6 new animate! tv commissions in 2005
There were 143 submissions to animate! tv’s latest commissioning round, 72 from London and 71 from rest-of-UK. Six projects have been chosen to share the annual production funding provided by Arts Council England and Channel 4 Television.
The artists in animate! tv’s new slate for 2005 are Sebastian Buerkner Fact, Joji Koyama From Nose to Mouth, Osbert Parker Head Over Heels, AL + AL Interstellar Stella, Inger Lise Hansen Proximity and Monika Forsberg & Susie Sparrow We Believe in Happy Endings.
Their projects will be completed in summer 2006 and broadcast by Channel 4 in the autumn.
The animate! advisory selection team included:
- Ben Cook Director of LUX and LUXONLINE
- Gareth Evans writer, Editor of Vertigo magazine, and independent programmer
- Ceri Hand Director of Exhibitions FACT Liverpool
- Rosie Pedlow filmmaker, and previous animate!-maker
- Gary Thomas Senior Officer Moving Image Visual Arts at Arts Council England
- Ruth Fielding Animation Consultant to Channel 4, and producer at Lupus Films
- Jacqui Davies Line Producer for animate! commissions, and independent producer
- Dick Arnall animate! Producer, and producer at Finetake