At the weekend we were enormously happy to hear that Affairs of the Art won the Jury Award for the Best Comedy Short Film at the Aspen ShortsFest Film Festival in Colorado USA. Our heartfelt thanks to the Jury: Meryam … [read more]
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We are over the moon to announce that Joanna has won the 2021 Animac Honorary Award in Lleida, Catalonia. She’s profoundly grateful to receive this award in recognition of her achievements in animation. A special thank you to Carolina López … [read more]
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Hallelujah!!! We have just heard that our latest film ‘Affairs of the Art‘ has won the Best International Animation Award at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival in France. Phew!! We would like to give a huge thank … [read more]
0At last Joanna and I are extremely relieved and pleased to announce the World Premiere of our new film Affairs of the Art. A co-production between our company Beryl Productions International and the National Film Board of Canada. It will … [read more]
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After a long period of absence from our website we are very pleased to announce that our new Film Affairs of the Art – a 16 minute co production with NFB (National Film Board of Canada) will be released in … [read more]
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Joanna and I occasionally do some teaching in various colleges in the UK, Europe and the US. Mostly they’re presentations with a screening and maybe a short workshop, but now and then we do bigger project based teaching over … [read more]
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Joanna and I were invited to Animateka by Festival director Igor Prassel, who I first met on the jury at Stuttgart a couple of years ago.
Igor Prassel
We spent another exhilarating 4 days at the Bradford Animation Festival, which true to form was it’s usually extremely friendly and diverse festival, screening interesting and diverse programmes of films. We made new friends and met many old friends … [read more]
1Les and Joanna are off to Animateka 2012 in Ljubljana 3-9 December, where Joanna has a retrospective and an exhibition of artwork from the films. There are also retrospectives of animation goddesses Caroline Leaf and Michaela Pavlátová.
For more … [read more]
0It’s time for the Bradford Animation Festival again (13 -17 November). I will be running a Life Drawing session aimed at animators on Friday 16th November @ 4pm. For tickets and info click here
0I was sent a link today to a new BFI documentary called Character Animation, which I took part in late last year. It was made by Susanna Wallin and is really informative and interesting. Here is the link
http://www.bfi.org.uk/live/video/83… [read more]
0It’s time for the British Animation Awards again! This year Beryl Productions is proud to be sponsoring the event and Joanna has also done one of the BAA awards this year. Winners receive original pieces of Art created by animators … [read more]
0Les and I had a great time at BAF this year – as usual. Great films, great company and great curry!
I was invited back this year to take a life drawing class. It was a full house and everyone … [read more]
0We spent an exhilarating 4 days in Moscow as guests of the Big Cartoon Festival. Special thanks to Masha Tereschenko, Dina Goder, Natasha Reysner and of course Sergey Shikalov for his impeccable translation during Joanna’s screening. Our minder during … [read more]
0LOOK AT THE LOVELY NEW SITE!!!
We’d like to thank the patient and inspirational David Smith of Waxfrog.com and creator of the wonderful www.skwigly.co.uk (UK’s answer to AWN), for doing a fantastic job. Thanks so much David.
Up and Coming … [read more]
0Animated Exeter is taking place 18 – 26 Feb and Les and I are going to be there from Friday the 18th to Sunday 20th.
Were doing a number of things….Friday the 18th at 11.45 – 1pm we’re both be … [read more]
0I will be off to Anifest in Teplice the Czech Republic towards the end of the month. I’ve been invited onto the jury and doing a few screenings and a workshop. I will also have an exhibition there, which is … [read more]
0I will be off to Anifest in Teplice the Czech Republic towards the end of the month. I’ve been invited onto the jury and doing a few screenings and a workshop. I will also have an exhibition there, which is … [read more]
0Les and I have been invited to Italy by Chiara Magri who runs the animation department at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Torino. We are doing a workshop about scriptwriting and will be covering storyboarding, creating animatics and characterisation. … [read more]
0Animated Exeter is taking place 18 – 26 Feb and Les and I are going to be there from Friday the 18th to Sunday 20th.
Were doing a number of things….Friday the 18th at 11.45 – 1pm we’re both be … [read more]
0The Vicerectorado de Cultura, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain is hosting a major retrospective exhibition of Joanna’s films, drawings and Artwork entitled ‘Joanna Quinn: Arte Vs. Animación’, which was originally curated and exhibited at the National Media Museum in Bradford … [read more]
0Retrospective Exhibition:
‘Drawings that Move – The Art of Joanna Quinn’
National Media Museum, Bradford, England
16 October 2009 – February 28th 2010.
At long last Joanna is having a major exhibition called ‘Drawings that Move – The Art of … [read more]
0London Calling 2007
British BAFTAS
(les reporting)
Took off optimistically for London for the BAFTA Awards, staying with writer/cinematographer Roland Denning. He’s finishing his first novel which, from initial readings is really cougat- we’re all looking forward to the … [read more]
Sorry we’ve not posted here lately but here’s the latest update …in reverse order!
Just to let you know that we’ll be off to….
Brussels Film festival, Belgium (16-25 Feb)
Lleida film festival, Spain (1-4 March)
Lectures in National Film … [read more]
This is what’s been going on since our last post…in reverse order!
BRISTOL ENCOUNTERS FESTIVAL 21 – 26 November (www.encounters-festival.org.uk)
Les and Joanna did a presentation about our company Beryl Productions, in particular the storyboarding and scripting aspects, as part … [read more]
Phew!…..After a long haul and up hill struggle we finally finished our latest Beryl film ‘Dreams and Desires- Family Ties’ in late May this year (2006). It’s doing the festival cicuit right now and we’ve been incredibly lucky to have … [read more]
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