Laurie Hill

Laurie Hill is an award-winning multi-media animator and director based in London. He often works with archival and found materials.

He studied at the Royal College of Art and his work has screened at many festivals and galleries worldwide including Sundance, AFI Fest, Telluride Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art New York, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, New Art Gallery Walsall, Cornerhouse Manchester and Museum Of London.

Selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2007. Finalist in Jerwood Moving Image Awards 2008. His film Photograph Of Jesus won Best Experimental Short Film at Chicago International Film Festival, Best Animated Short at Seattle International Film Festival, Best Of British Jury Award at Encounters Film Festival and the McLaren Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Recently, he directed High Street Repeat in collaboration with Osbert Parker, and also directed Honkytonk’s Dream – both of which screen at MAF this year.