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28/9/2018

Locksmith Animation team to host masterclass at Manchester Animation Festival

Manchester Animation Festival 2018 

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A masterclass from UK feature animation studio Locksmith Animation is one of the highlights of the fourth annual Manchester Animation Festival (MAF), which runs from November 13-15.  
MAF will take place at Manchester’s HOME cinema. The programme includes an animated short competition, screenings of new features, retrospective screenings, workshops and networking events. Panel and discussion events will include ‘Animated Women UK’, a platform for women in the animation business to share their stories.
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Screenings at the Manchester event include Chuck Steel: Night Of The Trampires, ​
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BY BEN DALTON27 SEPTEMBER 2018

14/6/2018

How independent European animation is taking on the US studios

Sarah Smith talks to Screen Daily

With indie producers and sellers piling into the animation space, can Europe measure up to the powerfully resourced US studio brands and capture the family market?
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SOURCE: ANNECY ANNECY FILM FESTIVAL 2017
Independent animated film is flourishing in Europe as never before. In Cannes, the market was awash in animated projects, many of them represented by sales agents who generally handle live-action fare. “I had lunch with friends in Cannes and one of my buyers told me that she was tracking 40 animated films this market,” says Solveig Langeland, managing director of German animation specialists Sola Media, of the wealth of animated product. “I have the feeling every second sales agency has an animated film. Five years ago, we had very few competitors. Now, they seem to come from everywhere.”

“I am certainly seeing more buyers who say they are actively looking for animated projects,” agrees Mike Runagall, managing director of London-based Altitude Film Sales, which handled worldwide sales on Studio Ponoc’s anime film, Mary And The Witch’s Flower. “Some buyers are trying to diversify, maybe arthouse buyers you wouldn’t necessarily always associate with animation are trying to branch out a little. That’s a consequence of the market for arthouse films becoming tougher.”
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The obvious reason for the activity is the sector’s solid box-office performance. “There is just an appetite in the family market,” says Sarah Smith, director of Aardman’s Arthur Christmas. She is one of the co-founders of ambitious new London-based animation studio Locksmith Animation, alongside her old Aardman colleague Julie Lockhart and Shine Communications’ Elisabeth Murdoch. Twentieth Century Fox is releasing Locksmith’s first feature, Ron’s Gone Wrong, in 2020.
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BY GEOFFREY MACNAB/ 11 JUNE 2018 Screen Daily

21/5/2018

UK Animation Firm Locksmith Opens London Complex

Locksmith Launches London studios

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The 5,000 square-foot Primrose Hill studio, which is spread across three floors, will be home to 70 artists, staff and crew and is the first dedicated CG-feature studio of its kind in the UK. Locksmith is in part backed by UK post-production firm Double Negative (Godzilla) and has a multi-year deal with Twentieth Century Fox for U.S. and global distribution. The company wants to deliver one movie every 12 – 18 months.
The firm is currently in production on their first feature Ron’s Gone Wrong, which will tell the story of a walking, talking, digitally connected bot that sweeps the world becoming every kid’s new best friend. When an eleven-year-old boy ends up with one that doesn’t work, however, he must try to teach it. The film is due for release November ​
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Locksmith Animation’s Co-CEO’s Sarah Smith and Julie Lockhart said, “The studio gives a home to Locksmith’s high-flying ambition to create a major new strand of CG animated movies here in London.  It’s a wonderful building – but it’s the artists it houses that are our greatest assets. We hope it will add to the appeal of London as a world-class destination for the best animation talent working today.” Elisabeth Murdoch is co-founder and chairman of the company.
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​by Andreas Wiseman March 27, 2018 

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