Manchester Animation Festival

Imogen Sutton is the Academy and BAFTA nominated film producer and director of Prologue. Her award winning documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 include Animating Art and Daughters of de Beauvoir (with associated book). Her first job in the film industry was as a runner in Soho, London and she went on to work in editing and research before becoming a producer and director. Her career in animation began producing the feature film The Thief and the Cobbler and then the sell-out Richard Williams’ Animation Masterclasses around the world including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London , Sydney, Hong Kong, the Annecy Animation Festival and as in-house events at Warner Bros and Blue Sky Studios. Sutton is co-editor of the best-selling book The Animator’s Survival Kit and producer/director of the follow-up 16 DVD box-set and prize-winning iPad app. She is co-author of Adventures in Animation .