Animation Podcasts | Skwigly

Presenting the 78th episode of the Skwigly podcast! Special guests: •Paloma Baeza and Ser En Low, director and producer respectively of the NFTS graduation film 'Poles Apart' which this year earned the school its fifth consecutive BAFTA for Best Short Animation. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Interview conducted by Laura-Beth Cowley Produced & edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mit...

Presenting the 77th episode of the Skwigly podcast! Special guest: •Glen Keane, director of the Annie Award-winning 'Dear Basketball' (written by Kobe Bryant), which has been nominated for Best Animated Short at the 90th Academy Awards, as well as the upcoming Pearl Studio/Netflix animated feature 'Over the Moon'. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Produced & edited by Ben Mitchell Musi...

Presenting the 76th episode of the Skwigly podcast! Special guest: •Nora Twomey, director of the latest Cartoon Saloon feature film 'The Breadwinner' which has been nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Produced & edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

Presenting the 75th episode of the Skwigly podcast! Special guests: •Tom Box (producer), Simone Giampaolo and Francesco Mazza (directors) of Blue Zoo discussing their latest seasonal short film 'Lynx & Birds'. •Jeroen Jaspaert, director of this year's Magic Light holiday special 'The Highway Rat', adapted from the popular children's book by Julia Donaldson. Presented by Ben Mitchell, Steve Henders...

Presenting the 74th episode of the Skwigly podcast! Special guests: •Carlos Saldanha, director at Blue Sky Studios whose filmography includes entries in the 'Ice Age' and 'Rio' film series as well as the recent feature adaptation of the classic children's book 'Ferdinand', out in cinemas this week. •Scot Stafford, composer for Google Spotlight Stories whose directorial debut 'Sonaria' is available...

Presenting Animation Composed, a Skwigly Online Animation Magazine podcast series focusing on the harmonious relationship between music and animation. In this podcast Skwigly Managing Director Ben Mitchell and contributor Wez Allard bring you exclusive composer interviews and standout music selections showcasing music written specifically for animation projects. Season 1 episode 2 features special...

Skwigly are proud to present a series of exclusive podcast minisodes from this year's edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival. In episode 3 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Hans Walther as part of KLIK!'s Filmmakers Talkshow. Featured in this episode: Jasmine Elsen('Rascal') Ludwig Camarillo ('Chair: Animation For Art Lovers') Kiril Mirkov ('Creature Pinup') Martano...

Skwigly are proud to present a series of exclusive podcast minisodes from this year's edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival. In episode 2 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Hans Walther as part of KLIK!'s Filmmakers Talkshow. Featured in this episode: Benedikt Hummel('Good Night, Everybuds!') Alain Delannoy ('The Talk: True Stories About the Birds and the Bees') Joo...

Skwigly are proud to present a series of exclusive podcast minisodes from this year's edition of the KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival. In episode 1 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Hans Walther as part of KLIK!'s Filmmakers Talkshow. Featured in this episode: Arjan Brentjes ('Sand') Max Mörtl ('Island') Ruth Taylor & Auke de Vries ('Alaska Pollock: Read Between The Lines')...

Presenting the fifth episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 2, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we welcome Dario van Vree of Studio Pupil, whose short film "Tabook" about a...

Presenting the 73rd episode of the Skwigly podcast! Special guest: Eoin Duffy, director of the National Film Board of Canada short 'I Am Here'. Produced by Shirley Vercruysse and Maral Mohammadian of the NFB and Executive Produced by Michael Fukushima, the film will screen in competition at this year's Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival in Bristol. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Hende...

Presenting Animation Composed, a new Skwigly Online Animation Magazine podcast series focusing on the harmonious relationship between music and animation. In this podcast Skwigly Managing Director Ben Mitchell and contributor Wez Allard bring you exclusive composer interviews and standout music selections showcasing music written specifically for animation projects. Season 1 episode 1 features spe...

Presenting the fourth episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 2, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we welcome Chintis Lundgren and Draško Ivezić, director/writer and co-write...

The 72nd Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guest: Eva Cvijanović, director of the NFB/Bonobo short film "Hedgehog's Home", adapted from the classic Branko Ćopić children's storybook. Produced & Edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

Presenting the third episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 2, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we welcome Canadian comic artist/filmmaker Diane Obomsawin. Also known by he...

The 71st Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guest: Michaël Dudok de Wit, director of the Oscar winning 'Father and Daughter' and the Oscar-nominated 'The Red Turtle'. Produced & Edited by Steve Henderson Music by Ben Mitchell

In the second episode of 'Independent Animation', our companion podcast series to the Skwigly tie-in book 'Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films' (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press), we take a look at the work of "rotating collective" the Late Night Work Club, who last year followed up their 2013 anthology film 'Ghost Stories' with another themed collection of...

Presenting the 70th episode and five-year anniversary of the Skwigly Animation Podcast, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Behold a merry compilation of conversational snippets, musings, waxins philosophical, angry rants and inexplicable stories. Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson with Katie Steed and Julia Young Music by Ben Mitchell and Wez Allard Produced by...

Presenting the second episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 2, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In this episode we welcome Kim Noce of Mew Lab to the podcast, whose latest film 'Love in I...

The 69th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guest: Graham Annable, Oscar-nominated co-director of LAIKA's 'The Boxtrolls' and creator of Grickle. Produced & Edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

The 68th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guest: Robert Valley, director of the Annie Award-winning, Oscar-nominated 'Pear Cider and Cigarettes'. Produced & Edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

Presenting the first episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 2, brought to you by the online animation magazine skwigly.com Join Skwigly's Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley as they explore, discuss and interview the talents behind animation that deals with adult themes of love, relationships and sexuality. In our first episode of 2017 we give a long overdue welcome to New York-based Latvian animat...

The 67th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guest: Rune Spaans, director of 'The Absence of Eddy Table' which screens at the prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival this month. Produced & Edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

The 66th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guest: Patrick Osborne, director of the Oscar-winning 'Feast' (Disney) and 'Pearl' for Google ATAP's Spotlight Stories series, recently shortlisted for an Oscar nomination. Produced & Edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

Happy new year from the Skwigly Podcast! We're kicking off 2017 Denis Norden style with our second outtakes special. Peer behind the curtain of the Skwigly Podcast's stark professionalism to see the rambling mess of reality. Warning: Non-sequiters, blathering, stammering and adolescent ribaldry lie herein. "Presented" by Ben Mitchell, Steve Henderson and Laura-Beth Cowley.