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We were commissioned to produce a high definition short film for inclusion in the 'Definitive Stories' programme for screening in the National Review of Live Art (NRLA) at the Tramway Gallery in Glasgow.
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Street Rat chosen as a finalist in the First Light Movies Awards 2007 for its exceptional screenplay. Read about Street Rat here.

The Awards will take place on the morning of Tuesday 27 February at the Odeon West End in Leicester Square - judged by a celebrity panel including actors Kate Winslet & Minnie Driver.

Visit the 2007 Awards page on the First Light website.

Sunset Strip 35mm stripOptical Organic
An opportunity to explore the environment of Haldon Forest with award-winning filmmakers Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore and create an animated visual poem evoking a sense of place, using digital and physical image-making techniques to explore the natural world and the organic forms of the forest.

Date: Saturday 24 February
Time: 10am - 4pm
Price: £30 (£25) 01392 832277
Ages 12+ / max 10
Includes a DVD of day's work to be sent to participants.

Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World
Haldon Forest Park,
Exeter, EX6 7XR
CCANW website

Sunday Shorts - one day international film festival. Sunday 19th November, College of St Mark & St John (Marjon), Plymouth, UK
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Screening in Haldon Forest, Exeter Saturday 2 September 7.30pm at the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World.

Our films Cage of Flame and Sunset Strip will be shown as part of the Green (Un)Pleasant Land film/music event presented by Halloween and animate!

Visit the CCANW website

Perfect World nominated for award at this year’s Wildscreen Festival in Bristol in October 2006. The Wildscreen jury chose Perfect World, our music video commissioned by the Bristol Natural History Consortium, because of its “outstanding creativity”.

The Wildscreen Festival is the world’s largest and most prestigious wildlife and environmental film festival.

Visit the Wildscreen site
Read about Perfect World music video produced by Sundog Media

Plymouth Exchange (PEX06) programme of short films from South West England and Kernow screened at the Plymouth Independent Film Festival, Massachusetts, USA in July 2006.

For the 2nd year running we’ve curated a programme of new short films from the region for PIFF in the USA, and will be presenting this year’s Plymouth Exchange programmes from both sides of the Atlantic here in the UK from October.

Take a look at our Plymouth Exchange site here

Visit the Plymouth Independent Film Festival here

Cage of Flame 16mm strip

The New Flesh
part of Undercover Surrealism
Friday 21 July 9pm - 1am
Upstairs at the Hayward Gallery
South Bank Centre
London SE1 8XZ

Musical and cinematic interventions exploring sex and death, featuring the menstrual visions of our 16mm film Cage of Flame, presented by animate! and Halloween.

this performance includes material of an explicit nature

Hayward Nights tickets: £10
booking essential: 0870 169 1000
last entry 11pm

Street Rat on the BBC Bigscreen Street Rat, the drama we made with young people for the Film Council’s First Light initiative, screens on the BBC Big Screen in Plymouth city centre during Wimbledon Weeks, 2006.

Read about Street Rat here

Playing in the Light At the end of April, Sundog Media brought the ICO’s new touring programme “Playing in the Light” to Plymouth College of Art & Design. We’ve a long history of screening the best moving image work in the city and the south west through START , Plymouth’s independent moving image festival (1993 to present), and touring initiatives.
Iain Sinclair on Portraiture and Place in Contemporary Animation 2 at National Portrait Gallery London - Sunset Strip was screened
click for more infoanimate! at PSP Born Free V&A Museum London - Friday 27 January 2006
Check out our latest First Light production Street Rat
Death To Animation - animate! remix screening - Sun 7 Jan, 2pm, ICA, London
Buzzard Buzzard remix animate! films including our very own Cage of Flame and Sunset Strip

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