New short animated film for Yui Hamagashira

Film Club  director Yui Hamagashira has designed and directed the short animated film 'Losing The Plot' for Childline and BAFTA Kids' Vote.

The story was the winning entry in the create and make story competition run by Childline and BAFTA Kids' Vote. Owain aged 12 won the competition with his winning story. His prize was for Film Club to turn his story into an animated film.

BABELDOM - Theatrical Release

Babeldom, the feature film made by Film Club director Paul Bush is on theatrical release. Its first screenings will be at the ICA cinema on the Mall from 8th to 14th March. There will be a special screening on 10th March at the ICA with a selection of Pauls short animated films followed by a Q&A with Paul.

For screening times and to book tickets please go to the ICA Box Office on 0207 930 3647.

As part of its theatrical release the film will also be screened at the following venues:

• Glasgow Film Theatre 3rd March plus Q& A session with Paul 
• Bristol Watershed 8-14th March
• Nottingham Broadway 8-14th March plus Q&A with Paul on 11th March
• Sheffield Showroom 8-14th March
• Birmingham Flatpack Festival 24th March plus Q&A with Paul
• Cambridge Arts Picturehouse 25th March plus Q&A with Paul

Babeldom is reviewed in the March issue of Sight and Sound, read the review below.

Em Cooper gives talk at Freud museum tonight

Film Club director Em Cooper is giving a talk tonight at the Freud Museum in Hampstead. Her films; The Nest, Confusion of Tongues and Laid Down will be screened followed by a discussion between Em and Andrea Sabbadini. Em's 3 short films explore the complex and chaotic world of inner experience from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Em's films have been screened internationally, including at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Her work has also shown at Turner Contemporary, Margate and discussed at various psychoanalytic conferences including the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival in London and the International Ferenczi Conference in Budapest. Her film Confusion of Tongues was nominated for the 2012 British Animation Awards.

Em is currently working on animated scenes within a feature documentary for the BBC...watch this space!

Film Club's Yui Hamigashira gives BAFTA Create and Make Competition Winner a masterclass

BAFTA have teamed up with NSPCC and Yui Hamigashira at Film Club to give Owain, 12, the Create and Make competition winner, a masterclass on how his winning storyboard idea, based on friendship, will be brought to life.

His winning animation is being Directed by Yui, who was personally selected by Owain. Production is underway and we’ll be sharing it with you at the end of February. Watch this space!

Click here to watch Owain's day.

Film Club launches Sharon Pinsker with Chambord sponsorship ident

Sharon's elegant work can be seen on the new Chambord sponsorship ident which was created at Film Club for the new E4 series of Revenge which airs on Monday evenings.

We are delighted to welcome Sharon to the team....watch this space.

Click here to see her Chambord ident and more of her work on the Film Club website.

Sharon studied fashion illustration at Parsons in New York after gaining a BA Hons degree in fashion Design at St Martins School of Art. Her book ‘Figure’- How to draw & paint the figure with impact – is a worldwide bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, French and Spanish.

Sharon’s animation retains the beautiful, fluid elegance of her illustration style.

Her high profile clients have included, Pepsi, Adidas and Chanel.

Jo Lawrence joins Film Club

Jo mixes stop motion, puppets, paper cutouts and After Effects to create a visual creative feast. Film Club is delighted to welcome Jo to its directors roster.

Click here to view her profile on the Film Club website. 

EM COOPER at Sundance

Em is at Sundance this week with her Sierra Leone film 30%

The Artist as Indie Film Darling? 10 Films About Creativity at Sundance 2013
by Sara Roffino writing for BLOUIN ARTINFO

Published: January 25, 2013

Art-lovers among the filmmakers and fans gathered in the snowy Utah mountains for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival have a plethora of art-related viewing options this week. ARTINFO presents the 10 selections we are most excited about at Sundance this year……..

30% (Women and Politics in Sierra Leone)

While not about art, the use of oil-painted animation combined with documentary footage to tell the stories of three women working to change gender inequities in post-conflict Sierra Leone is possibly the most creatively produced film in the festival this year. 

Paul Bush wins Special Golden Dinosaur Award at Etiuda & Anima Festival

The Special Golden Dinosaur Prize for an outstanding animation artist has been awarded to Film Club director Paul Bush.

‘Paul is a legend of British animation, an artist with an enchanting technique who creates intriguing works. Bush often reinterprets classical literary works (such as Dante’s Divine Comedy) and art (e.g. Giorgio Morandi’s plates), taking inspiration from various branches of science. His latest work, Babeldom (2011) is a result of such inspiration.

Bush is a pioneer of a technique of scratching frame by frame directly into the surface of colour filmstock over live action footage (seen e.g. in The Albatross, 1998). This technique resembles traditional wood engraving and gives the artist the opportunity to focus on the material (in this case –  film stock). Bush also uses stop motion animation techniques, which can be seen in his film Furniture Poetry.’

Pauls latest feature animation Babledom  and his latest short animation Lay Bare have been extensively screened during 2012 at  28 International festivals including, Ontario, Montreal, Ottawa, Hiroshima, Holland and Annecy. Babledom will be screened next month at the ICA

TRAM makes OSCAR shortlist

Short animated film, Tram by Film Club director Michaela Pavlatova has made it into the OSCARs shortlist. Out of 56 qualifying films Tram is one of the 10 short listed films from which 3 to 5 will make it through to be nominated in the final round.

Tram tells the tale of erotic fantasy of a lady tram driver.

Good work Michaela!

Film Club shortlisted at the 2012 British Arrows Craft Awards

Film Club Commercial Tempo - Bike has been shortlisted in the animation section of the 2012 British Arrows Craft Awards.

The winners will be announced on 26th November.

Film Club Pentax films for Blueprint Magazine

2 Film Club directors David Anderson and Tom Jobbins have just completed short films commissioned by Blueprint Magazine. The films are running at the Designjunction as part of the London Design Festival and highlighted in the November issue of Blueprint Magazine

Blueprint provided a Marc Newson designed Pentax K-01 camera and a fairly open brief, 

Tom Jobbins chose London 2012, Tom decided to celebrate how well the Brits did in the cycling events at the London 2012 Olympics in this amazingly creative interpretation of the brief .

Click here to see his film  Pedal London 2012

http://youtu.be/cw_lbKice50

David Anderson chose Hidden and illustrated a poem by poet John Agard for his intriguing and
beautiful film.

Click here to see his film Hosana of Small Mercies

http://youtu.be/2PojRTmihMo

Tempo "Bike" shortlisted at LIA 2012

Tempo - Bike by Film Club has been shortlisted at this years LIA, in the category; TV/Cinema/Online Film - Production | Post Production — Animation

Em Cooper's short film '30%' features in todays Guardian

Short film '30%' co directed by Film Club director Em Cooper about women in politics in Sierra Leone is featured in todays Guardian

Em's animation style is a powerful mix of oil paint and live action and works to communicate strong messages and view points through animation using imagery that cannot ordinarily be filmed. The film was commissioned by Screen South.

guardian.co.uk/global-development/video/2012/sep/26/sierra-leone-women-refuse-whistling-quota-video

Silver Shark for Tempo "Bike"

Film Club's animated commercial, Tempo - Bike by Film Club won a Silver Shark in the Best Animated TV category at the Kinsale Shark Awards this Saturday.

Tempo - "Bike" also won Best 2D animated commercial at the British Animation Awards earlier this year.

Click here to watch the full commercial.

Film Club shortlisted at this years Kinsale Sharks Awards

Film Club has 2 pieces of work shortlisted at this years Kinsale Sharks Awards.

Tempo - Bike is nominated in the Broadcast- Best Animation category 

and Chivas Regal - A Legend Reborn directed by Alon Ziv and Shay Hamias is nominated in the Digital  Animation category

UK premiere for BABELDOM at Encounters Festival

Babeldom, the latest feature film by Film Club director Paul Bush is set for its UK premiere in a special screening at Encounters Festival in the Arnolfini cinema at 6.00pm on Friday 21st september.

Also part of the Encounters Festival, Paul will be doing a retrospective programme of his work on thursday 20th September a 2:00pm and giving a masterclass the same day.

Paul is a member of the jury for the short animated film competition at the festival.

Click here to watch the trailer for Babeldom.

TRAM WINS MORE AWARDS

Since winning the Grand Prix, The Annecy Cristal/ Le Cristal d'Annecy and the FIPRESCI press awards at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival - Annecy, France, TRAM, a short animated film by Film Club director Michaela Pavlatova has been busy sweeping up awards on the animation festival scene 2012. It has also won;

Grand Prix - Festival du Film Court en Plein Air de Grenoble (France)

Best animated short film (1-10min),International Animation Film Festival Golden Kuker (Sofia, Bulgaria)

Best International Female Participation Award -FEMINA - International Women Film Festival (Brazil)

Selected: La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs/ Directors’ Fortnight (Cannes, France) 2012