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Stephen Irwin

Stephen IRWIN (UK) is a Surrey-based animator. He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in 2005, with an MA in Communication Design, specialising in Animation. His short graduation film Dialog earned him the Best Emerging Talent award at EMERGEANDSEE Film Festival. The Black Dog’s Progress (2008) won Best Short Film at the British Animation Awards, and Moxie (2011) won the Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Film Festival. Moxie was also nominated for Sundance’s Short Film Grand Jury Prize, just like The Obvious Child (2014) and Wood Child & Hidden Forest Mother (2019).

Filmografie

(all short, selection) Dialog (2005), Bows & Arrows (2006), Lightspeed Champion: “Dry Lips” (2007), The Black Dog’s Progress (2008), Atomic Hubbub (2009), Horse Glue (2010), Moxie (2011), Hidden Place – Random Acts (2012), The Obvious Child (2014), Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother (2019)

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Stephen Irwin at IFFR

  • The Black Dog’s Progress

    An urban nightmare, urgently told and delicately aided by the visceral music of Danish composer Sorenious Bonk.

    • Spectrum Shorts
  • Wood Child and Hidden Forest Mother

    Deep in the forest, a hunter encounters a strange creature he cannot kill. A deceptively colourful childish graphic style evokes a bleak, nightmarish

    • Frameworks
  • Moxie

    A pyromaniac bear misses his mother. Thrilling animation from the director of 2009’s Tiger Shorts nominee, The Black Dog’s Progress. Screened before K

    • Spectrum Shorts
  • Horse Glue

    A dystopian cut-and-splice of deep forest survival and 2D breakdown from one of animation’s rising stars.

    • Spectrum Shorts