The degree show is going up fast and our students are getting their clothes, fingers and feet dirty for the good of the viewing public. Excellent industry abounds! Don't touch the walls though...
Nearly time to get the big vacuum cleaner out. Oh, and maybe the paint remover...
Lecturer Veselina Dashinova took part in the Dresden Animation Exchange Forum. In collaboration with Uri Alonim and Anita Muller she projected her animation onto the facade of Thalia Theater, as filmmakers walked out of the award ceremony... accompanied by live music.
The 8th Festival Internacional de Curtmetratges Mas Sorrer, in Gualta, Spain has requested that 'Fourth Assessment Report' the second year film by Liam Harris be screened at their festival.
Graduation films from 2012 continue to do well around the world with ‘Lofty Thirst’ by 2012 graduate Febrianto Pudi Utama making the semi-final of the 2013 Adobe Design Achievement Awards. The very popular ‘Cake’ by Quentin Darrass was screened at the 23rd filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the festival of film and art, held in Schwerin, Northern Germany. ‘What Mary Knew’ by Jessica Knights has been invited to Womanimation! 2013 celebration of international women’s animated short film stories in Providence, RI.
'Message to Man' which takes place in St.Petersburg, Russia has requested ‘Good Evening, Mr Smith’ (pictured above) by Quentin Darras and ‘Off the Grid’ by Victoria Smith for their festival selection.
‘Eep & Uff’ by Joanna Brooks was screened at Cinema Planeta Film Festival in Mexico in April and Screentest in London in March and will be shown Cinéfeuille Film Festival in Gaillac in France in May
Yey! Joanna Quinn finally made it after the snow cleared - around Farnham anyway. Amazing and insightful lecture and workshop! All our students that were lucky enough to experience Joanna's workshop made amazing progress with their animation skills in just a few hours. Brilliant!
Farnham alumni Chloe Rodham continues to make a name for herself as a director and animator winning $5000 from Genero.tv for her video 'My December', a song by Scala and Kolacny Brothers. Chloe has not decided how to spend the money yet but we continue to send her suggestions just to get her started - mostly egg based ideas so far but this is likely to change as we push on through the Easter period. Her beautiful and atmospheric film can be viewed here: http://genero.tv/blog/2013/scala-my-december-music-video/
Big congratulations to current MA student Marina Koleva who is the European winner of the BBC What If? competition. Aardman's Steven Harding-Hill in judging the competition spoke very highly of her piece, a dark and scary vision of the future. Says Steven 'I felt compassion for this character and I found that it contains real human emotion'. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21887443
Quentin Darras' graduation film Cake has been invited to screen at the 23rd filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the festival of film and art, held in Schwerin, Northern Germany where the focus this year is on British film. Hamburg International Short Film Festival (4 – 10 June). Quentin is both talented and French.
Well done also to undergraduate Lawrence Vincent (from St.Annes!!!) who has had his 2nd year film 'Koala' shortlisted for the Freshly Squeezed Film Festival.
http://www.freshlysqueezedfest.com/films#animation
Congratulations are also in order for Jamie Kendal who graduated in 2012 and has just been accepted onto the RCA animation MA in the UK's famous London town.
Happy to report also that graduate Sally Ann Hickman has been accepted onto the MA in Illustration at Camberwell.
Excitingly, our French correspondent reports that Joanna Brooks, a 2012 graduate who's film 'Eep and Uff' was made specifically for younger audiences, is about to start talks with KMBO in France who are very interested in distributing her film for theatrical release. Stand by for merchandising......
Course leader, Lesley Adams was interviewed for the Animation Career Review recently and you can read her illuminating views and unique insights on animation and education here: http://www.animationcareerreview.com/articles/university-creative-arts-f...
Congratulations to Farnham Alumni Tony Donoghue who has won the prestigious Best Animation Award at the Sundance Film Festival 2013. Irish Folk Furniture is a magical and often funny stop-motion animation documentary about antique furniture in and around his home in Eire.
A Liar's Autobiography, the animated film about the life and times of Monty Python star Graham Chapman, has come to the end of it's cinema run and so it can now be revealed that Farnham Alumni, Daniel Chester was one of the contributors. He now directs animation through Beakus and is part of Moth Collective. You can view his excellent work here:http://beakus.com/blog/a-liars-autobiography/
Well done to 2012 graduate Dan Ruiz who has been taken on as a director at Kode Media. Dan's graduation film 'Displacement' has been accepted into the 15th edition of the "Festival International des Très Courts" (Very Short International Film Festival) which will take place from April 26th to May 5th 2013 in Paris and simultaneously in 80 cities around the world! 'Good Evening Mr.Smith' by Quentin Darras and 'Woof Woof' by David Woof are also included in the line-up.Good luck to graduate Jamie Kendal and current 3rd year Lukas Hawes - both have made it to the interview stage at the Royal College of Art.
Sadly, Bob Godfrey, the animation legend and founder of Farnham's animation degree course has died this week. As a teacher and genuine maverick he had endless great advice - Stick to the impossible, he tells his students. Once you've learnt the rules, break them. "I teach the basics of animation, then it's up to the individual. Great illustrators don't always make great animators. I've known people who couldn't draw at all who were great animators. You can always spot the ones with real talent. They don't listen to you." He will be sadly missed and our thoughts are with his family. Read his obituary in the Guardian here http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2013/feb/22/bob-godfrey1
Chris Butler, who graduated from UCA Farnham's BA (Hons) Animation degree in 1995, has been shortlisted for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards for his film ParaNorman which he wrote and directed.
‘Cake’ the Graduation short by Quentin Darass has been invited to be screened at Filmfestival Emden – Norderney in Germany.
‘Foxtrot’ the second year film by Jennifer Haugan has been selected for the Madeira Film Festival, and the Regensburg Short Film Week.
‘The Laughing Policeman’ the Graduation Film by Marcus Armitage has been shortlisted for a Royal Television Society Student Award.
‘Woof Woof’ the second year film by David Woof has been selected for the Super-Short Competition at MONSTRA Film Festival in Portugal.
An exciting and successful start to the year for our recent graduates and current students as several films are included in the 10th London Short Film Festival which runs from January 4th - 13th at various venues across London. Above is ‘Eureka!’ by current year 3 student Piers Mearns which features in the ‘Comedy’ programme on the 4th.
Another current student, Lukas Hawes, has his short film ‘TION’ included in the ‘Lo-budget’ screening along with Quentin Darras' graduation film, 'Cake'. ‘What Mary Knew’ by Jessica Knights will be screened as part of the ‘Femmes Fantastique’ programme. They will all be shown at the ICA on January 5th.
Graduation films ‘The New and the Other’ by Joseph Carauna and ‘Keep walking’ by Dan Ruiz feature in the ‘Landscapes and Light’ and the 'Music Video' programmes respectively.
The Farnham Animation course ended another successful year with Graduate Marcus Armitage winning the Best Animation Prize at the THIS IS ENGLAND festival In Rouen for his second year film ‘Circle Line’.
Several of our students and Graduates made the trip across the channel to take part in Festival Q&A’s and see their work screened at the Festival including Jennifer Haugan ‘Foxtrot’, Quentin Darras ‘Obsolete 2.0’, Joanna Brooks ‘Puzzle the Cat’ and Connor Attoe ‘Partners in Mime’.
Oscar winning Film maker and Farnham Alumni, Michael Dudok de Wit gave a genuinely inspiring talk to a packed lecture theatre of BA and MA animation students during induction week. Afterwards he thanked the course for providing him with such “a big and nice audience!” The course team were also able to reunite him with his 16mm prints of his student films – including a film he has not seen since 1977!!!
Third year Ben Oren has had some of his work selected to be screened on the world-famous billboard at Piccadilly Circus in London.
His animation will be shown as part of a special film montage to celebrate National Poetry Day on 4th October. All of the work selected to be screened was created in response to the Charles Causley poem "I Am the Song". http://www.ideastap.com/Opportunities/Brief/19424ae7-794a-417e-b223-a084...
"The New and the Other" by Graduate Joseph Carauna (pictured below) has been selected for the competition of the 22th "Les Nuits Magiques" International Animated Film Festival. http://www.lesnuitsmagiques.fr/
Graduates Jessica Knights and Joseph Carauna have both been picked out as ‘names to watch’ by Encounters Artistic Director, Mark Cosgrove.
They have been invited to take part in Future Encounters showcase of 10 international film-makers, directors, writers, animators, artists whose work demonstrates distinctive vision and flare. They will be profiled online in the run up to the Encounters and during the festival itself. http://www.encounters-festival.org.uk/jessica-knights.html
'The New and the Other' the 2011 Graduation film by Joseph Carauna is being screened before the main feature on Saturday 15th September at the open air ‘West'ival’ festival in Amsterdam.
‘Keep Walking’ the second year film by 2012 Graduate Dan Ruiz has been shortlisted for DepicT! 2012 part of 18th Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival.
Dan’s film is one of 15 selected from over 600 entries from 30 different countries you can view it now at here http://www.depict.org/2012/keep-walking/?category_request=2012
Since Graduating from Farnham in July, Dan has been working with the Just So studio for several major clients including DHL, Nike, Nokia and The Darkness
Eight second and third year films from Farnham have been selected to screen in competition at Brief Encounters as part of Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival 2012. The films selected are from this year’s Graduates ‘Good Evening Mr Smith’ by Quentin Darras(see pic above), ‘What Mary Knew‘ by Jessica Knights and ‘The Laughing Policeman’ by Marcus Armitage.
As well as the honour of been selected they are also eligible for the Animated Encounters Grand Prix Award with a prize of £2,000. Good Luck to all!!! We could do with a pint!
The second year films selected are ‘Foxtrot‘by Jennifer Haugan and ‘Fourth Assessment Report’ by Liam Harris (pictured above).
Further films selected from our 2011 Graduates are ‘Ever Hear a Postman Whistle?’ by Becky Bush and ‘The New and the Other’ by Joseph Carauna.
2012 Graduate Quentin Darras’s very short, short ‘Cake’ has been invited to the Young Directors Forum, a short-film competition which will take place in Crans-Montana (Switzerland) from the 12th to the 16th of December 2012.
BBC 2’s ‘Seeking Refuge’ series of five short films has won a BAFTA and two of those five films were animated by recent Farnham Graduates, Tom Senior and Jon Topf. Jon also recently returned to Farnham to teach a series of specialist CG classes with the current third years. You can see the films here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00vdxny
‘What Mary Knew’ by Graduate Jessica Knight is in competition at the ETIUDA & ANIMA 2012, International Film Festival in Krakow, Poland.
Farnham Graduate Vida Vega’s ad ‘Bike’Tempo is in competition at Klik Amsterdam film Festival. The ad was produced by Farnham Lecturer and Executive Producer at the Film Club, Sue Loughlin. The ad has already won a Silver Shark in the Best Animated TV category at the Kinsale Shark Awards and Best 2D animated commercial at the British Animation Awards earlier this year.
Vida came back to Farnham on the 2nd November to share her experiences of the industry with the current students.
‘Save me’ the seminal film by Farnham Lecturer Stuart Hilton was screened at the Flip Animation Festival in Wolverhampton, alongside recent visiting lecturers Robert Morgan's ‘Bobby yeah’ and Grant Orchard's BAFTA winning, Oscar nominated ‘A Morning Stroll’.
The key speaker at the festival was Farnham alumni Cyriak Harris.
Graduation films ‘‘Off-Grid’ by Victoria Smith, ‘Eep and Uff’ by Joanna Brooks, and second year films ‘Woof Woof’ by David Woof (pictured above) and ‘Puzzle the cat by Joanna Brooks have been invited to be screened at FIFE – Environmental International Film Festival in Paris.
Graduation films ‘Lightbulb’, ‘Cake’ and ‘Good Evening Mr.Smith’ by Quentin Darras have been invited to be screened at the Cristal Festival in France.
"When I Was Young" the Graduation Film by Kaori Onishi has been invited to be screened at
the New York International Children's Film Festival.
PauseFest Digital festival in Melbourne Australia, is taking place at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. The screenings have been curated by Farnham Graduate Andrew Hibberd.
Six films from Farnham have been selected for the 10th London Short Film Festival 2013.
They include 3 second year films ‘Eureka!’ by Piers Mearns , ‘TION’ by Lukas Hawes and ‘Keep walking’ by Dan Ruiz. Stand by for more updates on which programmes the 6 films will feature in.
Graduation films ‘The New and the Other’ by Joseph Carauna, ‘What Mary Knew’ by Jessica Knights and ‘Cake’ by Quentin Darras will also be screened at the 10th London Short Film Festival 2013.
‘Daddy's Little Bit of Dresden China’, the BAFTA winning, Graduation film by Karen Watson, has won ‘Best British Film’ in the Human Rights section at the BANG Nottingham Film Festival 2012. This seminal film was made at Farnham in 1988.
Senior Lecturer, Sue Loughlin was on the voting panel for ChildLine's 'Create and Make' competition held in association with BAFTA. Other panel members included Blue Peter presenter Andy Akinwoleree and comedy script writer Elly Brewer.
'Stanley’, the 1999 Graduation film by Oscar winning, Suzie Templeton is being screened at the ‘Sexuality at Home’ conference in London. The conference has been organised by Ellie Land and Alys Scott Hawkins. Fellow Farnham alumni, Tim Webb's film '15th February' is also been screened at the conference.
'Full English' the second year film by Ben Oren has been shortlisted for Cinemagic Young Filmmaker 2012 competition.
Second year, Jasmine Ive reached the final ten of the Rank Gongman 2012 competition.
‘Eep & Uff’ the Graduation film by Joanna Brooks has been selected for the Non Competitive Short Film Section “Eco Kids” of the 30th Environmental International Film Festival 2013, which will take place in February at the Cinéma des Cinéastes in Paris.
‘Obsolete 2.0’ the second year film by Graduate Quentin Darras has been selected for the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.
No fewer than 16 of our students' film have been chosen to be screened at THIS IS ENGLAND in Rouen, France between November 27 and December 8, 2012.
The judging panel were so impressed by the quality of the films received that they decided to raise the number of films in competition for the best film prize of 1000 € and have an additional screening ‘off competition’ screening with a prize of 500 € for that winner.
The competing students have also been invited to attend the Festival by the Director to meet the audience, fellow cinema students and the Press.
The films selected for competition are, ‘Woof, Woof’ by David Woof, ‘Foxtrot’ by Jennifer Haugan, ‘TION’ by Lukas Hawes (pictured top), ‘The Fourth Assessment’ by Liam Harris (pictured above), ‘The New and the Other’ by Joseph Carauna, ‘What Mary knew’ by Jessica Knights, ‘Circle Line’ and ‘The Laughing Policeman’ both by Marcus Armitage.
The films selected ‘off competition’ are ‘Lucky Strike’ by Ben Greenwood (pictured above), ‘Scatterbrain’ by Chris MacFarlane, ‘Puzzle the Cat’ by Joanna Brookes, ‘Partners in Mime’ by Connor Attoe, ‘Reginald Hobblegobble….’ by Scott Willetts and ‘Obselete 0.2’, ‘Lightbulb’ and ‘Good Evening Mr.Smith’ three shorts by Quentin Darras,
"When I Was young” by Kaori Onishi has been selected for competition at the London International Animation Festival and the 31th edition of Ciné-Jeune Film Festival in Saint-Quentin.
After its screening at Annecy, ‘When I was young’ by 2011 Graduate Kaori Onishi has been invited to be screened at the International Children and Teenagers Ciné Junior Film Festival near Paris.
Our very own Senior Lecturer Andy Joule got Special Jury Mention at the Open Cinema Short & Animated Film Festival in St Petersburg for his short film 'ellipsis'. It’s Russia’s largest art house film festival and he a got a nice certificate and some beers which he maintains he drank in the comfort of his 5 star hotel room. http://opencinemafest.com/festivals/y2012/winners_2012/
2012 Graduate Jessica Knight successfully completed her work experience at Arthur Cox in Bristol. Producer Sarah Cox said she was very "talented and a great help on the job - our best work experience person so far!" Jessica is currently in development on a project for Channel 4.
Eight of our second year students are undertaking work experience over the summer at the National Film & Television School. They are all working on the Graduation films that are currently in production at the NFTS.
'Ever hear a Postman Whistle' the OU/BBC Creative Climate Film by 2011 Graduate Bexie Bush will be screened at Monterey California July 25th 2012
'ellipsis' by Senior Lecturer Andy Joule has been selected to be screened at the Open Cinema Film Festival in St.Petersburg, Russia in 27th July - 3rd August.
The latest showreel from our 2012 Graduates is now available to view in the 'showreels' menu. Or you could just click here:
http://farnhamanimation.com/page/showreels/2012-graduate-showreel
Tutor technician Jon Hunt has has been named the winner of the Times Higher Education Unsung Hero Twitter competition. He had been nominated for his work on the course – Congratulations Jon!
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode...
'When I Was Young' the 2011 Graduation film by Kaori Onishi has been selected for the 'Graduation films in Competition' at Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2012. Also selected for competition is 'Within Within' by 2009 Graduate Sharon Liu.
'When I Was Young' by Kaori Onishi also been invited to be screened at the New York International Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) 2013.
Senior Lecturer Stuart Hilton has his seminal 1994 film Save me included in the Move on Up film programme for Art on the Underground’s Canary Wharf Screen which runs from 31 May to 26 August 2012 in London. The screening has been organised by Animate Projects.
"Britain" the 2011 Graduation film by Becky Bush was shortlisted for a the National Undergraduate Award at the Royal Television Society Student Television Awards 2011 at the Barbican in London.
Third year Marcus Armitage has been offered a place on the MA Animation course at the Royal College of Art.
"When I Was Young" the 2011 Graduation film by Kaori Onishi has been included on the British Animation Awards 2012, “Best of B.A.A. Volume 9” DVD available from their website www.britishanimationawards.com.
Senior Lecturer Andy Joule’s short film ‘ellipsis’ was shortlisted for the Royal Academy’s 2012 Summer Show.
Third year Marcus Armitage has had his film proposal ‘Hello, Bonjour’ selected for the Languages through Lenses competition 2012. His pitch was selected from 129 applications from 19 countries. He will now take part in the ‘Languages through Lenses’ Workshop in Amsterdam in April 2012.
Graduate Becky Bush won the Best Film at the National Student Film Festival in London with her film 'Ever Hear A Postman Whistle?' The film was commissioned by the BBC and Open University while Becky was still at University.
Third year student Jessica Knight has animated on a film supported by the Wellcome Trust. The film is a satire on the way government health initiatives, target the entirety of a population (cheap alcohol?) whilst failing to make any significant impact on those who need it. The film features comedy double act Timandra Harkness and Matt Parker.
Jessica has also filmed live debates at the Battle of Ideas and will be filming the Bloomberg award ceremony at the Tate Modern in London.
Lecturer Veselina Dashinova and Graduate Yui Hamagashira have collaborated on a film which is part of major new exhibition Victoria Revealed. The films start the countdown to the re-opening of Kensington Palace on the 26 March 2012.
http://www.hrp.org.uk/KensingtonPalace/WhatsOn/victoria4albert
Animation alumni won five coveted prizes at the British Animation Awards.
2009 Graduate Vida Vega won Best 2D Commercial for her Tempo Bike advertisement. The commercial was produced by tutor Sue Loughlin at the Film Club.
The Public Choice Award was won by 2008 graduate, Francesca Adams for her short film Bertie Crisp.
Grant Orchard took home Best Short Film for A Morning Stroll which has already earned him a BAFTA and Oscar nomination this year.
Chloe Rodham also won a BAA for her sting ‘Skyhounds’.
Peppa Pig creator, Mark Baker who graduated from UCA Farnham in 1982, picked up Best Pre-School Series for Ben & Holly’s Little Kingdom: Acorn Day.
Third year Scott Willetts worked on the British Animation Award winning Pilsner advert "The Day Pilsen Struck Gold" by director Chris Randall at Second Home Studios.
BA (Hons) Animation course leader, Lesley Adams, said: “I'm really happy to see recent graduates, like Chloe Rodham, Vida Vega and Francesca Adams, making a name for themselves alongside our more well-known and established industry names.
“WHAT IF?” by third year students Mark Benson and Germaine Colajanni will be screened at the biggest environmental film festival in the world, REEL Earth Film Festival in New Zealand. The film was commissioned by the BBC and Open University as part of the Creative Climate Competition.
The Film is also to be used as an educational tool for promoting animation and environmental issues to children in India for the World Kids International Film Festival 2012.
Senior Lecturer Stuart Hilton was invited to speak at the 'Committed' animation symposium at Leeds Metropolitan University alongside other award winning animation filmmakers such as Merlin Crossingham from Aardman and Sarah Cox from ArthurCox.
Kaori Onishi’s Graduation film has been selected to be screened at the Holland Animation Film Festival 2012.
Graduate Becky Bush won the Best Animation at the Future Film Festival at the BFI in London with her film “Ever Hear A Postman Whistle?” The film was commissioned by the BBC and Open University while Becky was still at University.
In an interview in the New Current, Becky said the best advice she had ever been given was by Course Leader, Lesley Adams -the advice - to show your personality through your film making!
This success completes a remarkable couple of weeks for Becky. As well as winning major prizes at the RTS and Future Film Festival with two different films, she has also just taken up a place at the National Film and Television School to study Animation Direction. Congratulations all around!
‘Britain’ by Becky Bush won the Royal Television Society Best Student Animation Award. The film had earlier made the long list for the BAFTA’s. Here's Course Leader Lesley Adams with a fist full of lovely, shiny awards!
Farnham animation students made up two of the three shortlisted nominees.
Course Leader, Lesley Adams has contributed to an Education Special for the Spring issue of Imagine Animation. The article will look at the growing debate around vocational training vs academic achievement, and where the balance to success should lie.
’Ellipsis’ by Senior Lecturer Andy Joule been selected for the 'Panorama' programme at the 7th Athens Animfest and the Corfu Animation Festival. It will also be shown at the Falmouth Art Gallery in the UK.
'Electreecity' by Sarah Duffield Harding and Sarah Davison will be included in screening of stop-motion work curated by Professor Paul Wells at 11th Anifest in the Czech Republic.
‘Britain’ by Becky Bush and ‘The New and The Other’ by Joseph Carauna have been nominated for the Royal Television Society Best Student Animation Awards.
Grant Orchard, a Farnham Animation Graduate, picked up the Best Short Animation BAFTA for A Morning Stroll which he made in his spare time at Studio AKA.
Grant was up against fellow UCA Farnham graduate, Robert Morgan, who was also nominated for his short animated film Bobby Yeah at the Royal Opera House last night.
Robert came back to Farnham the next day to give a lecture to the current students. So many students turned up to see him they were sitting in the aisles – his films and his talk went down a storm. Thanks Rob and come back soon!
‘When I Was Young’ by Kaori Onishi has been selected for competition in the European student films category of the Holland Animation Film Festival 2012.
The British Animation Awards Public Choice screenings are returning to Farnham this month. The screenings will take place on the 24th & 31st of January and the 7th February. Tickets cost £3 are available from the Animation Department, UCA Farnham 01252 892817.
Two animation graduates from UCA at Farnham will be battling it out for a BAFTA Award next month.
Grant Orchard's film 'A Morning Stroll' is up against Robert Morgan's 'Bobby Yeah' for the Best Short Animation, which will be revealed during the televised ceremony at the Royal Opera House on 12 February 2012.
Robert, who is 37 and grew up in Yateley, Hampshire, said: "Quite simply, UCA let me make the films I wanted to make, and supported me in doing so. That's been the groundwork in everything I've done since."
Grant, who is about to return to UCA as a visiting lecturer, added: "The Animation course at UCA Farnham was a brilliant platform. Narrative, narrative, narrative as we used to get taught, still stays with me today."
Graduate Chloe Rodham won the 'Open/Drawn' category of the Red Bull Canimation contest. Her winning short film Skyhound was featured in a Red Bull takeover of the advertisement break on Channel 4, E4, More 4 and Film 4 on Monday 9 January 2012. Bexie Bush, another Graduate from Farnham, was also one of the Canimation finalists in the Open/Stop-motion category.
Judging for the competition was shared between the public and a panel of esteemed animation experts from The Mill, 12foot6, Aardman, The British Animation Awards and 4Creative, with the winners announced at Empire in London's Leicester Square.
Since leaving UCA, Chloe has made animations for ITV, the Labour Party and a music video for DeVotchKa. "Chosing to studying animation at UCA has been crucial to my career - the portfolio and showreel I developed has been invaluable to me finding work since graduating. As well as teaching vital techniques and providing inspiration and advice, the tutors at UCA helped me gain the confidence to promote my work."
'Britain' the Graduation film by Bexie Bush has progressed through to Round Two* (the Long List) of the Short Animation Award of the BAFTA's. Congratulations and fingers crossed for Bexie!
Senior Lecturer Andy Joule has had his film Ellipsis selected for the 'Panorama' programme at the 7th Athens Animfest, International Festival of Animation, 2012.
Two Farnham Graduates have had their films shortlisted for the Red Bull Canaimation competition. Chloe Rodham has been shortlisted for her film 'Skyhound' (see above) and Bexie Bush with her short 'Canned Laughter'. The winners will be announced at the Red Bull Canimation Awards Ceremony at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square on December 15th.
'Canned Laughter' by Bexie Bush makes the Red Bull 'Canimation' competition shortlist.
Simon and Sara Bor, have been nominated for 'Best Animation' at the Children's BAFTA awards for their 'Grizzly Tales' series which is screened on Nickelodeon. Simon and Sara graduated from Farnham in the 1970's and shortly after formed their company Honeycomb Animations.
The British Animation Awards Public Choice screenings are returning to Farnham next year. The screenings will take place on the 24th & 31st of January and the 7th February. Tickets cost £3 are available from the Animation Department, UCA Farnham 01252 892817.
Congratulations to first year animator Jack Payne for having his work selected for Radio 1's Scott Mills show. This is a great start for Jack who has also been invited up to Carlisle for the Premiere of the film next week. There was a quick turn around with the brief with only 3 days to come up with the finished sequence. Well done to everyone else who took part as well.
Many of the Abbayes past residencies have gone on to make multi- award winning films, such as the Oscar and BAFTA nominated 'The Monk and the Fish ' by Farnham alumni Michael Dudok de Wit.
Graduate Giulia Ghiana and 3rd year Marcus Armitage teamed up again to create an ad for Ecovision produced by Space City Productions .The ad was aired on the 28th October and can be found on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4FMU4geKbg&feature=player_embedded
Giulia and Marcus first worked together on her film 'It'll be alright' which was Giulia's commission for the Languages through the Lens project.
'Britain' the Graduation film by Becky Bush has won the 'UK Competition' at Glimmer : The 9th Hull International Short Film Festival Festival.
Kaori Onishi's Graduation film 'When I was young' has been selected for the NEU/NOW online Film Festival.
Graduate Chloe Rodham has created a short film, with a voice over by Tony Robinson, for the Back the Apple www.backtheapple.com campaign that is being launched by the Labour Party at their conference in Liverpool.
Joanna Brooks had both of her second year films - 'Puzzle Cat' and 'Armless Love' - accepted into FLIP International Animation Festival, in Wolverhampton. FLIP will alo be screening the Graduation film 'When I was Young' by Kaori Onishi and 'The Brownie Story' by Jane Taylor.
'When I was young" the Graduation film by Kaori Onishi has been shortlisted for the ‘Best British Film’ award and "Best British Up and Coming Animation Talent" at Canterbury Anifest.It has also been selected for the Animated Dreams Animation Film Festival Estonia, in November.
‘The New and the Other’ the Graduation film by Joseph Carauna is one of the 35 art projects from 17 countries selected to feature in the live NEU/NOW LIVE Festival 2011, that will take place in Tallinn, European Capital of Culture 2011, Estonia in November this year. www.neunow.com
Senior lecturer Andy Joule has had his MA Graduation film ‘Ellipsis’ selected for screening at Chronos Film Festival in Albuquerque, USA and the Cornwall Film Festival in the UK.
Also, Graduate Rebecca Archer has gained a place on the Animation Direction course at the National Film and Television School so well done to her!
Senior Lecturer, Stuart Hilton took part in a panel discussion entitled 'Watch Us Move: An Evening with Animate Projects' at the Barbican in London. The screening and discussion were organised as part of the major animation exhibition 'Watch Me Move' which runs until September 11th 2011.
'Smile' by Chloe Rodham was shown at the Barbican in London.
Victoria Smith, who is about to begin the final year of her BA (Hons) Animation degree at UCA Farnham, gained a month’s work experience on Tim Burton’s new animated movie Frankenweenie.
Third year Kaori Onishi attended the Sky Arts Sting Awards at Sky's headquarters in London. Her idea for a sting made the final shorlist.
The Graduation Show for BA (Hons) Animation took place in Farnham. Award winners on the night including Joseph Carauna (Best Film & Student Prize), Fern Bailey (Best Script) and Becky Bush (Best Animation). Becky received her Award from former Farnham student and multi- award winning animation director, Darren Walsh. it was a great night and for those of you who could not make it, showreels are available.
First year Jennifer Haugan has been shorlisted in Picturing Time Competition organised by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers.
Giulia Ghiani’s film proposal " IT'LL BE ALRIGHT " was selected by an international jury to take part in the ‘Languages through Lenses’ workshop in Amsterdam (16 - 18 May 2011). The finished film will then be screened at the PRIX EUROPA Festival in Berlin (25 - 27 October 2011). Giulia’s proposal was selected from 113 eligible applications from 19 different countries.
Becky Bush (year three) and Mark Benson (year two) have had their film ideas commissioned by the BBC and Open University as part of the Creative Climate Competition. The BBC received 86 entries in total and Becky and Mark were shortlisted to the final 20 with 10 films chosen to be made.
They both had to pitch their film ideas at the BBC Television Centre in front of a high profile and distinguished panel chaired by Lord Puttnam CBE (Oscar winning director of Chariots of Fire). The panel also included Jon Plowman-BBC comedy executive producer, Dr. Joe Smith-Senior lecturer in Environment at the Open University, Olivia Williams-Television and Film actor, Nick Fraser-BBC commissioning editor for documentaries and Roger Harrabin-BBC environment analyst.
This was an incredibly tough pitch and both students individually received praise from the panel for their professionalism, creativity, humour and originality.
The finished films will be screened and promoted by the BBC and both students also receive a cash prize of £500.
Chloe Rodham won Best Animation for her second year film ‘Sprinkles’ at the National Student Film Festival, sponsored by BAFTA in London. Second year Joanna Brooks was also shortlisted for her film ‘Puzzle the Cat’.
In total nine Farnham films were screened at the festival including second year films by Elizabeth Yau, Simon Hurdle, Marie Sato, Lauren Sunderland, Andy Williams and Dan Ruiz.
Kaori Onishi has been shortlisted for the Sky Arts sting competition.
The animation students were treated to three keynote lectures that covered a range of industry professionals. First off was Andy Brunton key animator at Lionhead who talked about Games design. Award winning and controversial film maker Phil Mulloy came in two days later and finally Merlin Crossingham Creative Director at Aardman Animation wrapped up a great week on the course.
Matt Cunningham had his short ‘Lisbon Stomp’ selected for the Monstra Animation Festival in Lisbon.
Course Leader Lesley Adams and tutor Andy Joule both received Teaching Excellence Awards at the Learning and Teaching conference in London.
Vida Vega was profiled in Digital Arts magazine http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/?newsId=3257372
2009 graduate Jonathan Topf directed and fellow graduate Vida Vega animated the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures 2010 title sequence for BBC4
Oscar winner and Farnham Graduate, Daniel Greaves came to talk to the animation students about his experience of film making, the industry and running his successful studio Tandem for twenty five years.
Mercy Ty’s second year film ‘I AM DYSLEXIA’ has been accepted as a finalist in this years ANIMAHENASYON, Philippine Animation Festival.
‘Neonatal’ by 2010 Graduate Sam Lehane has been nominated for the Best of Animation award as part of Exposures 2010.
Fellow Graduates Chloe Rodham with her film ‘Smile’ and Luke Simpson with his film ‘The Grendal Scratchmander’ have also had their work selected for the festival.
First year student Victoria Smith’s film ‘The Storm Dragon’, inspired by Ray Harryhausen’s skeleton sequence in ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ won the Ray Harryhausen Stop Motion Animation competition.
Congratulations go to Victoria who has spent her summer not only on this, but filming for the BBC at Wimbledon amongst other work experiences!
‘Betty’s’ by Becky Bush was selected for the NAHEMI screening at Exposures in Bristol.
‘The Illusionist’ by Amy Nicholls has been accepted into the Strawberry Shorts Festival in Cambridge.
Chloe Rodham Graduation film ‘Smile’ was profiled on the Stopframe blog www.stopframeblog.com/
‘Betty’s’ by Becky Bush was awarded second prize at the Twin Rivers Media Festival. It was also screened at the 38th Festival of Nations, Ebensee Austria
'Betty’s’ by Becky Bush was screened at the East End Festival
'The Illusionist’ by Amy Nicholls has been accepted into Stamford Childrens Film Festival.
‘Bingo’ by Luke Carlton got into the Melbourne Film Festival Deepfried Festival.
2009 graduate Vida Vega has been nominated in the Student categories and Public Choice British Animation Awards for both her graduation film 'A dog for every balcony' and '/mi'au, myau/'
‘Betty’s’ by Becky Bush has been accepted into ‘Stoke your Fires’ Festival
‘War, Snow and Fire’ the Graduation film by Kostas Skiftas won the Grand Prize and a cheque for £1000 at Canterbury Anifest. It also won the award for Best Creative Sound.'Black Grapes of the Chest' by
Yui Hamagashira will be screened at the 6th London Short Film Festival as part of the Music video screening
'Said the Fly' by Yui Hamagashira will be screened at the 6th London Short Film Festival as part of the LEFTFIELD & LUCIOUS experimental category.
'Umbilical' by Rowan Gray was screened in the Film Schools of the World at l'Alternativa 2009 - 16th Barcelona Independent Film Festival.
'16th Lesson' by Lewis Darby was screened at the Encounters Film festival in Bristol
'The Illusionist' by Amy Nicholls was screened at the "Young London film festival".
'Draw' by Peter Laugessen was screened in Competition at FIKE 2009 - 8th Évora International Short Film Festival.
'Audiolichter' by Vicky Craxton was screened at the Picturedrome in Northampton
Graduate Vida Vega’s film ‘mi’au, my’au’ was screened and came 3rd overall in the Prix Europa Festival in Berlin.
Tutor Lesley Adams organised a screening and panel discussion at the Lightbox in Woking.
Rowan Greys 2008 Graduation film ‘Umbilical’ won Best Animated film at Wimbledon shorts film festival and was nominated for Best Student film at Stoke your Fires festival.
Vida Vega’s script ‘mi’au, my’au’ was selected for the ‘Languages through Lenses’ project and will now be screened in the Prix Europa festival in Berlin. Her script was one of 122 proposals from students studying at art schools in 18 European Union states as well as Norway and Turkey and was selected by an international jury.
Recent Graduates Tom Senior and current third years Yui Hamagashira, Sharon Sum Liu and Peter Laugesen have all been offered places on the prestigious MA course at the Royal College of Art. Congratulations to all!
‘A Presence Everlasting’ by Lewis Darby was screened at Animfest in Greece and his other second year film ‘Weathervane’ was shown at Takes in London.
‘The Moth Collector’ by Chloe Rodham will be screened in the Panorama section of the 4th Athens Animfest ‘09
Sarah Duffield Harding and Sarah Davison’s film ‘Electreecity’ was screened at Cortoons, Italy 25-29 March
Yui Hamagashira’s second year film ‘Said the fly’ has been selected to be screened at ‘Move09’ in Manchester.
Second years Chloe Rodham and Sam Lehane both got their first films ‘The Moth Collector’ and ‘Tongue and Groove’ into the Film Festival at Monstra.
British Shorts Film Festival have selected both of Yui Hamagashira’s second year films ‘Black grapes of the Chest’ and ‘Said the fly’ for their Festival in Berlin.
Sarah Duffield Harding and Sarah Davison’s film ‘Electreecity’ has been accepted into the Tampere international Short Film Festival 2009 in Finland.
‘Electreecity’ is also being screened at the Limelight Film and Arts Awards in London
January
‘Guts’ by Nagisa Kinoshita was selected for the Student competition at the 15th Internationales Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart.
‘Death by Scrabble’ the Graduation film by Katie Steed (2007) was also selected for the student competition at the 15th internationals Trickfilm-Festival Stuttgart – Festival of Animated Film, Germany
February
1999 UCA Graduate, Suzie Templeton, won the Oscar with her film ‘Peter and the Wolf’
‘Overshadowed’ by Craig Wilson has been selected for the ‘Best of the Fest 2007’ DVD by Exposures UK student Film Festival.
March
‘Black grapes of the chest’ by second year Yui Hamagashira has been selected for the graduation film competition at Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2008
‘Death by Scrabble’ the Graduation film by Katie Steed has also been selected for the graduation film competition at Annecy International Animated Film festival 2008.
The films make up two of only eleven UK entries from a global application of 456 Graduation films.
‘Black grapes of the chest’ by Yui Hamagashira (2008) has also been selected for the graduation film competition at Melbourne International Animation festival June 2008.
‘Environmental’ by Craig Wilson has been accepted into the Anifest Festival, student category 2008 in the Czech Republic.
Final year students, Daniel Chester and Nagisa Kinoshita, have also been offered a place on the prestigious MA in Animation at the Royal College of Art in London.
May
Tutor Andy Joule wins a ‘Yellow Pencil’ at the prestigious D&AD awards.
The D&AD awards were held at the Royal Festival Hall on May 15th. ‘Meat’ (the trailer for the programme ‘Kill It. Cook It. Eat It.’) produced by Red Bee Media and the agency Fallon. It was shot over three days in West London, using a mixture of stop frame animation and live action. The cast included several dead chickens, a few living ones, a pig, a sheep and a cow!
The director of the film was Daniel Levy, and Andy Joule was both the Animation director and animator.
August
Tutor Andy Joule once again paired with the directors Karni and Saul to produce four new stings for the Autumn season of ‘Casualty’. The films were shot on set in Bristol with the actors Michael French, Tristan Gemill, Georgia Taylor and Sunetra Sarker. Shot over two days, using a medium format digital still camera, Andy was the animation director and animator, pixillating the actors.
September
Graduate Francesca Adams and Jack Tilley have been offered a place on the Animation Direction course at the National Film and Television school.
‘Release’ by Kimberley Ng was screened at the Portobello Film festival 2008.
Third year student, Yui Hamagashira has collaborated with a graduate from the DFSA course at the UCA for the Collision Festival 2008 in London.
Yui’s second year film ‘Black grapes of the chest’ has also been screened in competition at;
The London international Animation festival (LIAF) 2008
The Melbourne International Animation festival 2008
Australian International Animation festival 2008
The Portable film festival in Melbourne 2008
Laputa Animation Festival in Japan 2008- Panorama programme
The KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival- Panorama programme
As well as at Annecy International Animation Festival, France.
October
‘Cheese’ the Graduation film by Adam Bailey (2007) has been selected for competition at FIKE 2008, Evora International Short Film Festival in Portugal.
November
‘Human Nature’ by Craig Wilson (Graduation film 2008) won the Festival Grand Prize and a cheque for £1000 at Canterbury Anifest.
‘Draw’ by Peter J Laugesen was runner up in the Festival Grand Prize.
‘One Nice Family Photo’ by Tom Senior (Graduation film 2008) won the Technical Achievement Award and the Audience choice award.
Four out of the seven finalists for the Festival Grand prize of £1000 at Canterbury Anifest 2008 came from the Animation course at Farnham and also included recent Graduates Aaron Wood and Katie Steed with their film ‘Best day we ever had’.
Well done to all!
March
‘Love in Black and White’ by Ralitsa Kiskinova was screened internationally at Tricky Women Film Festival, Austria and also at the 5th Annual Female Eye Film Festival, Canada
April
‘Duff Covonia’s 40 Watt Gluestick’ by Adam Bailey was screened at Red Stick Animation Festival, Louisiana.
May
‘Overshadowed’ by Craig Wilson was screened internationally at Anifest 2007 in the Czech Republic.
‘Duff Covonia’s 40 Watt Gluestick’ by Adam Bailey was screened internationally at IMAGO Animation festival.
‘Duff Covonia’s 40 Watt Gluestick’ was also screened internationally at the Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival in Korea.
‘Jar’ by Adam Bailey was screened internationally at Kalamazoo Animation Festival and the Australian International Animation Festival
June
‘Jar’ by Adam Bailey was screened internationally at Melbourne International Animation Festival
September
‘Death by Scrabble’ the Graduation film by Katie Steed was screened at the Angel Film Festival
‘Death by Scrabble’ was also screened internationally at the IV Cordoba International Animation Festival in Spain
October
Seong Jun Lee has had an exhibition of his work in the i-gallery in Harrods, London
‘Duff Covonia’s 40 Watt Gluestick’ by Adam Bailey was screened internationally at Kalamazoo Animation Festival International.
‘Cheese’ the Graduation film by Adam Bailey International Animation Film Festival of Potenza- October 2007
November
‘Guts’ by Nagisa Kinoshita was screened at Aurora 2007 in Norwich.
‘Duff Covonia’s 40 Watt Gluestick’ by Adam Bailey was screened at Aurora 2007 in Norwich.
‘Sunday Morning’ by Tom Senior was screened in competition at Canterbury Anifest 2007 . It was also screened at the Animation Block Party Summerfest in Brooklyn, New York 2007 and Anchorage Film Festival, 2007.
‘Between Love and Death’ the Graduation film by Ralitsa Kiskinova was screened in competition at Canterbury Anifest 2007.
‘Love in Black and White’ by Ralitsa Kiskinova was screened internationally at Tehran Short Film festival.
‘Death by Scrabble’ the Graduation film by Katie Steed was screened at Bradford Animation festival.
December
‘Overshadowed’ by Craig Wilson was screened at Exposures UK student Film Festival 2007, Manchester UK
‘Love in Black and White’ by Ralitsa Kiskinova was screened at Exposures UK student Film Festival 2007, Manchester.
‘Death by Scrabble’ the Graduation film by Katie Steed was screened at Exposures UK student film festival 2007, Manchester.
April
‘The Practice’ by Dilara Arin was screened internationally at Granada Young Film Makers Festival, Spain.
‘Love in Black and White’ by Ralitsa Kiskinova was screened internationally at Granada Young Film Makers Festival, Spain. It was also screened internationally at Anifest International Film Festival, Czech Republic,Screentest, UK, Tricky Women Film Festival, Austria, Animanivel Film Festival, France, The Female Eye Festival, Canada, Exposures UK Student Film Festival 2007, Manchester UK and broadcast on Propeller TV in the UK
'One man's Rubbish' by Rowan Grey was screened at the Granada International Animation Festival, Spain.
May
‘Love in Black and White’ by Ralitsa Kiskinova was screened internationally at Anifest International Film Festival, Czech Republic
June
‘Pancake Day’ a second year film by Ralitsa Kiskinova has been screened internationally at Balchik International Film Festival, Bulgaria
October
‘Quercus Alba L.’ by Kathryn Timmons was screened as part of the ‘The Masters of Sand’ exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
‘Quercus Alba L.’ by Kathryn Timmons was also screened at the Norwich International Animation Festival.
‘Jar’ by Adam Bailey was screened at the Norwich International Animation Festival.
'A Rainy Day' by Satomi Yamaguchi was screened at the Norwich International Animation Festival.
September
‘Duff Covonia's 40 Watt Gluestick’ by Adam Bailey was screened at Red Stick Animation Festival, Louisiana, Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival, Korea, IMAGO Animation Festival and Kalamazoo Animation Festival International
November
‘Jar’ by Adam Bailey was screened at Bradford Animation Festival, Kalamazoo Animation Festival International, Australian International Animation Festival and Melbourne International Animation Festival
Walkies’ by Ed Barrett was selected for the Graduation Film Competition at Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Anifest 2005 Czech Republic, Animex, Bradford Film Festival and the NAHEMI and Skillset 'Eat My Shorts' screening at the NFT in London.
‘Walkies’ was also shortlisted for Best Student film at the British Animation Awards and Royal Television Society Awards
'Phat Ride' by Kristian Andrews was screened at Animex.
Students also created the title sequence and animated inserts for the BBC4 programme ‘H.G. Well’s and me’
