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Presenting Animation Composed, a Skwigly Online Animation Magazine podcast special focusing on the harmonious relationship between music and animation. In this podcast Skwigly Managing Director Ben Mitchell and contributor Wez Allard bring you over two hours of exclusive composer interviews and standout music selections showcasing music written specifically for animation projects. Featuring specia...

The 64th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell, Steve Henderson and Laura-Beth Cowley Special guests: •Jamie Badminton (Karrot Entertainment) - co-director of "Snowy Day" •Joanna Harrison & Robin Shaw (Lupus Films) - directors of "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" •Michael Rose (Magic Light Pictures) - co-producer of "Revolting Rhymes" Produced & Edited by Ben Mitchell...

The 63rd Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guests: Ron Clements and John Musker, directors of the latest Disney feature film 'Moana'. Produced & Edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

The 62nd Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guest: Ann Marie Fleming, multi-award winning director of films including 'I Was A Child of Holocaust Survivors' and 'The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam'. Her most recent animated NFB feature film 'Window Horses' is an exploration of the arts culture of Iran, with poetry brought to life by...

In the first episode of a brand new podcast series, Skwigly Managing Director Ben Mitchell gives an overview of the first Skwigly tie-in book 'Independent Animation: Developing, Producing and Distributing Your Animated Films'. The book is available to buy now from Taylor & Francis/CRC Press.

Presenting the final episode of 'Intimate Animation' season 1, 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 episode 6 we meet Andreas Hykade of Studio Film Bilder, director of the hallucinatory, se...

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: Nyan Kyal Say ('My Life I Don't Want') Daphna Awadish ('Journey Birds') Joanna Hepworth ('The Urban Fox') Produced,...

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: Artūrs Lācis ('Versus') Carolina Cruz ('Balbina: Das IST, die Zeit ist ein Egoist') Evelyne Dubois ('Home Sweet Home...

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: Giovanni Braggio ('Cthupid') Junaid Chundrigar ('Fixed Fairy Tales: The Princess & the Pea') Fleur Odylle ('Manfred...

Presenting episode 5 of 'Intimate Animation', 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 episode 5 we meet Réka Bucsi, director of the multi-award-winning 'Love'. The film, which comes on the hee...

Skwigly at the Dublin Animation Film Festival 2016 Podcast Special, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Steve Henderson. Special guests: Barry O'Donaghue (Barley Films), Duke Johnson (Anomalisa) Produced and edited by Steve Henderson Music by Wesley Allard and Ben Mitchell Thanks to Fionnughuala Ni Neil and Kristina Yee

The 61st Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guests: Roger Mainwood and Robin Shaw, director and art director respectively of the animated feature film adaptation of the Raymond Briggs classic 'Ethel & Ernest'. Produced & Edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell & Erik Satie ('Gnossienne No. 1', performed by Ben Mitchell)

Presenting episode 4 of 'Intimate Animation', 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 episode 3 we meet award-winning Concordia graduate Lori Malépart-Traversy, whose student short 'Le Clitori...

The 60th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Guest interviewer: Neil Whitman Special guests: •Peter Firmin, co-founder (with Oliver Postgate) of Smallfilms whose legacy of British television animation classics include 'Bagpuss', 'The Clangers', 'Noggin the Nog' and 'Ivor the Engine'. •Daniel Postgate, son of Oliver Postgate and executive pro...

Presenting episode 3 of 'Intimate Animation', 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 episode 3 we meet Veronica L. Montaño and Manuela Leuenberger, the filmmakers behind the multi-award-winni...

Presenting the final episode of Skwigly's latest batch of Podcast Minisodes from the 22nd edition of Bristol's Encounters Festival. For our fourth filmmaker Q&A session we’re speaking to attending filmmakers whose films screened as part of the animation programmes 'It's Only Natural', 'A Look Inside' and 'Art and Design'. •Sean Vicary (Dir. 'The Nose') •Samantha Moore (Dir. 'Loop') •Paul McElvie (...

Presenting the third episode of Skwigly's latest batch of Podcast Minisodes from the 22nd edition of Bristol's Encounters Festival. For our third filmmaker Q&A session we’re speaking to attending filmmakers whose films screened as part of the animation programme 'It's Only Natural'. •Lissi Muschol (Producer, 'The Wild Boar') •David Dell'Edera (Dir. 'Balcony') •Simon Scheiber (Dir. 'The Lighthouse'...

Presenting the second episode of Skwigly's latest batch of Podcast Minisodes from the 22nd edition of Bristol's Encounters Festival. For our second filmmaker Q&A session we’re speaking to attending filmmakers whose films screened as part of the animation programmes 'The Weight of Humanity' and 'Top of the Class'. •Jennifer Zheng (Dir. 'Tough') •Jodie Haslam (Dir. 'The Race') •Ben O’Conner (Dir. 'A...

Presenting the first episode of Skwigly's latest batch of Podcast Minisodes from the 22nd edition of Bristol's Encounters Festival. Featuring Q&As with attending filmmakers Zoltan Aprily, Sara Barbas, Yolanda Barker, Mike Brookes, Anete Melece, Charlie Miller and Claire Winter. Presented, produced and edited by Ben Mitchell Special thanks to Encounters and Kieran Argo

The 59th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson Special guest: Travis Knight, LAIKA CEO and Lead Animator on the studio's hit feature films 'Coraline', 'ParaNorman' and 'The Boxtrolls', discussing his directorial debut 'Kubo and the Two Strings', out in cinemas now. Produced & Edited by Ben Mitchell Music by Ben Mitchell

Presenting episode 2 of 'Intimate Animation', 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 episode 2 we meet award-winning, London-based filmmaker Anna Ginsburg, discussing "Private Parts", her rec...

The 58th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson. Special guests: the talents behind Aardman Animations, which this month celebrates its 40th anniversary. Returning to the podcast are previous guests and Aardman co-founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton, with 'Wallace and Gromit' and 'Creature Comforts' creator Nick Park making his first appeara...

Presenting the first in a new podcast series 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 themes of love, relationships and sexuality. To kick things off we dig into the Skwigly archives for our chat with the esteemed Michaela Pavlátová, director of s...

The 57th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson. Special guests: the talents behind 'The Ren & Stimpy Show', which debuted on Nickelodeon 25 years ago this month. As well as revisiting prior podcast appearances from series creator John Kricfalusi and voice talent Billy West, this episode features new interviews with: •Jim Gomez (Writer/Layout a...

The 56th Skwigly podcast, brought to you by skwigly.com Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson. Special guests: the talents behind the stop-motion sequences of Mark Osborne's feature film adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 'The Little Prince' •Anthony Scott (Lead Animator) •Corinne Merrell (Art Director) •Jamie Caliri (Creative Director) •Alexander Juhasz (Character Designer/Productio...