The second of two programmes of shorts in competition for the McLaren Award for Best New British Animation, named after the Scottish co-founder of the National Film Board of Canada. These animated shorts display a plethora of ideas and aesthetics – featured here is an Oscar®-nominated funereal procession, beautiful inner city abstraction, Scottish New Talent winning character animation and innovative BAFTA - nominated brilliance. The winner of the £1000 McLaren Award, supported by BBC Film Network, is chosen by the audience.

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Albert’s Speech

• Richard Fenwick /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 14 mins

GBH, murder, nuclear strike: one man's desperate quest to avoid delivering his best man speech.

Director: Richard Fenwick
Producer: Shane RJ Walter
Scriptwriter: Richard Fenwick
Editor: Paul Hardcastle
DoP: Jake Polonsky
Production Designer: Sam Tidman
Sound Production: Skydd

Ant & Len

• Duncan Raitt, Jon Marsh /
• UK /
• 2009 /
• 2 mins

When one devilish character eats himself out of existence, the other must find a way to bring him back.

Directors: Duncan Raitt, Jon Marsh
Producers: Duncan Raitt, Jon Marsh
Scriptwriters: Duncan Raitt, Jon Marsh
DoP: Duncan Raitt, Jon Marsh
Sound Production: Joe Churchman

The Black Dog's Progress

• Stephen Irwin /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 3 mins

A sad story told with a series of flipbooks, growing denser as looped scenes accumulate and the narrative develops.

Director: Stephen Irwin
Producer: Stephen Irwin
Scriptwriter: Stephen Irwin
Editor: Stephen Irwin
Music: Sorenious Bonk

Codswallop

• The Brothers McLeod /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 4 mins

A subconscious drift through despair, frustration, joy and redemption.

Director: The Brothers McLeod
Producer: The Brothers McLeod
Scriptwriter: The Brothers McLeod
Editor: The Brothers McLeod
DoP: The Brothers McLeod

The Happy Duckling

• Gili Dolev /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 9 mins

An ordinary story about a young boy and a very unordinary duck, about to discover that sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.

Director: Gili Dolev
Producer: Gili Dolev
Scriptwriter: Gili Dolev
Production Designer: Janek Matysiak
Music: Mick Cooke

Harvester

• Nicholas Hampshire /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 3 mins

The harvester enters into a magical forest to collect fruit.

Director: Nicholas Hampshire
Producer: Nicholas Hampshire
Sound Production: Jerry Leeper
Music: Andrew Fotheringham

Lions

• Steve Warne, Julian Krubasik /
• UK /
• 2009 /
• 2 mins

A music video for the ba

Directors: Steve Warne, Julian Krubasik
Scriptwriter: Steve Warne
Editors: Steve Warne, Julian Krubasik
DoP: Julian Krubasik
Music: Jonquil

Little Face

• Matthew Walker, Ben Lole /
• UK /
• 2009 /
• 11 mins

Nathan’s job has nothing to do with dinosaurs. This makes Little Face sad.

Directors: Matthew Walker, Ben Lole
Producers: Jeremy Routledge, Steve Gear
Exec Producers: Sarah Jane-Meredith, Julia Caithness, Arilda Tymko
Scriptwriter: Matthew Walker
Editor: Ben Lole
DoP: Louie Blystad-Collins
Sound Production: Roel Slootman
Music: Oliver Davis

On Time Off

• Bill Porter /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 5 mins

Drawn from life and memories of working in a Cornish café, this animated landscape explores fire, ice cream and micro-dramas between strangers.

Director: Bill Porter
Sound Production: Shervin Shaeri
Music: Stuart Porter, Chris Hawkins

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Round

• Kirk Hendry /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 5 mins

A tale of death and rebirth rages in a world of shadowy hands.

Director: Kirk Hendry
Producers: Libby Durdy, Ally Gipps
Exec Producers: Mark Herbert, Pamela Casey
Scriptwriter: Kirk Hendry
Editor: Kirk Hendry
DoP: Andy Lowe
Music: XX Teens

Terrafarmer

• Will Adams /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 2 mins

A chalk and cheese comedy in which a lone astronaut attempts to terraform a hostile planet with a malfunctioning robot as his only companion.

Director: Will Adams
Producer: Rory Lowe
Scriptwriter: Will Adams
Sound Production: John Cobban, Tom Shrapnel
Music: Jamie Smith

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This Way Up

• Smith & Foulkes /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 9 mins

When a falling boulder flattens their hearse, A T Shank & Son have a bad day, as they make their way cross-country with just a coffin for company.

Director: Smith & Foulkes
Producers: Christopher O'Reilly, Charlotte Bavasso
Scriptwriters: Smith & Foulkes, Christopher O'Reilly
Music: John Greswell, Christopher Taylor

A Traditional Christmas at Small Birds Singing

• Linda McCarthy /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 3 mins

Tiny elephants, arguing apples and a body in the hedge ... just an ordinary day at Small Birds.

Director: Linda McCarthy
Scriptwriter: Steven Appleby
DoP: Linda McCarthy
Music: Verbal Vigilante Music

Without You

• Tal Rosner /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 5 mins

A visual exploration of London's industrial suburbia, inspired by a Josef Albers poem, revealing the complexity of apparently simple forms.

Director: Tal Rosner
Producer: Tal Rosner
Editor: Tal Rosner
DoP: Jack Clough
Sound Production: Tal Rosner

Yowie And The Magpie

• Dylan White /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 4 mins

The downfall of one man and his nemesis – the abominable ape-man of aboriginal folklore – set amid the roc

Director: Dylan White
Producer: Melody Sylvester
Scriptwriter: Tim Telling
Editor: Richard Wheat
Music: Andy Sherriff

The Finger Trap

• Julia McLean /
• UK /
• 2008 /
• 4 mins

Sometimes temptation is too hard to resist for Wilson Brown and his Chinese Finger Trap.

Director: Julia McLean
Producer: Shian Holt
Exec Producers: Cameron Fraser, Neil Jack, Ewan Angus, Robbie Allen, Julia Caithness Dale Corlett, Karen O’Hare
Scriptwriter: Julia McLean
Editor: Eiko Emersleben
Music: John Harris