Thank You Young Audiences Content Fund

The BFI Young Audiences Content Fund was a 3 year pilot that supported the development and production of TV for children and teenagers across the UK including brilliant new animated projects. The Fund supported 161 development projects and enabled 63 brand new television programmes, creating 227 hours of content for young audiences in the UK that otherwise would not have been financed and delivered.

The pilot scheme has now concluded but still in the works are many animated development and production projects. Join us as we take a look at some of these projects, including Albert’s Islands, Mustard & Ketchup, A Bear Named Wojtek, Pop Paper City and Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared and celebrate the work of the Fund.

Guests

Charlie Perkins

Charlie is the newly appointed Head of the multi-award-winning Channel 4 Comedy department.

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James Stevenson Bretton

James is the Founder and Managing Partner of BAFTA-nominated and Emmy-winning production company Blink Industries, a development and production studio working across animation and live action, with a 120-seat animation studio in North London.

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Hannah Lee Miller

Hannah Lee Miller has worked in numerous roles on animated children’s TV series, her most recent and notable project has been producing the children’s TV show Peppa Pig with the original team and its creators.

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Iain Gardner

Iain is the Creative Director of Animation Garden, currently in partnership with Iain Harvey’s Illuminated Film Company and Filmograf Poland in the production of A Bear Named Wojtek, which he also directs.

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Georgina Hurcombe

Georgina Hurcombe is the producer of the BFI YACF-funded preschool series Pop Paper City, and the founder of animation studio Lovelove Films.

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