Working the village shop, putting a poster up

Our Folksy online shop is now, finally, stocked up with some stuff! We've got zines and books, magnets, postcards - all the sorts you would expect from Emily and I. Come buy here!

On a street that comes and goes by the name of buy and sell

Emily and I are going to do a stall at the Sunday Market sometime in the next couple of months. It's a monthly craft fair at the Islington Mill in Manchester. In the meantime please enjoy this lovely poster:

It sells on market stalls, parades Milan catwalks

Emily and I will be selling more stuff at some more fayres coming up soon. The usual zines and whatnot will be available at:

Lawrence Batley Theatre Summer Fayre in Huddersfield on Saturday 13th August

Sheffield Zine Fair on Sunday 25th September

And then we've got a big one lined up in Leeds in November, but that's ages away. These will do for now!

London calling

We're very happy to say that Spin Spun Span has been selected for the British Showcase strand at this year's London International Animation Festival! Apparently looooads of films were entered, but we are one of the lucky 15 to be screening! Also in the 15 are two filmmakers I know, Julia Pott, who we both graduated with, and Linda McCarthy, a fellow Northern animator. I am pleased we are keeping good company. The screening is the 1st September, but the whole Festival runs from the 26th August. You can find out more and buy tickets if you so wish here.

1-2-3-4-5-6-7, all computers go to heaven

Our new website is up! All our latest work is now online: our shorts films, our freelance bits - some directed by us, some simply animated - and even a new gallery of our illustration work. Come take a look!

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it

Spin Spun Span screened in NYC earlier this week, and it looks like it was a lovely summer evening:

In other news, our website is sooo close to being updated... It's actually sort of online now, except that I messed up the video encoding, and so you can't see any of our animated work moving! Which is the main event, and so defeats the purpose. Sigh. I am going to fix it hopefully tonight or tomorrow; either way there really, hopefully, should be - fingers crossed - a new Emily & Anne website up and working by Monday.

Now there's no leaving New York

You probably don't live in New York, but if you did I would recommend that you go to Telegraph 21/Shooting People's summer short screenings. Rather delightfully, they are showing Spin Spun Span! I am always happy and surprised that Spin Spun Span apparently translates. It seems such a distinctly British film to me, and especially so Northern given its subject matter, but it has shown at quite a few international venues so far. It's also been accepted into a couple of big festivals recently, but I don't think I'm meant to mention specifics until they finalise their programmes, but rest assured they are good screenings!

I will stop blowing my own trumpet now.