Making Tracks - May 2011

Making Tracks is a groundbreaking platform on which to showcase up-and-coming filmmaking talent. In a collaboration with The Cabinet of Living Cinema, the idea is simple: we seek out top quality short films, strip them of their original soundtracks and The Cabinet rescore them live on the night.
White Body will be rescored. read more...

07.05.2011
The Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London, SW3 4SQ
2.30-4.30pm

Sunset Strip will screen in Hands on at COLLECT 2011 read more...

The Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon, UK has included Sunset Strip, Heirloom and White Body in its Crafty Animators exhibition.

Crafty Animators
15 January – 5 March 2011 read more...

AnimateTV: experimental animation from the UK

Arnolfini Dark Studio, Bristol UK
12.00-18.00
Thursday 18 and Sunday 21 November read more...

Here’s what Animate Projects says about the compilation followed by a teaser clip:

Presenting AnimateTV: 20 Years of Experimental Animation from the UK
We are thrilled to announce the release in September of a limited edition DVD of AnimateTV films. The DVD draws together a unique selection from over 100 commissions and highlights the incredible range of experimental practice accomplished in the UK in the past 20 years.

AnimateTV – 20 Years of Experimental Animation from the UK – Teaser from Animate Projects on Vimeo.

Our 2009 production Hidden Harm has been praised in the Ofsted report on Plymouth City Council’s ‘Inspection of safeguarding and looked after children services. read more...

We were invited to contribute work to a panoramic video event at the University of Plymouth (15 - 19 February 2010). We chose to produce a digital re-master of dual-screen Super16 film Verge: Sculptural Geometry and Verge: Flux, stepped through 5 successive clock-wise projections with ambisonic(ish) audio. read more...

White Body (new shorts 3: Femmes Fantastique) and Teign Spirit (new shorts 6: Leftfield and Luscious) have screened at this year’s London Short Film Festival.
Sea Front will screen at Rich Mix Shoreditch today (new shorts 9: Trick of the Light) - here’s how they describe the programme:

Short films are shown with gorgeous and sumptuous imagery in this stunning collection of rich cinematography and beautiful animation. The programme takes in drama, documentary and experimental animation, to give a varied outlook of life from surreal dream-like landscapes to a more realistic viewpoint, but with equally stunning results

On a visit to Plymouth, Ed Milliband, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, was given a copy of Sundog Media’s production The Other CO2 Problem by local MP Linda Gillroy.
The DVD was commissioned by Plymouth Marine Laboratory and produced with students from Ridgeway School in Plympton during an intensive week at UCP Marjon earlier this year.
See the film here

The Other CO2 Problem has won the 2009 RSC Bill Bryson Prize, the science communication competition for schools.

We worked with kids from Ridgeway School in Plymouth and scientists from Plymouth Marine Laboratories during an intensive four days at UCP Marjon Media department. This was followed by weeks of animation, editing and sound dubbing by Kayla Parker and Stuart Moore at Sundog Media’s HQ, resulting in this award-winning claymation film which has attracted many accolades from scientists, politicians and audiences wordwide.

The Ecologist has a review of our recent production The Other CO2 Problem

Our latest project “Hidden Harm” has been delivered to the clients. More information soon.

One Minute Volume 3 is being screening on all the Big Screens throughout the UK this week - we’re keeping an eye on the one in Plymouth!

White Body and Verge: Nocturne can be seen in One Minute Vol. 3 touring programme on 19 September at the Marseille Project Gallery.

Two of our films White Body and Verge: Nocturne are included in the new touring programme curated by Kerry Baldry.


White Body
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http://boinx.com/istopmotion/examples/

We used Boinx’s iStopMotion in the production of The Other CO2 Problem

This month’s Devon Life magazine has an article on The Other CO2 Problem. Read it online here:

http://www.devonlife.co.uk/main-menu-helping-planet-ocean--138412

The film is online here:
http://www.vimeo.com/3800275
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvUsSMa0nQU read more...

There 2 Care has been nominated for a Media Innovation Award in the Collaboration between Business and Young People category.

Update: we’ve only gone and won an award! read more...

The Other CO₂ Problem was delivered to PML today before being whisked off to Copenhagen before returning to the UK to be presented at the Royal Institution of Great Britain by Dr. Carol Turley of Plymouth Marine Laboratories.
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The film we produced with students from Ridgeway School went on to win the EUR-OCEANS European Schools Film Contest 2008. read more...

Our Coast, Our Sea, OUR PLANET! has left for the competition in Brussels – fingers crossed! read more...

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.

Optical 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

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

The British are coming!

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

animate! at PSP Born Free V&A Museum London - Friday 27 January 2006

Friday 27 January 2006 18.30-22.00
animate! at PSP Born Free, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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Iain Sinclair on Portraiture and Place in Contemporary Animation 2 at National Portrait Gallery London - Sunset Strip was screened

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