Animated in Ireland

Animated
in Ireland
Irish Animation Industry Directory
Co-producing with Ireland?
Financial Incentives Available
IRISH TAX INCENTIVE “SECTION 481”
Animated
in Ireland
Irish Animation Industry Directory
•Applies to animated feature films and television made in Ireland
• Currently, projects may derive a benefit of up to 28% of qualifying expenditure
•From 2015 and subject to EU approval, projects will be able to derive a benefit
of up to 32% of qualifying expenditure
•From 2015, this benefit will be based on the cost of all cast and crew (regardless
of nationality) working in Ireland, and all spend on local goods and services
For more information or to arrange an introduction to possible co-production partners, please contact:
About the Irish Animation Industry2
Irish Film Board
Tel +353 91 561 398
[email protected]
www.irishfilmboard.ie
Keg Kartoonz13
Kavaleer Productions14
A Man & Ink4
Magpie 6 Media15
Boulder Media5
Moetion Films 16
Brown Bag Films ® 6
Monster Entertainment17
Barley Films7
Paper Dreams18
Development and production funding for animated features and television series.
Caboom7
Prickly Pear Productions18
Tel +353 91 561 398
www.irishfilmboard.ie
Cartoon Saloon8
Still Films19
Dancing Girl Productions9
Studio POWWOW20
Double Z Enterprises9
Zink Films20
Geronimo Productions10
Telegael21
Giant Animation Studios11
Treehouse Republic22
Public funding for projects with an Irish broadcaster involved.
JAM Media12
Wiggleywoo23
Tel +353 1 644 1200
www.bai.ie
Ink and Light13
OTHER SOURCES OF FINANCE
Irish Film Board
Broadcasters
Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ)
TG4
Tel +353 1 208 3111 www.rte.ie
Tel +353 91 505050 Tel +353 1 419 3333
www.tg4.iewww.tv3.ie
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland
TV3/3e
Irish Directors Directory24
About the Irish Animation Industry
Ireland has always been a hub of creativity and artistic talent,
and nowhere is this clearer to see than in the Irish animation
industry. This flourishing sector now accounts for one-third
of the country’s audio-visual industry, and production activity
is increasing every year.
Irish animation studios are working with some of the
biggest names in global broadcasting—including Disney,
Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and the BBC—making
animated series that are shown to millions of children all over
the world every week. Award-winning features and shorts,
animated programming for adults, apps and games are made
here by our dynamic, technically advanced—and entirely
indigenous—2D and 3D studios.
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www.animationireland.com
In recent years Irish animation has been
nominated for every major international award,
including Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Emmys
and Annies.
Underpinning the sector’s competitiveness in a
global landscape is the Irish tax incentive for film
and television, Section 481, which was recently
improved by the government. (Read more about
S481 on the inside-front page of this booklet.)
Watch our Animated in Ireland trailer at
www.animationireland.com
or www.irishfilmboard.ie
www.irishfilmboard.ie
www.enterprise-ireland.com
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A Man & Ink
A Man & Ink have been working
hard for the past ten years producing
animation both independently and in
collaboration with other companies
across shorts, TV series and features.
For themselves, they made the shorts
Scarecrow, Miss Remarkable & Her
Career — with Lisbet Gabrielsson AB
(Sweden) and Bullitt Film (Denmark),
winner of the Fipresci Award at the
Annecy International Animation Festival
— and The Neighbours — a co-production
with ithinkasia (Cambodia) that is
currently touring festivals — and the
mini-series The Variety Show. And with
others: the series Ish’hafan (Freakish Kid,
Hungary) and Joe & Jack (Dancing Girl
Productions, Ireland); and the feature
films The Secret of Kells and Song of the
Sea (both with Cartoon Saloon, Ireland).
They are also currently working on a
short called A Stitch in Time.
Boulder Media
Jansson on the Train
Boulder Media have been making high-end 2D and 3D
animation for international markets at their Dublin studio
since 2000, producing shows like the Emmy award–
winning Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, El Tigre, and
the BAFTA, Annie and Emmy award–winning The Amazing
World of Gumball for Cartoon Network. They have already
completed season one of Disney XDs flagship show Randy
Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja and also produced the first
feature-length Lalaloopsy DVD for toy manufacturers MGA.
Other high-profile clients include Nickelodeon and ABC.
CURRENT PROJECTS
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A Stitch in Time: short film
(in production)
Jansson on the Train: feature film
(in development)
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja season two:
48 x 11 minutes (in production)
Fresh Cut Grass: a 9-minute original short film by
Boulder’s Creative Director, Robert Cullen (in production)
Ethan Darklight: an original boy’s action/comedy series
(in development)
Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
The Amazing World of Gumball
Fresh Cut Grass
The Neighbours
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A Man & Ink Jeremy Purcell, Producer
[email protected] +353 (0)91 501 046 www.amanandink.com
Boulder Media Peter Lewis, Anne Tweedy, Producers
[email protected] [email protected] +353 (0)1 677 9775 www.bouldermedia.tv
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Barley Films
Barley Films are passionate about diversity.
The company has produced nine animated
shorts since 2002 using CGI, cut-out, digital
and hand-drawn techniques. Their work has
screened at over 300 festivals in 39 countries.
The Barley Films crew has always had an
international flavour, with artists from Ireland,
Canada, the UK, France, Sweden, South Korea,
Lithuania and Italy all working at their Dublin
studio. They are also proud that four of their
films have been directed by talented women.
Peter Rabbit
Brown Bag Films®
Brown Bag Films® is one of Europe’s most successful creative-led
animation studios. Celebrating twenty years in business, their
Dublin-based headquarters have produced cutting-edge animation
for the international market since 1994, bagging numerous awards
along the way. These include Oscar® nominations for Give Up
Yer Aul Sins (2002) and Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty
(2010), three Emmy® awards for Peter Rabbit (2014), and a host
of Bafta, Emmy®, IFTA and Annie nominations for their hit shows
Octonauts, Doc McStuffins and Henry Hugglemonster.
Brown Bag Films® are committed to producing the highest
quality cross-platform animation with strong stories and engaging
characters. Founded and managed by animators Cathal Gaffney
and Darragh O’Connell, Brown Bag Films® is one of Ireland’s
business success stories, now employing over 160 full-time staff.
CURRENT PROJECTS
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Doc McStuffins: 52 x 11-minute
TV series (season 3 in production)
Peter Rabbit: 52 x 11-minute
TV series (season 2 in production)
Octonauts: 52 x 11-minute
TV series (season 4 in production)
Henry Hugglemonster:
52 x 11-minute TV series
(season 2 in production)
Bing: 78 x 7-minute TV series
(in production)
Anya: 5-minute short film
(premiered May 2014)
Ode to Love: 7-minute short film
(in production, premiering
July 2014)
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The company plans to produce a trilogy of
animated features in Ireland over the next
five years. The first of these is their principal
development project from the last few years,
Little Caribou.
Seven Santas
CURRENT PROJECTS
• Little Caribou: feature film (pre-production)
• Seven Santas: feature film (late development)
Barley Films Barry O’Donoghue, Director
[email protected] +353 (0)1 289 9224
www.barleyfilms.net
Caboom
Special 1 TV
Octonauts
Bing
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Brown Bag Films Cathal Gaffney, CEO
[email protected] +353 (0)1 872 1608 www.brownbagfilms.com
Little Caribou
Toad Rules
Caboom Damien Farrell, Creative Director
[email protected] www.caboom.ie
Caboom is a multi-disciplinary
production company based in Dublin and
LA. Working in live-action, puppetry and
animation, the company draws on more
than 20 years’ experience to produce
award-winning content for creatively
ambitious clients. Caboom’s work is
broad and varied, from animation series
for the web to live-action commercials;
animated content for apps and games
to live-action comedy series. Clients
include Disney, TBS, RTÉ, CBBC, BBC,
Fox, Warners, American Greetings,
Mattel and the Jim Henson Company.
The company is best known for its
puppet series Special 1 TV, which has
aired internationally on TV and online
and has earned the company a YouTube
partnership for its unique use of social
media to build and engage an audience.
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Dancing Girl
Productions
Dancing Girl Productions was
established by veteran animation and
live-action producers Maeve McAdam
and Villi Ragnarsson and has offices in
the Republic of Ireland and Northern
Ireland. Because of this, the company is
in a unique position to source funding.
Dancing Girl Productions is focused on
developing and producing long-running
animation series and live-action projects
for the domestic and international film
and TV markets.
Song of the Sea
Cartoon Saloon
The Academy Award® nominated animation studio
Cartoon Saloon was set up in 1999 by Tomm Moore, Paul
Young and Nora Twomey. With award-winning short films
such as From Darkness, Cúilín Dualach/Backwards Boy,
Old Fangs and The Ledge End of Phil (from accounting) to
TV series like Skunk Fu! (broadcast in over 120 territories)
and Puffin Rock (due for broadcast with Nick Jr UK in
2015), Cartoon Saloon has carved a special place in the
international animation industry.
The studio is currently in production with the animated
feature film Song of the Sea, the follow-up to The Secret
of Kells, which was nominated for an Academy Award®
in 2010. Cartoon Saloon has also created an animated
segment for The Prophet, a feature produced by Salma
Hayek, due for release in 2014.
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Joe & Jack
CURRENT PROJECTS
Joe & Jack 2: 78 x 7 minutes. The
second season of the internationally
successful animated preschool series
(late development)
Song of the Sea: animated feature
directed by Tomm Moore
(release late-2014)
The Prophet: animated feature with
“chapters” by directors from around
the world (in production)
Puffin Rock: animated cross-platform
preschool series in partnership with
Dog Ears and Penguin (in production)
Somewhere Down the Line: short film
(in production)
Moone Boy: animated sequences
(in production)
The Breadwinner: feature film,
co-production with Aircraft Pictures
(in development)
Dancing Girl Productions
Maeve McAdam, Villi Ragnarsson, Producers
[email protected]
+353 (0)86 173 8048/+44 (0)2892 290040
Double Z
Enterprises
Double Z Enterprises is a multi-award winning television
production company established in 1987. Double Z has provided
both UK and Irish television with much-loved comedy shows
and puppet characters for adult and children’s programming,
including Zig & Zag, Dustin the Turkey and Podge & Rodge.
Double Z Enterprises has produced original comedy-based
programming for all the major broadcasters in Britain and
Ireland, including RTÉ, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and MTV. Along
with television production, Double Z have extensive experience
in licensing. For over twenty years the company has produced
merchandising and marketing campaigns for their characters
in Ireland, the UK and Europe.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Zig & Zag – The Animated Series
The Secret of Kells
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Puffin Rock
The Ledge End of Phil
(from accounting)
Cartoon Saloon Paul Young, Producer
[email protected] +353 (0)56 776 4481/+353 (0)56 776 4455 www.cartoonsaloon.ie
Double Z Enterprises
Ronan McCabe, Producer
[email protected] +353 (0)1 497 9737
www.dze.ie
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Zig & Zag – The Animated Series: 26 x 11-minute
animation for CBBC/RTÉ (in development)
Historical rom-com screenplay (in development)
Family quiz show (in development)
Puppet-based online internet TV channel (in development)
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Giant
Animation
Studios
Giant Animation Studios is an
innovative Dublin-based company
that is dedicated to the development
and production of premium
animated content for all platforms.
The studio’s focus is on creating its
own properties for the entertainment
industry, as well as providing
animation and design solutions
for some of the leading production
houses and agencies in Europe.
Nelly & Nora
Geronimo Productions
Geronimo Productions was awarded Producer of the Year at Cartoon
Forum 2011. The studio offers a full range of animation services from
development and across full production. In co-production scenarios,
they can raise finance and invest 50 per cent of the budget, depending
on work split. Geronimo can also provide animation services and
contribute to an overall budget by raising finance in Ireland.
The following are recently completed projects: Roobarb & Custard Too
(39 x 7 minutes), Fluffy Gardens (80 x 7 minutes), Fluffy Gardens Xmas
Special (1 x 20 minutes), Ballybraddan (20 x 13 minutes), Punky
(40 x 7 minutes) and Planet Cosmo (15 x 13 minutes).
CURRENT PROJECTS
• Nelly & Nora: animated
TV series, 52 x 7 minutes.
A charming, clever girl
and her high-spirited
sister holiday by the sea,
where they have all weather fun, adventures
and a lifetime of
memories
(in production)
Bobby Dazzler
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Creepers
Punky
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Geronimo Productions Limited Gerard O’Rourke, Producer
[email protected] +353 (0)1 603 4980 www.geronimo.ie
The company has been nominated
for an Irish Film and Television
Award, selected for competition
in Annecy 2012 and has also won
two consecutive Digital Media
Awards for Best Animation, in
2012 and 2013.
Giant Animation Studios Daniel Spencer, MD
[email protected] +353 (0)1 901 3266 www.giant.ie
Bobby Dazzler: preschool action
show (in development)
Creepers: supernatural mystery
TV show (in development)
TED ED: series of short
educational films (in production)
The Duel
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Ink and Light
The Red Herring
Roy
JAM Media
Since JAM Media’s inception in 2002, founders
John Rice, Alan Shannon and Mark Cumberton
have developed and created a number of awardwinning TV series. They continually strive for
immersive stories, engaging characters and
quality animations in all of their productions.
The company opened a new office in Belfast in
April 2013.
Their CBBC series Roy won the BAFTA for Best
Children’s Drama in 2012, adding to its BAFTA
nominations for Best Drama and Best Writer
in 2010. Roy has also won a Royal Television
Society Award and the Trickfilm Festival
(Stuttgart) award for best animated TV series
for kids. JAM Media won Producer of the Year
at the Cartoon Forum in Toulouse in 2012, and
in April 2014, their series Tilly and Friends
picked up an IFTA for best animation.
CURRENT PROJECTS
• Papa’s Boy: 26 x 7-minute series
(in development)
• The Red Herring: short film (in production)
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Ink and Light develops and produces original
television series and feature films. Established
in 2011 by Tamsin Lyons and Leevi Lemmetty,
the company has bases in Dublin and Helsinki.
They work predominantly with CG animation
but love exploring whatever form fits to tell a
great story. Ink and Light’s previous work has
been screened by RTÉ, MTV, Channel 4 and
YLE, and at festivals such as Annecy, Sundance
and Toronto. Alongside developing their
own material, they are also interested in
co-producing feature films and animation series
for domestic and international distribution.
Roy: live-action/animation hybrid, CBBC
(52 x 28 minutes, in production)
Tilly and Friends: preschool, CBeebies
(52 x 11 minutes, in production)
Baby Jake: preschool, CBeebies (52 x 11
minutes, in production)
Funky Fables: animation/audience participation,
CBBC (26 x 11 minutes, in production)
Picme: preschool (104 x 5 minutes, in production)
Little Roy: preschool (52 x 11 minutes,
in development)
Early Bird: preschool (52 x 11 minutes,
in development)
Pigsticks and Harold: animation (52 x 11
minutes, in development)
Jessy and Nessy: preschool
(52 x 11 minutes, in development)
Ivor’s Island: preschool (52 x 11 minutes,
in development)
Papa’s Boy
Ink and Light Tamsin Lyons, Producer
[email protected]
+353 (0)1 668 9551/+353 (0)86 732 1331
www.ink-and-light.com
Keg Kartoonz
Keg Kartoonz is a Dublin-based animation
studio run by Michael Algar (producer)
and Noel Kelly (creative director). Both
Michael and Noel have worked in the
animation business since the time when
studios used pencils and paper. Over their
careers they’ve each worked for many
different studios around the world, but
nowadays they concentrate on developing
and producing Keg’s own projects. The
most recent project to be completed at Keg
Kartoonz is a 90-minute animation/liveaction special of comedian Brendan Grace’s
character, Bottler.
Bottler
CURRENT PROJECTS
Early Bird
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Pigsticks and Harold
JAM Media John Rice, CEO
[email protected] +353 (0)1 405 3484 www.jammedia.com
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Pencil Pilots: 26 x 12 minutes
(in development)
Pencil Pilots: gaming app for iPhone,
iPad and Android (available summer 2014)
Keg Kartoonz Michael Algar, Producer Noel Kelly, Creative Director
[email protected] [email protected] +353 (0)1 284 3426 www.kegkartoonz.com
Pencil Pilots
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Boj
Kavaleer
Productions
Kavaleer Productions is one of Ireland’s foremost animation
studios, with a body of work including TV series, commercials,
app development and games. Throughout its thirteen-year
history, Kavaleer has not only conceived and produced a
number of highly acclaimed shorts but has also co-produced the
internationally syndicated series Garth & Bev (26 x 11 minutes),
Abadas (52 x 11 minutes) and Lifeboat Luke (52 x 5 minutes).
Kavaleer are currently in production on Boj, a 52 x 11-minute
preschool series from the UK-based Pesky Productions in
association with Welsh-based Bait Studio. They also completed
production on their latest creation, the 26 x 7-minute preschool
series Wildernuts, in December 2013 and will begin production
on another 26 episodes in spring 2014.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Magpie 6
Media
• Boj: 52 x 11 minutes,
preschool (in production)
• Wildernuts: 52 x 7 minutes,
preschool (in production)
• The Draculs: 52 x 11 minutes,
6–11 year olds
(late development)
• Tipto: 52 x 11 minutes,
6–11 year olds (late development)
• Kira Khan Do!: 52 x 11 minutes,
preschool (development)
• Ruby and the Trolls:
52 x 11 minutes, preschool
(development)
• Dougie Noir: 52 x 11 minutes,
6–9 year olds (development)
Magpie 6 Media is a Dublin-based studio
set up in 2008 by husband-and-wife team
Clifford Parrott and Christina O’Shea.
Both worked in animation in Los Angeles
for many years before coming to Ireland.
Cliff is an award-winning animator, having
produced animation for notable clients
such as Adam Sandler. Magpie 6 Media has
worked on animation projects for Disney
and ESPN, among others, and creates its
own in-house animated and live-action
properties. In 2013 the studio’s international
co-production, The Travels of the Young
Marco Polo (26 x 25 minutes), was broadcast
in Ireland, Germany and Canada. The studio
is currently wrapping production on the
animated preschool series Inis Spraoi (26 x
11 minutes), for broadcast on RTÉ this year.
The Draculs
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Wildernuts
Kavaleer Productions Andrew Kavanagh, CEO Gary Timpson, MD
[email protected] [email protected] +353 (0)1 661 8585 www.kavaleer.com
Inis Spraoi
The Travels of the Young Marco Polo
CURRENT PROJECTS
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Inis Spraoi: 26 x 11-minute animated
TV series (late production)
Lily & Dandy: 52 x 11-minute animated
Early Bird
TV series (early development)
Magpie 6 Media Clifford Parrott, Christina O’Shea, Producers
[email protected] +353 (0)1 443 3532 www.magpie6media.com
Lily & Dandy
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Monster
Entertainment
Monster Entertainment is a brand
management company with activities
encompassing distribution, finance and
production of TV programmes. In business
for over fifteen years, Monster has a wide and
varied catalogue, sourcing award-winning
programming from all over the world and
selling into more than 200 countries. Its
catalogue includes animation series from
preschool up to teens and adults including
Oscar-winning, Oscar-nominated and Emmywinning animation programming.
Moetion Films
Moetion Films is a newly formed production
company producing and developing
animated feature films and TV series for
international distribution. Working with a
highly creative network of writers, animators,
actors and directors, the team is a long-time
co-producer with companies such as AFilm
Productions, Anima Vitae and Ulysses
Filmproduktion.
The Dinkers
Ooops! Noah is Gone…
The company now has an in-house animation
studio and is currently co-producing the
animated series Inis Spraoi/Rockabye Island.
It has also completed a four-country
co-production of The Travels of the Young
Marco Polo with Magpie 6 Media, having
recently produced preschool series I’m a
Monster and I’m a Creepy Crawly.
CURRENT PROJECTS
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Producer and owner Moe Honan recently
co-produced the animated feature films
Legends of Valhalla – Thor, Niko 2 – Little
Brother Big Trouble and previously Niko
and the Way to the Stars. Other TV credits
include: The Ugly Duckling and Me, Lilly the
Witch, The Fairytaler, The World of Tosh and
Norman Normal.
Fuzzyworld: 52 x 5-minute animated series
(in development)
I’m a Fish: 52 x 2-minute animated series
(in development)
Ellabie & Friends: 52 x 11-minute animated
series (late development)
Danny’s Smelly World: 52 x 11-minute
animated series (development)
The Dinkers: 52 x 11-minute animated series
(late development)
Wulfie: 52 x 11-minute animated series
(late development)
CURRENT PROJECTS
• Ooops! Noah is Gone…: 3D animated
feature (in production). A comedy adventure
about the creatures who missed the boat.
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Moetion Films Moe Honan, Owner and Producer
[email protected] +353 (0)91 374 031 www.moetionfilms.com
I’m a Fish
Monster Entertainment Deirdre Barry, Producer
[email protected] +353 (0)1 611 4934 www.monsterentertainment.tv
Wulfie
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Paper Dreams
Paper Dreams is an award-winning Irish production
company run by Michael Lennon and Heidi Karin
Madsen that develops and produces feature films
and animated television series. Paper Dreams’s most
recent production was Earthbound, a sci-fi rom-com
feature film written and directed by Alan Brennan.
Currently Paper Dreams is producing an animated
Christmas special called The Overcoat, based on the
short story by Nikolai Gogol and adapted by Hugh
O’Conor. The Overcoat will be a co-production with
Slugger Film (Sweden) and A Film (Estonia). Paper
Dreams is also developing a number of children’s
animated television series for both the international
and domestic markets, and is actively seeking coproduction opportunities.
The Overcoat
The Chicklings
Still Films
Founded in 2007 by Maya Derrington,
Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley, Still Films
is a production company based in Dublin
and New York that makes feature films,
animations, documentaries, TV, trans-media
productions and artist films. Still Films
has a collective ethos; the team produce
and edit one another’s work as well as
supporting a wide group of associated
filmmakers. Still Films was given the
Michael Dwyer Discovery Award for new
talent by the Dublin Film Critics Circle.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Paper Dreams
Michael Lennon, Heidi Karin Madsen, Producers
[email protected] [email protected]
www.paperdreams.ie
• The Overcoat: animated feature (in production)
• The Sandwolf: animated feature (co-production)
• The H-Files: animated TV series (in development)
• The Chicklings: animated TV series (in development)
Last Hijack
Prickly Pear
Productions
Still Films projects featuring animation
include the experimental film The Rooms;
feature documentary Build Something
Modern; hybrid feature documentary Last
Hijack; and short films Learning to Fish,
Trolley Boy and We, The Masses.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Prickly Pear Productions is an awardwinning Irish animation studio, with a
collective of creatives who provide highend animation services including animated
commercials, e-learning platforms and web
advertising. Prickly Pear Productions was
founded by Richard Kelly in 2006. In 2008,
they established a creative division that
specialises in the production of short films,
with the aim to work towards producing
their first animated feature film.
The Worry Word
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The Worry Word: animated short
(in production)
Where is Eva Hipsey: animated short
(in production)
The Participants: feature film
(in production)
CURRENT PROJECTS
• Paperboy: animated 3D feature film
franchise (late development)
• Short films in various stages of development
Paperboy
Learning to Fish
Pencil Pilots
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Prickly Pear Productions Richard Kelly, Creative Director
[email protected] +353 (0)85 702 9189
www.pricklypearproductions.ie/www.paperboythemovie.com
Still Films Nicky Gogan, Producer
[email protected] +353 (0)86 025 1117 www.stillfilms.org
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Telegael
Telegael is one of Europe’s leading
animation and television production houses.
Established in 1988, the multi Emmy and
IFTA award-winning studio works with
international producers, distributors and
broadcasters to develop, co-produce and
finance animation and live-action content
for the global market. Telegael’s client list
includes some of the biggest names in global
broadcasting including Disney, Cartoon
Network, France Television, Super-RTL,
KIKA, BBC, Nickelodeon, PBS Sprout, ITV,
ZDF and Discovery Kids. Telegael has coproduced more than 700 hours of television.
Its productions have been distributed to over
140 territories throughout the world and
translated into more than 40 languages.
Studio POWWOW
The World of ShipAntics
Studio POWWOW creates and delivers entertainment
brands with engaging stories and characters that are knitted
seamlessly back together on multiple media platforms, by
bringing their skill, knowledge and vast experience of awardwinning TV-quality animation, design and storytelling to
interactive content and games.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Studio POWWOW
Richard Glynn, CEO
[email protected]
+353 (0)86 3641 424
www.studiopowwow.com
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The World of ShipAntics: transmedia comedy adventure,
ages 6–12 (in development)
Puzzle adventure game (on iOS/Android summer 2014)
In development: web and TV series, connected toys
Zink Films
Zink Films are one of the top suppliers of quality
animation and CGI content in the country, having
created ads for companies such as Flahavan’s, Yoplait
and Gateaux and collaborated on CG/live-action mix
commercials for such clients as Tayto and Berocca. Zink
also specialize in animation for the web and have created
online content for major brands like Coca-Cola, Guinness,
Carlsberg and Vodafone. They are the top supplier of
pre-viz and concept art, with in-depth knowledge of CGI,
animation, character design/creation and the web.
Igam Ogam
CURRENT PROJECTS
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Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch:
26 x 24-minute animated TV series
Igam Ogam, season two: 52 x 10-minute
stop-motion pre-school TV series
The Skinner Boys: 26 x 24-minute
animated TV series
Bubble Bath Bay: 52 x 11-minute
animated TV series
Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs:
52 x 11-minute animated TV series
Wild Grinders, season two: 52 x 11-minute
animated TV series
Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch
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Love is a Sting: 8-minute short, live-action/CGI mix
Bot Com: 6-minute CGI short
Luka Pooka: 52 x 11-minute TV series, 3–6 year olds
(in development)
Bob’s Jobs: 52 x 5-minute TV series, preschool
(in development)
Joey O’Toole & Finn McCool: 52 x 11-minute
TV series, boys action comedy (in development)
Katie Baloney Saves the World: 26 x 26-minute
TV series, action adventure (in development)
Joey O’Toole & Finn McCool
Zink Films Gary O’Neill, Producer
[email protected] +353 (0)87 970 6760
www.zinkfilms.com
Early Bird
Telegael Paul Cummins, CEO
[email protected] +353 (0)91 558 600 www.telegael.com
The Woodlies
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Wiggleywoo
Dragon Fist
Treehouse Republic
Boys of all ages love adventures that lead to laughter and skinned
knees! Treehouse Republic creates dangerously funny worlds where
comedy smashes into action, leaving in its path of destruction
exciting and outrageously awesome content. Treating platforms like
windows into worlds, the company produces and develops content
for linear and non-linear exploration of universes. Its tight-knit
family of creatives work together to deliver the highest quality
content possible for their most important clients: their audience.
The Simple Life of Dave
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CURRENT PROJECTS
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Epic Eric: 52 x 11-minute
TV series (financing)
Dragon Fist: 52 x 11-minute
TV series (early development)
ChainSaw: 6 x 5-minute web
series (late development)
The Simple Life of Dave:
26 x 11-minute TV series
(early development)
Epic Eric
Treehouse Republic Dale Robinson, Producer
[email protected] +353 (0)1 662 9688/+353 (0)1 639 4698 www.treehouserepublic.com
Tea with the Dead
Wiggleywoo is a Dublin-based animation company
set up in 2012 by Gilly (Creative Director), Susan
Broe (Producer) and Alan Foley (CEO). Wiggleywoo’s
objective is to build a portfolio of highly commercial
animated projects that have the potential to work crossplatform and to generate licensing, merchandising
and other ancillary income. They have a number of
animated projects in development, including preschool
projects, a feature film, an animated documentary
drama series and numerous apps, and they have
just completed production on an adult animated
documentary drama series, Tea with the Dead.
CURRENT PROJECTS
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Tea with the Dead: animated documentary drama
series (completed)
MYA GO: preschool series presented at Cartoon
Forum 2012 (in development)
The Day Henry Met?: preschool series presented at
Cartoon Forum 2013 (in production September 2014)
You, Me, the Sky and the Sea: animated feature film
presented at Cartoon Movie 2014 (in development)
You, Me, the Sky and the Sea
Wiggleywoo Susan Broe, Producer [email protected] +353 (0)86 811 8847 www.wiggleywoo.com
The Day Henry Met?
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Irish Directors Directory
Dedication
Jimmy T. Murakami
1933–2014
Jimmy T. Murakami, the celebrated animation
filmmaker who passed away in February of this
year, was resident in Ireland since 1970. In that
time he established several companies, most
notably Murakami Wolf Dublin, which at its peak
employed over one hundred artists. In addition to his
international career, he directed The Story Keepers
animation series and numerous shorts here, including
Sandpiper and Sparky the Space Dog with the Irish
Film Board. He also lectured, tutored and mentored
many in the industry, and was a friend to all. He is
sadly missed and fondly remembered.
The picture above is from the documentary Jimmy Murakami:
Non-Alien by Sé Merry Doyle. For more information, see
loopline.com/murakami.
Teemu Auersalo / Louise Bagnall / Paul Bolger
Rory Bresnihan / Matthew Darragh / Tony
Donoghue / Eoin Duffy / Lorcan Finnegan / Gilly
Ben Harper / Andrew Kavanagh / Eoin Kidney
Leevi Lemmetty / Cat Little / John McCloskey
Alastair McIlwain / Adrien Merigeau / Tomm
Moore / Darragh O’Connell / Damien O’Connor
Bronagh O’Hanlon / Chris O’Hara / David
O’Reilly / Kealan O’Rourke / Nicky Phelan
Jeremy Purcell / David Quin / Ruairí Robinson
Paul Ruttledge / Patrick Semple / Alan
Shannon / Joel Simon / James Stacey / Jason
Tammemägi / Nora Twomey / Steve Woods
Teemu Auersalo
Tony Donoghue
Teemu is a director, animator and screenwriter. His own
works include short films Trolley Boy and Learning to
Fish. Currently Teemu is developing the feature film
Jansson on the Train and lecturing in IADT.
Tony Donoghue’s short film Irish Folk Furniture won Best
Animation at Sundance 2013 and has screened at festivals
worldwide. His previous short, A Film from My Parish – 6 Farms,
also screened at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals
including Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand and Telluride.
[email protected]
www.teemuauersalo.com
[email protected]
+353 (0)87 326 9819
Louise Bagnall
Louise is a director/animator who has created a number of short
films. Her most recent film, Loose Ends, was released as part of
the Late Night Work Club group. She is currently developing an
original television series as well as a new short film.
[email protected] +353 (0)86 309 9858
www.elbooga.tumblr.com
Paul Bolger
Paul directed the Frameworks short Gardens, Happily N’Ever
After and Hamster Heaven, among others. He is developing
Brown Bag’s Wooden Sword, the 2D feature Fox on the Run
and the live-action feature adaptation of Cú Chulainn, Hound.
[email protected]
+353 (0)51 896 874/+353 (0)87 971 6689
www.pillarstoneproductions.com
Eoin Duffy
Eoin Duffy is an award-winning Irish director now living and
working in Vancouver. Eoin has created a body of independent
work that has gone on to secure two Oscar-accredited festival wins,
a nomination for the European Film Awards and a shortlisting for
the 86th Academy Awards, among other accolades.
[email protected] +1 604 728 2441
www.eoinduffy.me
Lorcan Finnegan
Lorcan set up Lovely Productions in 2004. Since then he
has written and directed several award-winning shorts,
music promos and commercials. His film Foxes won an
Irish Film and Television Award for Best Short.
[email protected] +353 (0)86 125 9794
www.lovelyproductions.com
Rory Bresnihan
Gilly
[email protected] +353 (0)86 609 4117
www.rorybresnihan.com
[email protected] +353 (0)86 811 8847
www.wiggleywoo.com
Rory wrote and directed the award-winning shorts Guy’s Dog,
Ape, The Butterfly Collector and God’s Early Work. His latest
film, The Man Inside, has won numerous awards. Current
projects include Slam, Pancake Tuesday and Yeah Bonobo.
Matthew Darragh
New Zealand–born filmmaker Matthew Darragh wrote and
directed the IFTA-nominated Pilgrim and The Monk and the
Fly. His new short film, An Ode to Love, will be released later
this year. He is currently working as Episodic Director for
Brown Bag Films® on Disney’s Henry Hugglemonster.
[email protected] +353 (0)86 1034651
vimeo.com/matthewdarragh
Gilly graduated from IADT Dun Laoghaire in 2004. After
working in post production for five years, Gilly left to start
Wiggleywoo with Susan Broe and Alan Foley. He creates,
designs and directs Wiggleywoo’s original content.
Ben Harper
Ben Harper is an award winning animation director
working for his own company, Giant Animation. Ben is
always interested in working on innovative projects and
developing content across multiple platforms.
[email protected] +353 (0)87 604 5441
www.giant.ie
Andrew Kavanagh
Alastair McIlwain
Andrew Kavanagh has directed several award-winning
films that have been officially selected at over 100 festivals
worldwide. The Depository and From an Evil Cradling screened
at Annecy 2012. He also directed the Kavaleer Productions
26 x 7 series Wildernuts, which will screen at Annecy 2014.
Alastair is a widely experienced designer, animator and
director on commercials, features and television series. He
works freelance on project development, character designs,
storyboards, layout, traditional animation and backgrounds.
[email protected] +353 (0)1 661 8585
www.kavaleer.com
[email protected] +44 (0)28 9188 3786/+44 (0)7801 233 244
www.ali-mcilwain.com
Eoghan Kidney
Tomm Moore
[email protected]
(UK) +44 (0)784 8120 526/(IRE) +353 (0)86 169 2313
eoghankidney.tumblr.com
[email protected] +353 (0)56 776 4481
www.cartoonsaloon.ie
Eoghan’s work ranges from pop videos to experimental
short films. He has made work for Underworld, Madonna and
Caribou, amongst others. He is represented as a director by
Nice & Polite in London.
Leevi Lemmetty
Tomm co-founded Cartoon Saloon in 1999. Having
completed his first feature film, The Secret of Kells, which
was nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Animated
Feature, he is currently in the final stages of production of
his second feature film, Song of the Sea.
Adrien Merigeau
Leevi’s films have screened worldwide at festivals including
Annecy, Sitges and Toronto. His work has been broadcast on RTÉ,
YLE and MTV and distributed by Nordisk Film and Nintendo
Video among others.
Adrien is a French filmmaker working in Ireland. He worked on
The Secret of Kells, then directed Old Fangs and Cecelia and
Her Selfhood. He currently is working as Art Director on Tomm
Moore’s upcoming animated feature, Song of the Sea.
[email protected] +353 (0)86 213 3624
www.ink-and-light.com
[email protected] +353 (0) 56 776 4481
www.adrienmerigeau.com
Cat Little
Cat Little has written and directed two Irish Film Boardfunded shorts, The Parish Letter and Dreamzz. In terms
of TV work, she was creator and director of Wobbly Land,
animation director on Noddy in Toyland, and assistant
director on Tilly and Friends.
[email protected] +353 (0)86 882 5252
www.catlittle.com
John McCloskey
John is responsible for the words, drawings and music for The
Crumblegiant and Guns, Bees and Tadpoles. He is also the
maker of all the drawings for Midnight Dance.
[email protected] +44 (0)287 126 0562
www.nerve-centre.org.uk
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Darragh O’Connell
Darragh has directed numerous animated series including
Olivia and Octonauts. He co-founded and is creative director of
two-time Academy Award® nominated Brown Bag Films®, one
of Europe’s leading animation studios.
[email protected] +353 (0)1 872 1608
www.brownbagfilms.com
Damien O’Connor
Damien O’Connor has written and directed four
Frameworks-funded films: Mutt, Ledog and the IFTAnominated Dick Terrapin and After You. He is a professional
editor (Noddy, Olivia the Pig, Octonauts), storyboard artist
and episodic director (Doc McStuffins).
[email protected]
+353 (0)86 855 8783
Bronagh O’Hanlon
Jeremy Purcell
Bronagh has directed numerous commercials and created and
directed the series Teenology for RTÉ. She is currently Art and
Episodic Director on Disney’s Doc McStuffins.
Jeremy is currently working with Cartoon Saloon again as
assistant director on their 39 x 7 minute TV series Puffin Rock, as
well as working on the short film A Stitch in Time for A Man & Ink.
[email protected] +353 (0)86 848 5149
www.brownbagfilms.com
[email protected]
www.amanandink.com
Kealan O’Rourke
Award-winning live-action and animation director. Kealan’s
short film The Boy in the Bubble won an IFTA for Best
Animation. Kealan is currently writing and directing the
feature animation Bolivar for Warner Bros; writing Emily the
Strange, which will star Chloe Moretz, for Universal Pictures;
and has written The Houdini Box for 20th Century Fox.
[email protected] +353 (0)87 624 1580
www.kealanorourke.com/www.theboyinthebubble.net
Chris O’Hara
Chris O’Hara is an award-winning animator and director
based in LA. He has produced numerous short films including
his first self-funded short film A Different Perspective (2012),
which has been screened at over 70 festivals worldwide.
[email protected] +353 (0)86 199 3109
chrisoharaportfolio.blogspot.com
David O’Reilly
David O’Reilly is an Irish animator based in Los Angeles.
He has created a wide variety of independent short
films and commercial projects. Noted for his disregard
of conventions, his work is viewed as a groundbreaking
force in contemporary 3D animation.
[email protected]
David Quin
David Quin has worked since 1984 as an animator and director,
producing stop-motion and CGI animated series, short films
and commercials. He has received two Frameworks awards and
produces the internet series Cutbacks.
[email protected] +353 (0)52 915 4309
www.cutbacks.ie/www.davidquin.ie
Paul Ruttledge
Paul co-directed (with Jack O’Shea) the short film Eat the
Danger, which was selected for Annecy 2013. Since then, he has
directed three hand-drawn animated music videos, including one
for BP Fallon and the Bandits.
[email protected]
Ruairí Robinson
Ruairí Robinson is the Academy Award-nominated director of Fifty
Percent Grey, Blinky™ and Imaginary Forces. His debut feature
film, The Last Days on Mars, premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film
Festival. Ruairí worked for many years in professional 3d animation
and post-production before moving into directing commercials,
music videos and films. He is based in Ireland and LA.
[email protected]
www.ruairirobinson.com
Nicky Phelan
Nicky Phelan joined Brown Bag Films® in 2005. In 2008,
Nicky directed the short film Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping
Beauty, which went on to collect twenty international awards,
and the second and third seasons of the BAFTA-nominated
series Octonauts. Nicky is currently directing the TV series
Bing, set to premiere on CBeebies this summer.
[email protected] +353 (0)1 872 1608
www.brownbagfilms.com
Patrick Semple
Patrick has directed two films, Headspace (Barley Films) and
FlatLand (Ncca).
[email protected] +353 (0)85 818 4198
patricksemple.blogspot.com
Joel Simon
Joel Simon established Flickerpix Animation Studios in 2003 and
directed animations for Channel 4, BBDO, Sesame Workshop US,
CBBC and others. He directed Macropolis and Horn OK Please,
which has won 15 international awards.
[email protected] +44 (0)2890 397 347
www.flickerpix.com
Alan Shannon
Alan is currently directing series three and four of Roy, a 26 x
28-minute live action/animation hybrid show for CBBC. Prior to
this, he directed a 52 x 11-minute animation series entitled Tilly &
Friends for CBeebies.
www.irishfilmboard.ie
Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board is the
national development agency for the Irish film industry,
investing in talent, creativity and enterprise. The agency
supports and promotes the Irish animation industry
and provides development and production funding for
animated features and television series.
[email protected] +353 (0)1 405 3484
www.jammedia.ie
James Stacey
Director of IFTA-nominated short Origin, James is CG Supervisor at
Brown Bag Films®. He is currently working on Octonauts for BBC
and Henry Hugglemonster and Doc McStuffins for Disney.
www.enterprise-ireland.com
[email protected] +353 (0)1 872 1608
www.brownbagfilms.com
Enterprise Ireland is the government agency
supporting Irish companies by providing expertise,
strategic advice, financial support and access to
international markets and funding. With a worldwide
office network, Enterprise Ireland invests in the
development of world-class Irish companies to achieve
strong positions in global markets.
Jason Tammemägi
Jason is a specialist in preschool content, both on a creative level
and in production/management. Forming, leading and guiding
projects; consulting, writing, designing and producing. He is the
creator, writer and director of Fluffy Gardens and Planet Cosmo.
[email protected] +353 (0)86 807 8063
www.jasontammemagi.com/www.mooshku.com
Nora Twomey
www.animationireland.com
Animation Ireland is an umbrella brand under which
the leading animation companies in Ireland work
together to market Ireland’s world-class animation
sector internationally. The brand is supported by
Enterprise Ireland and is owned by the Irish Animation
CEO Forum.
Nora is a director of Cartoon Saloon, which she co-founded in
1999. She is currently developing her feature film directorial
debut, an adaptation of the bestselling novel The Breadwinner.
She co-directed The Secret of Kells with Tomm Moore, and the
award-winning shorts From Darkness and Cúilín Dualach.
[email protected] +353 (0)56 776 4481
www.nora-twomey.com
Steve Woods
Steve Woods teaches experimental animation in the National
Film School IADT. In 2011, he produced and directed Dutch
Darkness, a five-minute pixelated film. Steve curated the Irish
Focus in Annecy 2012.
[email protected] +353(0)86 364 4174
www.stevewoods.ie
For more information on Irish animation directors,
please visit the website of the Screen Directors
Guild of Ireland, www.sdgi.ie
Watch the latest Animated in Ireland promotional
trailer on www.animationireland.com or
www.irishfilmboard.ie
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