International Literary Film Festival - New York

Award winning film When the Telescope Came screens in New York this week at the International Literary Film Festival. An Arts Council funded film, it is an adaptation of the poem by Diana Syder about a woman who tries to stop the stars falling into her house.
Details here http://www.literaryfilmfestival.com/
Watch it online here http://www.katejessop.co.uk/kate_jessop.html

National Poetry Day animations

The Southbank Centre asked me to create some animated backdrops for their National Poetry Day live event with performances by poets such as Lemm Sissay, Jackie Kay and Simon Armitage.
Here is one of the little idents: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wc1ghUPBtc

Underwire Film Festival

'Dear Foreigner' came back from Glimmer Film Festival 2011 where it was nominated for Best UK Short and will now be screening at Underwire Festival in November for it's London premiere:
http://www.underwirefestival.com

Girls Guide to Muso Boyfriends in Shooting Peoples Film of the Month

Last years comedy Girls Guide to Muso Boyfriends is competing in this months Shooting Peoples film of the month, to be judged by Matt Groening.
Please 'like' it to encourage it up in the leader board!
http://shootingpeople.org/watch/film.php?film_id=101601

New Icelandic film

The work made on my residency at SIM in Reykjavik is now online. The World Keeps Turning is a piece animated entirely from natural found objects found on the Icelandic coast and is about nature and life cycles.
Watch it here: http://vimeo.com/28068654

ReykjavÍk Show

I will be exhibiting in SIM's group show as part of ReykjavÍks Culture Night, Aug 20th 8 - 11pm. I'll be showing new work made in the artist residency as well as a couple of older films along with 9 other international artists encompassing painting, photography, video and installation.

Dear Foreigner screenings - Albania and USA

'Dear Foreigner' has been selected for two more festivals: Anifest Rozafa Animation festival in Albania http://anifestrozafa.com/and the Short Short Story Film Festival in USA http://www.mergingartsproductions.com/
The adaptation of a real letter a woman wrote to the son she gave up at birth, the IMDB page is here http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1787684/ watch the extract on Vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/22443658