GRITTY REALISM PRODUCTIONS - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Managing Director of Gritty Realism / Gritty Films

Gerald Conn, managing director of Gritty Realism/Gritty Films, is an award winning animator and filmmaker with over twenty years of experience whose films have been broadcast on Channel 4 and BBC and shown at numerous international festivals. Gerald at work in his animation studio He specialises in sand-on-glass animation and won the 1998 BAFTA Cymru best animation for his film The Comet's Tale (1998). Gerald has taught animation for a number of years in schools and colleges and has travelled to France, India and Japan to run workshops and to talk about his work. Many of his films are directly choreographed to music and he has made music videos that have been screened on MTV in the UK and abroad. In 2009 Gerald represented the Welsh animation industry at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC and in 2010 his feature animation project Heart of Darkness, based on Joseph Conrad's novel, was selected to be presented in development at the Cartoon Movie forum in Lyon.

Job Titles:

• Producer Wallace and Gromit in the Curse of the Were Rabbit, Commenting on Heart of Darkness an Animated Feature

Michael Rose, producer Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were Rabbit, commenting on Heart of Darkness an Animated Feature