BRITISH ANIMATION AWARDS DEADLINE NEARS

THE 4th British Animation Awards are to take place in March next year and the deadline for entries closes on November 30, 2001.
The ceremony will feature 19 awards covering a wide range of British animation production, from children’s to mainstream, student films to commercials.
The awards will also feature three new categories – Best Music Video (UK) and two new international awards, Best European Animated Feature and Best International Short Film.
The awards will be staged at the National Film Theatre on London’s South Bank, on 15 March 2002.
Apart from the international and European categories, the awards are open to any UK-based filmmakers or production companies. All entries must have been produced in the UK in 2000 or 2001.
The BBC’s animated Christmas special, ‘Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire’, won a hat-trick of awards at last year’s event, including Best TV Special, Children’s Choice, and the Best Scenario categories.
Two of last year’s winners were nominated for an Oscar – ‘The Wife of Bath’s Tale’, produced by Joanna Quinn, and Peter Peake’s shadow puppets tale, ‘Hum Drum’.
Studios can enter animated commercials and music videos made for overseas markets provided they were produced in the UK with largely UK talent. (CD)