Manchester Animation Festival

Andrew Baker is an award-winning Producer and Executive Producer and founder of Cantilever Media, a UK based film and television production company.
Cantilever Media’s first animated theatrical feature film was ‘The Amazing Maurice’, based on the award-winning book ‘The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents’ by Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Terry Rossio (Shrek, Aladdin) and co-produced with Ulysses Productions in Germany (Louis and the Aliens, Oops Noah is Gone).
The film stars Hugh Laurie, Emilia Clarke, David Thewlis, Himesh Patel, Gemma Arterton, Hugh Bonneville, Ariyon Bakare, Joe Sugg, Julie Atherton and David Tennant. The Amazing Maurice was longlisted for Best Animated Feature in the BAFTA Film Awards 2022, Won ‘Best Animation’ at Cartoons on the Bay 2023, Won the ‘Audience Choice’ Award at the Nantes Les Utopiales and premiered in the USA at the Sundance Film Festival (2023).
In 2024 The Amazing Maurice was longlisted for The Academy Awards and won a British Animation Award for ‘Best Vocal Performance’ as well as being short listed as ‘Best Animated Feature’.
In 2023, Andrew was shortlisted as ‘CARTOON European Animation Producer of the Year’.
Andrew is currently producing ‘Badjelly’ a 13 x 20’ 2D animated series based on Spike Milligan’s classic children’s story starring Rhys Darby, Ava Diakhaby, Malachi Hall and Miriam Margolyes.
Andrew is currently co-producing ‘Bollywoof’ with Newscope Films (sales agent Embankment Films) and Sky Cinema and has a number of cgi feature films in development including ‘Unstable’ (sales agent Pink Parrot Media), co-produced with CarpeDiem Film & Tv (Canada) and BWater Studios (Spain); and ‘Wed Wabbit’ with Locksmith Animation.
Andrew has also produced, or executive produced, a number of documentary features including ‘Buena Vista Social Club: Adios’, ‘I Am Duran’, ‘The United Way’, ‘Elizabeth Windsor’ (Amazon), and the Sky Original series ‘Mission to Burnley’.
In 2021 Cantilever was awarded funding by the BFI UK Global Screen Fund International Business Development Fund.
Andrew is a full voting member of BAFTA.