction, Best Storyboarding, Best Character Animation and Best Background and Character Design. The Breadwinner tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana, who gives up her identity to provide for her family and to try to save her father’s... Read more...
Remember the name – Irish animator Gary Gill is one to watch, thanks to his hit cartoon and new book, ‘The Day Henry Met’, writes Marie Toft. It was on Killiney Beach in Dublin when animator Gary Gill’s baby son Henry was learning to talk, that the inspiration began for the delightful The Day Henry Met animation series. “Henry was about... Read more...
Academy Award®-nominated Brown Bag Films, a subsidiary of 9 Story Media Group, has announced that its animated holiday special, Angela’s Christmas, is coming to Netflix from Friday, 30 November. The half-hour CG film is based on Frank McCourt’s only children’s book inspired by a story his mother Angela told him as a child. In 1997 McCourt won the Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling memoir, Angela’s... Read more...
Brown Bag Films donned their snazzy threads and ventured off to the BAFTA Children’s Awards on Sunday 25 November at the Roundhouse in London. This year the animation studio from Dublin saw four productions nominated for BAFTA Children’s Awards – Vampirina, Doc McStuffins, The Stinky and Dirty Show and Octonauts! Vampirina, Doc McStuffins and The Stinky and Dirty Show were all nominated for International Pre-school alongside Amazon Studios and Bix Pix Entertainment’s Tumble... Read more...
Screen Skills Ireland, formally Screen Training Ireland, today announced its new name at the inaugural Screen Industry Education Forum. The agency is also providing a new service which proactively maps career paths within the industry, with the launch of a brand new ‘Careers in Screen’ portal. Screen Skills Ireland is hosting the inaugural Screen Industry Education Forum, which aims to bring together screen... Read more...