Brown Bag Films nominated for Producer of the Year at Cartoon Tribute
Irish animation company, Brown Bag Films, has been nominated for the prestigious ‘Producer of the Year' award as part of the EU CARTOON TRIBUTE 2009. Brown Bag Films is nominated alongside three other European animation studios for the award, which will be voted by European producers. The awards ceremony will take place at the CARTOON Forum in Norway on Friday 25th September.
Over the past year, Brown Bag Films have produced 20 hours of computer animation for international broadcasters. Their 52 part series ‘Olivia' for Chorion is currently airing on Nickelodeon US and FIVE UK, and their remake of Chorion's ‘Noddy in Toyland' for TF1 France and FIVE UK is also on air. Brown Bag Films are currently in production with a new 52 episode series as well as a number of pilots for international broadcasters.
"We are delighted with this nomination, it is great to have the hard work of our talented creative and production teams recognised by the European animation industry" said Darragh O'Connell, co-founder and Director of ‘Olivia'.
Brown Bag Films will also be presenting their new series ‘Granny O'Grimm' at this year's CARTOON Forum, where it is the number one project on the interest list in advance of the Forum. ‘Granny O Grimm' is based on the IFTA-winning short film by director Nicky Phelan and writer/performer Kathleen O'Rourke, produced in 2008 for Frameworks (Irish Film Board/RTE/Arts Council). The website http://www.grannyogrimm.com/, featuring Granny stories, film clips and competitions, will go live on 10 September.
Located in Smithfield, Brown Bag Films are a computer animation studio employing more than 50 permanent staff with offices in Toronto and Seoul. Co-founder and Chief Executive Cathal Gaffney, was recently nominated for the Ernst & Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year'.