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Cardel and Joseph Wallace reunite with Sparks for new Edgar Wright Documentary which Premiered at Sundance 2021, now in cinemas in Ireland!

Animation Director Joseph Wallace has created animated sequences for ‘The Sparks Brothers’ a new feature documentary film by Director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver). The film follows five decades of the iconic American pop-rock band Sparks and the founding brothers Ron and Russell Mael, drawing on archive, animation and interviews to bring their story to... Read more...

Brown Bag Films ‘Wild Kratts’ wins the Shaw Rocket Fund Kids’ Choice Award!

Brown Bag Films are thrilled to share that Wild Kratts has won the first-ever Shaw Rocket Fund Kids’ Choice Award presented at this year’s 2021 Canadian Screen Awards! Check out the Kratt Brothers video acceptance speech here! The Shaw Rocket Fund Kids’ Choice Award was developed for the CSAs with the goal of celebrating great Canadian content for kids, and to give those... Read more...

Doc McStuffins Wins 2021 NAMIC Vision Award!

The National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) have announced the winners of the 2021 NAMIC Vision Awards and we’re delighted to announce that Brown Bag Film’s Doc McStuffins has won Best Animation! The NAMIC Vision Awards honor original programming content created for television and digital platforms that best reflect the increasingly diverse, multiethnic and multicultural viewing audience. “Programmers and storytellers playing a pivotal role... Read more...

Pink Kong Studios “The Dead Hands of Dublin” recent wins and nominations

Pink Kong Studios short film “The Dead Hands of Dublin” was the winner of “Best Sound Design” at this year’s (virtual) Irish Animation Awards. The sound design and mix on animated short was carried out by the wonderfully talented Francisco Rios and Mark Fitzpatrick from our post house partners, Gorilla Post Productions. Along with this “The Dead Hands of Dublin”... Read more...

Pink Kong Studios AR Kids Game (Storyverse- Myth Masters) is in development

In June 2021 Screen Ireland and Animation Ireland announced its recipients of a new development fund “Animation Concept and Innovation Fund”. Pink Kong Studios is among the 10 projects selected and is now in development with this new innovative project. Project proposal: StoryVerse- Myth Masters is a multi-player augmented reality game for children consisting of highly entertaining gameplay coupled with engaging epic... Read more...