Sheffield’s 2011 film festival for young people has a packed programme for the public and for schools. There are brand new never-before-seen films, exciting workshops with talented actors and we’ve dug some older films and TV shows out of the archive so parents can show their kids what they used to watch!

The film and workshop programme is on offer to the general public during the two weekends (including the final screening on Fridays) and for school groups during the week.

Showroom Cinema
Paternoster Row
Sheffield S1 2BX

Small World returns to Barnsley from 24 October 2011. The Small World Festival provides an exciting opportunity to watch some of the world’s best current animated short films and also enjoy an exhibition that highlights important areas of animation past and present.

Screeningtimes may vary: 10.00am, 12.00noon and 2.00pm mon – fri

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The Civic, Hanson Street, Barnsley, S70 2HZ, Telephone Number: 01226 327 000

Curating a selection of short animations suitable for family viewing is much harder than first appears! Animation is a great story telling device, and animation focused at children has often pushed the envelope addressing themes that are dark or difficult. The challenge is finding the best films that are dramatic, entertaining, engaging, maybe have a bit of an ‘ick’ factor (what child doesn’t love superheroes who need the toilet?), have an overall positive message without being too much of a parable, but which don’t have swearing, excessive violence or generally unsuitable content. There’s no formal rating system for films not on distribution so the curator has to rely on good judgement and a keen eye for detail! Oscar winning animation Logorama is a prime example – on one hand a great, lively exploration of brand ubiquity; on the other hand littered with profanity and some more dubious elements to the story! That’s definitely one for the grown ups!

Small World has drawn together a number of screening packages of family friendly animation. If you would like to take one of these packages for your own event or club, or discuss a bespoke collection just contact us to find out more.

Profiles on the makers of Nullarbour

Patrick Sarell – Writer / Producer / Co-Director / Animation Director

One of the founding partners of The Lampshade Collective, Patrick Sarell has worked as an animation producer, rigger and animator across a variety of
projects including television commercials, computer games and feature film. He has worked for companies such as Illoura, Animal Logic and Rising Sun
Pictures. “Nullarbor” is his first film as writer, producer, animation director and co-director.

Alister Lockhart – Director / Co-Writer

Alister Lockhart began his career as a commercial illustrator for Random House, Intrepid Trading Cards and Walt Disney Australia.
In his ten years in the games industry Alister has worked on 16 released games titles, and has written and directed animations for games such as SSG’s
‘Warlords: Battlecry’ I & II, and Tantalus Media’s ‘Payload’, ‘Top Gear: Downforce’ and Infinite Interactive’s ‘Puzzle Quest 2′.
“Nullarbor” is Alister’s first short film as director and co-writer.

The Lampshade Collective – Production Company

Established in late 2007 by Patrick Sarell, Daryl Munton and Katrina Mathers and later joined by Merrin Jensen, The Lampshade Collective was set up to
create high quality animated original content for the Australian and International market.

“Nullarbor” is the first completed original project to be released by the company. It was funded through Film Victoria’s “Propeller Shorts” program with
additional post production funding by Screen Australia.

The Bradford Animation Festival kicks into gear between 8-12 November 2011 and this year the headline star is Andy Schmidt from Pixar. Pixar continue to do amazing things with animation and summer 2011 saw the animated feature Cars 2 hit the big screens. This got us thinking at Small World Towers who might be the headliners in future years – which new animators could be the ones to watch? There’s no doubt Studio AKA continue to go from strength to strength with their mesmerising work on Lost and Found and idents for the last Winter Olympics. France benefits from investment in the animation industry and animators coming out of the main schools in Paris (The Gobelins School), Valenciennes and Arles (Supinfocom). India now boasts DSK Supinfocom which is also educating some of the best emerging talent.

Coming soon will be a submission page for up and coming animators to enter their work for our next student showcase. Maybe this will be where the next Pixar emerges? Watch this space!

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/AboutUs/PressOffice/2011/October/PixarAndySchmidtheadlinesBAFGame.aspx

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