The Debutante- a film I scored and sound designed has been nominated for outstanding animated short at the Micheaux Film Festival

Feature film I scored is in a number of European festivals next month including Ghent Film Festival which is focussing on music in film.

https://www.filmfestival.be/en/film/edge-of-summer-11

Also Dinard

and Lucas Film Festival https://lucas-filmfestival.de/en/

The Debutante will be screening at the Micheaux Film Festival in LA this October!

Here’s the trailer:

This BAFTA nominated film I scored and sound designed is screening at London’s BFI on Friday 16th August at 18.10 NFT2 as part of a stop motion shorts program funded by the BFI with Q&A with film makers.

https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=stop-motion-shorts-scene-qanda&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::context_id=

Bafta Nominated (2024) film i scored and sound designed wins Best Animation at Midlands Movie Awards

We have also won the Director’s prize at the Oscar nominating Athens Film + Video Festival in Ohio USA and are going to screen at Turku Animated Film Festival in Finland in August. And excitingly we are part of the BFI Southbank Stop-Motion animation season – screening on August 16th in London, sponsored by LAIKA.

I composed the soundtrack with music and sound design for this animation( Samantha Moore) is  screens as part of the EXPLORE festival at La Baleine Marseille on Sat 1 June

Some excerpts from the soundtrack

Looking forward to going to the BAFTA’S!

You can watch the film i scored and sound designed here.

In cinemas in UK  I co-composed the score for:

https://www.nationaltheatrescotland.com/events/jekyll-hyde

Also on Sky Arts (Freeview) on 30 October at 9pm

Premiere of this film at EIFF 2023 tonight!

Re-united with director Hope Dickson Leach (The Levelling) to score this film adaptation of the Scottish National Theatre’s original play, along with music from Hudson Mohawke.

“The Debutante” directed by Elizabeth Hobbes (UK) — Winner

Ellen Jury Statement: “With a masterful, fluid use of ink, paint, collage and witty narration, this bold and humorous animated story unspools an act of rebellion, brilliantly challenging a class-based tradition. From a 1930s story by surrealist artist Lenora Carrington, a spirited woman persuades a hyena from the London Zoo to take her place at a party in her honor. The results are fun and startling.”

ANIMATION

“The Debutante” directed by Elizabeth Hobbs (UK) — Winner

Jury Statement: “This short embodies the highly charged political commentary and witty satire of its source material in its frenetic form, managing to be both uncomfortable and funny as it is incisive.”

A list of all the awards and selections for this award winning film I scored (by Elizabeth Hobbs and Animate Productions)

The awards to date are:

• Grand Prix, the Golden Pegasus at the 15th International Animated Film Festival ANIMATOR 2022, Poland
• Grand Prize, International Competition Short Film at Bucheon International Animation Festival 2022, South Korea
• Animated Short Jury Award at SXSW 2023, USA
• Melies D’Argent/Silver Melies Award for the Best European Fantastic Short Film at San Sebastian Horror and Fantasy Film Festival 2022, Spain
• Lab Special Jury Prize at the 45th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
• Bronze Jabberwocky prize, at Etiuda & Anima 2022, Poland
• Yarnspinner’s Favourite: Special Mention, at Animist Tallinn 2022, Estonia
• Prix Sauvage (Wild-Untamed Award) and the Prix de la Spontanéité (Spontaneity Award) at the Paris International Animation Film Festival 2023, France
• Shortlisted for the Animated Short Film Award at the 95th Academy Awards 2023
• Candidate for European Short Film at the European Film Awards 2023 (announcing December 2023)

The most recent festival selections and screenings are:

• Official Selection, Paris International Animation Film Festival, France, January 2023
• Official Selection, 16th British Shorts Film Festival, Germany, January 2023
• Official Selection for the Lab Competition, 45th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France, January-February 2023
• Selected for Animated Womxn Programme, Manipulate Festival, United Kingdom, February 2023
• Official Selection for Shorts 3, Animac, Spain, February 2023
• Official Selection for International Competition – Professional Short Films, Anima 2023, Brussels, February 2023
• Official Selection, Animated Shorts, South by Southwest Film and TV Festival, United States, March 2023
• Official Selection, International Competition, Tampere Film Festival, Finland, March 2023
• Official Selection, International Competition, TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES 2023, Austria, March 2023
• Official Selection, Cardiff Animation Festival, United Kingdom, March 2023
• Official Selection, REGARD – Festival international du court métrage au Saguenay, Canada, March-April 2023
• Official Selection, Kaboom Animation Festival, The Netherlands, March-April 2023
• Official Selection, 32nd Aspen Shortsfest, United States, April 2023
• Official Selection, International Competition, 30th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, Germany, April 2023
• Official Selection, International Competition, 35th Filmfest Dresden, Germany, April 2023
• Official Selection, Grand Competition – Short Film, Animafest Zagreb, Croatia, June 2023