Meet our Team
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Meet our Team *
iAin Gardner
Director
Iain Gardner graduated from the Royal College of Art, MA in Animation in 1996 with a previous BA Hons in Illustration from The Glasgow School of Art in 1993. Based in Edinburgh, Iain is an animation filmmaker with an International reputation that has been enhanced by the McLAREN 2014 project celebrating the Centenary of Scottish born filmmaker Norman McLaren. His most recent short film THE TANNERY qualified for the long list of 45 short animations considered for the 2012 Academy Awards®.
His early career got off to a flying start as an apprentice on triple Academy Award® winning Richard Williams’ legendary Masterpiece THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER. Other studios Iain animated at include TVC in London, which produced THE YELLOW SUBMARINE and THE SNOWMAN. His animation techniques are discussed within THE ANIMATION BIBLE by Maureen Furniss (2008) and the 2nd edition of THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ANIMATION (2016).
Normand ROger
music
Born in Montreal, Normand Roger began his career as a freelance composer in 1971 for the National Film Board of Canada. Although he has worked primarily in the domain of animation, creating well over two hundred sound tracks in the last 52 years, he has also composed music for documentaries, features, television dramas, children series, commercials, multi-media installations and many music themes for television in Canada and in the US.
He is known abroad largely due to the success of the animated films on which he collaborated. These films have garnered several hundred prizes in international festivals including 13 Nominations for Academy Awards of which 6 received Oscars. He regularly works for productions in the US, Europe, Russia and Japan and he has also been invited regularly to give lectures on the theme of "Music & Sound for Animation" which remains his field of choice.
Although he works in a traditional way when he composes music for dramas or documentaries doing exclusively the music, he has a particular approach with animation where he creates the full soundtrack including the sound effects.
iAin Harvey
Producer
Iain Harvey was executive producer on: the Oscar nominated, BAFTA award winning Christmas special THE SNOWMAN (1982); WHEN THE WIND BLOWS (1987), directed by Jimmy Murakami which won the feature film prize at Annecy; SPIDER! (1991), animated series for the BBC; and award winning FATHER CHRISTMAS (1991).
Iain was producer on: animated special PRINCE CINDERS (1993); THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR & OTHER STORIES winning various festival prizes including an award in Germany for Best Children's Video and released in America on the Disney video label; T.R.A.N.S.I.T (1997), BAFTA and Cartoon d'Or nominated, winner of The Grand Prize and Best Film in its category at The World Animation Celebration in Los Angeles, won the LA Film Critic's Award, as well as the Audience Prize and Grand Prix at the Espinho Animation festival; animated feature CHRISTMAS CAROL – THE MOVIE (2001); half-hour special WAR GAME (2002), which won numerous awards including the Children’s Choice Award at the BAA, Best Television Special at the Annecy International Animation Festival, the International Student Jury Award at the Banff International Television Festival, Best Production of the Year at the Cartoons on the Bay Festival in Italy and 1st prize at the Cinemagic Festival in Belfast; Three times BAFTA nominated LITTLE PRINCESS series (135 x 11 mins and 2 x 22 mins); feature film LITTLE PRINCESS AND THE LEGEND OF BLUE FOOT has also been announced; award winning special ON ANGEL WINGS; and a new surreal comedy series THE RUBBISH WORLD OF DAVE SPUD (6+), commissioned by ITV and winner of the RTS Award for Best Children’s Series 2022.
Włodzimierz Matuszewski is a Polish producer and screenwriter. He started to work in 1976 in Studio Miniatur Filmowych in Warsaw as a screenwriter and script doctor. In 1991 he became the head of SMF and kept this position until the 2019. He produced many TV series (HipHip Hurray, Mami Fatale, Patchwork Kingdom etc.) and short & feature animated movies (Mr Blot’s Triumph, Magical Mountain, A Bear Named Wojtek). As one of the main producers of polish animation cinema Matuszewski left state owned SMF to head his private animation studio Filmograf, also based in Warsaw. He continue to produce and write animation films for both kids and adult
WLodzimierz Matuszewski
Producer
Wojciech Lepianka
Writer
Wojciech Lepianka is a Polish film screenwriter. He is a graduate of Polish philology at the University of Lodz and the Screenwriting Studies of the Film School in Lodz. Winner of the most important Polish film awards including the Award for the script of the film „My Bicycle” at the 2012 Gdynia Film Festival and a nomination for the Polish Film Award, Eagle for the script of the film „Edi”. Both films were artistic and commercial successes in Polish cinemas.
Born in Quebec, he lives in Montreal. In the early 2000s, he specialized in the creation of soundtracks with Normand Roger as mentor, internationally renowned sound designer and composer with whom he worked full-time over ten years. Active as a composer of music for image, sound designer and mixer, he has created more than sixty soundtracks for films and animated series, in addition to several others for documentaries, series, live-action films, multimedia installations and advertisements.
pierre yves drapeau
SOUND
joanna Ronikier
Executive Producer
Joanna Ronikier is an experienced producer of animated series, docs and feature films for children. She graduated from EAVE workshops in 2016. Joanna took part in many internationally awarded co-productions such as: "Magic Mountain" by Anca Damian (awards in Karlovy Vary 2017) and numerous animated series for children (“Mami Fatale” series II and III, “Bali” II, "Socks" and many others). Joanna for many years works for one of the TVP most popular live action series “Commissioner Alex”.
Nick Harvey
Executive Producer
Nick is an experienced Executive Producer at The Illuminated Film Company. He has worked on a number of projects and developments including five 2D animated series, two specials and two commercials. These include The Rubbish World of Dave Spud, Little Princess, special A Bear Named Wojtek and Barbour Father Christmas commercial. He has built up experience in international distribution of titles, raising finance and managing budgets of productions. He was an expert on Screen Skills financing course. He has been a panellist for a number of pitching events and attends most major markets
Ross Hogg
Animation DIrector
Ross Hogg is an award-winning animation filmmaker from Scotland. His work focuses on creating dexterous, hand-crafted animation using a variety of materials, celebrating the vibrancy and physicality of the medium.
Having screened his films internationally at prestigious festivals, he has been honoured by BAFTA Scotland, receiving seven nominations whilst winning the award on two occasions. He has also picked up awards at Vienna Shorts Festival, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Hamburg Short Film Festival, and BFI Future Film Festival.
Rachel Bevan Baker works as an animator, artist, illustrator and teacher and lives on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands.
She has directed and art directed numerous award winning animated films and co-founded Red Kite Animations in Edinburgh with producer Ken Anderson.
Rachel has lectured in Animation and life drawing at Edinburgh College of Art and other Scottish art schools. As one of the first recipients of a Creative Scotland Award, she produced the travelling films and exhibition "Beaches".
In between teaching Art & Design in secondary and primary schools, Rachel fits in freelance animation projects, illustration work and working with Black Isle Collective, the local artists' group she founded.
rachel bevan baker
Art director
Will Anderson
Compositor
Will Anderson is a BAFTA-winning filmmaker and animator from Scotland. Edinburgh based, he writes, directs & produces lots of character driven, dialogue-led animated work for film, tv, theatre & online. With character at the heart of it, spanning 2D to 3D design, process drives his stories which lean on existential themes.
Will’s work has been commissioned and supported by BBC, BFI, MTV, [adult swim] and Warner Bros. Discovery.