The Brunch Bunch

It's been a week since the Cardiff Animation Festival wrapped and when all's said and done it was an absolutely brilliant first edition, with some of the best overall energy and enthusiasm among the attendees that I've encountered doing the ol' festival rounds. It was a real honour to have been as involved as I was and I have nothing but gratitude and massive respect for the team who pulled it off so well.
For those of you who weren't able to make it, once you've scrubbed the stink of shame off you Laura-Beth has a great write-up on her personal highlights you can check out, while Steve and I will be going through ours in the next podcast due out this week.

In the meantime I was also able to get recordings from the Filmmaker Brunch sessions in which festival guests whose films were playing in competition were able to chat a bit about their work. These included:

• Phil Brookes – Composer, Enough
• Roos Mattaar – Animator, Sparks: Edith Piaf (Said It Better Than Me)
• Myles McLeod – Marfa
• Oscar Barany – Thirsty
• Christina S. Nerland – Leave A Print
• Dotty Kultys – The Hunchback and the Swan
• Thomas White – Cretin
• Yoni Salmon – Niggun
• Ilenia Cotardo – Lemon and Elderflower
• Evgenia Golubeva – I Want to Live in the Zoo
• Sophie Dutton – Lost
• Jake Harvey – Lost
• Anna Eijsbouts – Hate For Sale
  
• Somnath Pal – Death of a Father

What a haul! You can listen to the three-part podcast minisode series I've produced from these below: