To celebrate my exhibition in the glorious Welsh Parliament building and the Butetown Carnival, I will be running an action packed 2D animation workshop with the Cardiff Animation Festival, for both novices and experienced animators.
11am – 4pm on … [read more]
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We are so honoured to announce we have a major exhibition at the Welsh Government building – beautiful Senedd building over looking Cardiff bay.
The exhibition starts on the 22nd July and continues through the summer until September 6th.
On … [read more]
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Miles Jupp, Joanna, Eliot Cseh, Mia Rose Goddard and Les with Susie Templeton’s prize.
Always a highlight in the UK animation calender, the British Animation Awards was a wonderful event. Director Helen Brunsdon and Producer Kieran Argo and … [read more]
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We are so thrilled to be nominated in 3 categories at the prestigious British Animation Awards which will take place at BFI Southbank on the 10 March. The nominations are:
Best Voice Performance
Save Ralph – Taika Waititi, Ricky Gervais… [read more]
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Oh my goodness – what a day! This was the moment Les and Joanna heard the announcement that Affairs of the Art would competing for Best Short Animated Film in the 94th Oscars. Shocked is an understatement! What an … [read more]
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Wow – brilliant news -we’ve just heard that Affairs of the Art is nominated in the Short Animated Film category for this years BAFTA Awards.
The other nominees are
Do Not Feed the Pigeons and Night of the Living Dread… [read more]
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We are so proud to announce AFFAIRS OF THE ART is one of the 15 animated short films shortlisted by The Academy for this year’s Oscars®! Needless to say we are over the moon. Great news for the whole Beryl
More awards this week at the! Joanna won the award for Best Direction at the Los Angeles Animation Festival and Affairs of the Art received the award for Best Character Based film.
Thank you festival directors Miles Flanagan & John … [read more]
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Affairs of the Art won the Best British Film at the London International Animation Festival this week! Woo Hoo. Being a Londoner this award from LIAF means a lot to Joanna. We would like to sincerely thank Festivals Director Nag … [read more]
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Thanks Festival Director Steve Henderson and the MAF team for putting on a Hybrid Festival this year. One can only imagine it is twice as much work!
Joanna took part in the Character Animation Round Table which was a relaxed … [read more]
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Spark Animation Festival in Vancouver – what a fun festival! Thanks to Keith Blackmore for the zoom interview with Joanna and Les talking about our film and also the hilarious event with Sue Rowe, Joanna and Candy … [read more]
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Wow Affairs of the Art won 2 top awards at the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid in Spain! The first award was a Golden Spike for Best Short Film of the festival and the second was the Best European … [read more]
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The jury composed of Martin Smatana, Mauro Uzzeo and Alessandro Rak wrote the following motivation:
Art as obsession, the body as representation, dreams to dictate life goals growing up, colors to point up our own (R)existence. Each sign in this … [read more]
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Well Blinking heck what a week for awards!!!! Thank you so much to the Sante Fe Independent Film Festival and the Jury. If only there had been no Pandemic and we could have gone to Sante Fe and collected the … [read more]
0We are absolutely THRILLED to announce that Affairs of the Art won the top prize for animation at the Chicago International Film Festival.
Thank you so much to the festival and of course the Jury! Hurrah!!!
This is … [read more]
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1. We did a joint Master class called From Script to … [read more]
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In October Joanna went to Animest animation festival in Bucharest, Romania. Her first time in Romania and she had a wonderful time. The festival staff and volunteers were all incredibly friendly and hospitable.
photo : Adi TudoseOne of the … [read more]
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Affairs of the Art has won the GRAND PRIX at the ANIMASYROS International Animation Festival in Greece and we are over the moon!!
It’s the first Animation Festival that we have visited in person with our film and the first … [read more]
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We were extremely delighted to receive the Audience Award for ‘Affairs of the Art‘ at the Fantoche Animation Festival in Baden Switzerland. We were especially pleased because we’ve still never seen the film in front of a … [read more]
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A million thanks to Pavel Shvedov and all the Jury members at the 9th Insomnia Festival 2021 in Russia for awarding our film “Affairs of the Art” the Profnastil Prize for the Best Animation of the International Competition … [read more]
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Last week in the ANIMATOR Festival Poznań Poland Joanna was very honoured to have been presented with ‘The Crystal Pegasus – Lifetime Achievement Award‘ for her body of work. Previous recipients of this award have included Raoul Servais, George … [read more]
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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 At 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]
0Sorry 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]
London 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]
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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