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We are interested in engaging with an animator graduate with a First or Upper Second Degree in a related area, for a series of development projects. A background in storyboarding, character design or illustration, 3D (Maya) and 2D After Effects would be advantageous.

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Congratulations to all the directors, producers, editors and anyone else from BU postgrads who won awards at the Landcrab film festival in early May:

DUEL (Abdul Ghannam dir and prod James Christopherson) for Best Narrative and Best Dialogue
CASES OF DETECTIVE POLICEMAN ( dir Will Hitchins, prod Padraic O'Sullivan, prod Camilla Findlay) for Best Actor, Will Hitchins for Best Director and People's Choice Award for Best Film by popular audience vote.
SPIN (Hanna Hargrave prod and David Klein dir) for Best Sound Design.

For the second year running, a BSMA BA (Hons) Animation Production graduate is celebrating success at the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards. James Norman, who graduated in 1998 and is now lead motion capture animator on the development team at Rocksteady Studios Ltd, won the Best Game and Gameplay awards for Batman: Arkham Asylum. At last year’s awards ceremony, Francis Pang, another Animation graduate from the University College, won the BAFTA for Artistic Achievement for his work on Little Big Planet.

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The Annecy International Animation Festival has selected four of the AUCB's BA (Hons) Animation Production 2009 graduation films for the Annecy ‘Graduation Films’ competition.  This is an outstanding result for the AUCB course.
The selected films are:
BROKEN WAVE (Directed by Chris Allen), LULLABY (Directed by Nick White and recent winner of RTS Students Television Society Awards 2009, Southern Region, Undergraduate Animation category), PARADIS (Directed by Adrian Maganza), and
TRAIN OF THOUGHT (Directed by Ben Thomas and Leo Bridle and recent winner of Animex 2010, Experimental Animation category and also winner of 1st prize in the Super Shorts category at Skepto Film Festival, Italy). Read more...

The Grierson British Documentary Awards are the premier awards in the UK for documentary film, and the nine competitive categories which are now receiving entries for 2010 include a Best Newcomer section which carries a £3,000 cash prize that goes to the director.  Murray Weston, Co-Director of the BSMA, is a trustee of The Grierson Trust and will be happy to advise Bournemouth alumni and students considering entering this scheme - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Read more...

A group of BU graduates, led by director Jon Scorer, won 'Best Film,' Best Documentary' and 'Best Sound' for their short fim REACHING ALBION at the National Student Film Festival held in Bristol in late February. Read more...