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Skwigly.com presents Animation One-To-Ones featuring Ben Mitchell in conversation with Torill Kove, director of the National Film Board of Canada/Mikrofilm short film 'Maybe Elephants'.

Hailing from Norway and presently based in Canada, Torill has created such films as the Oscar-winning 'The Danish Poet' and the Oscar nominated 'My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts' and 'Me and My Moulton'. Her latest film 'Maybe Elephants' is rooted in family, memory and the fallible nature of both, telling the story of three sisters whose lives are uprooted when their parents relocate them from Norway to Nairobi.

The film will screen at this year's Annecy International Animation Film Festival in the Short Films in Competition - Official 2 programme.

Interview conducted by Ben Mitchell
Produced, edited and presented by Ben Mitchell

Presenting episode 112 of the Skwigly Animation Podcast!

In this episode we welcome back director Robert Morgan, whose live-action/animation hybrid horror feature film 'Stopmotion' is released on Shudder this month.

Starring Aisling Franciosi as haunted stop-motion animator Ella Blake alongside Stella Gonet and Tom York, Stopmotion is written by Robert Morgan with Robin King and recently enjoyed a festival run where it picked up the award for Best Director at Fantastic Fest and the Special Jury Award at Sitges.

Filmed in live-action combined with Robert Morgan’s signature brand of nightmarish puppet design and uncanny stop-motion animation, the film expands on a multi-award-winning legacy of (mostly) animated horror shorts that include The Man in the Lower Left Hand Corner of the Photograph, The Cat With Hands, The Separation, Invocation and Bobby Yeah, the latter picking up a BAFTA nomination for Animated Short in 2012. Morgan’s body of work also includes contributions to YouTube phenomenon Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared and the feature films The ABCs of Death 2 and To Dust, as well as the tribute films Belial’s Dream and Tomorrow I Will Be Dirt, created for Arrow’s BD releases of cult horror classics Basket Case and Schramm respectively.

Also discussed: Festival reports from Anima Brussels, Animation Dingle and Cardiff Animation Festival, an overview of some of the exciting projects coming out of the Irish animation sector, 25 years of Cartoon Saloon, the BFI's upcoming 'Stop-Motion' season curated by Justin Johnson, 'Ren & Stimpy' reboot leaks and the bizarre fate of 'Coyote Vs. Acme'.

Presented by Ben Mitchell and Steve Henderson
Interview conducted by Ben Mitchell
Edited, produced and music by Ben Mitchell

Skwigly are proud to present the third of a three-part series of exclusive podcast minisodes from the 2024 edition of the Cardiff Animation Festival.

In episode 2 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Skwigly Editor in Chief Ben Mitchell and Features Writer Dr. Laura-Beth Cowley as part of the festival's Filmmaker Brunch sessions.

Featured in this episode:
Josh Hicks - 'Spectre of the Bear'
Tova Persson - 'Offerlamm'
Hoching Kwok - 'When Cicadas Sing'
Gus Andrews - 'Whale Fall'
Qianhui Yu - 'In My Garden'

Presented by Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley
Produced and edited by Ben Mitchell
Thanks to Ellys Donovan and the CAF team

Skwigly are proud to present the second of a three-part series of exclusive podcast minisodes from the 2024 edition of the Cardiff Animation Festival.

In episode 2 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Skwigly Editor in Chief Ben Mitchell and Features Writer Dr. Laura-Beth Cowley as part of the festival's Filmmaker Brunch sessions.

Featured in this episode:
Tanya J Scott - 'The Wolf of Custer'
Gerald Conn - 'Inner Polar Bear'
Hannah Fisher - 'Disparate Threads'
Naomi Crame - 'Rainbow Junktion'
Lleucu Non - 'Painkiller'

Presented by Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley
Produced and edited by Ben Mitchell
Thanks to Ellys Donovan and the CAF team

Skwigly are proud to present the first of a three-part series of exclusive podcast minisodes from the 2024 edition of the Cardiff Animation Festival.
In episode 1 we hear from attending filmmakers in conversation with Skwigly Editor in Chief Ben Mitchell and Features Writer Dr. Laura-Beth Cowley as part of the festival's Filmmaker Brunch sessions.

Featured in this episode:
Samantha Moore - 'Visible Mending'
Greg McLeod - 'Mee and Burd'
Robert Brown - 'Clowning Around'
Katie King - 'Made For Duties Overseas'
Faye Craig - 'Sour Days'

Presented by Ben Mitchell and Laura-Beth Cowley
Produced and edited by Ben Mitchell
Thanks to Ellys Donovan and the CAF team

In our latest Skwigly Animation Podcast special we round up the winners of the 2024 edition of the biennial British Animation Awards that took place at London’s BFI Southbank in March.
This episode features an exclusive round table chat with some of the winners of the awards:

• JuanPe Arroyo of The Line, winner of Best Animation in a Commercial for Great British Bake Off’s promotional trailer 2023
• Emma Calder winner of the Cutting Edge Award, for Beware of Trains
• Camilla Deakin of Lupus Films winner of Best Feature, Writers Award and Best Original Music for Kensuke's Kingdom (dirs Neil Boyle and Kirk Hendry) and Best Long Form for Mog’s Christmas (dir. Robin Shaw)
• Iain Gardner winner of Best Long Form for A Bear Called Wojtek
• Tanya J.Scott winner of Best Postgraduate Student Film for her NFTS short The Wolf of Custer

Presented by Laura-Beth Cowley, Steve Henderson and Ben Mitchell
Produced and edited by Steve Henderson
Music by Ben Mitchell