23 Degrees 5 Minutes

Brown Bag Films animator extraordinaire Darragh O’Connell has been making a new short ‘23 Degrees 5 Minutes’ and here's a sneek peek. It's Brown Bag Films first short since Darragh and Nicky Phelan were shortlisted for an Oscar for ‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’ last year. Original score by super talented Darren Hendley, guaranteed to give you shivers. It will also feature the voices of John Hurt and Stuart Townsend. I can't wait to see the rest now!

23 degrees will premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh this summer. Go have a look at Darragh's excellent behind the scenes making of 23 degrees over on The Brown Bag Blog.

Oscar Time!

I am delighted that my friends over at Brown Bag Films have been nominated for an Oscar for Granny O'Grimm!

If you haven't seen it yet do so here, it's fantastic!
She has a message for Oscar here.

Granny O'Grimm hits the big time!

Irish animation company Brown Bag have been shortlisted for an Oscar for Granny O’Grimm! I am developing one of my picture books I'm a Happy Hugglewug with Brown Bag Films into a preschool animation series and having great fun doing it. They are a super dooper bunch of incredibly talented people, check out their website here.

They have sucessfully brough a new look to Noddy and the infamous Olivia. The Olivia title sequence is my favourite preschool opener.