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2011 Festival Judges
David Sproxton
David is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Aardman. Together with co-founder Peter Lord, he has overseen the development of the company from a two-man partnership to one of the pre-eminent animation houses in the industry. David has served as a producer, director or cinematographer on a number of animated projects at Aardman.
David co-produced Aardman’s first feature film Chicken Run (2000), the Wallace and Gromit feature The Curse of the Wererabbit (2005), and the CGI feature Flushed Away (2006), made in association with DreamWorks.
David is currently involved in the production of ‘Pirates In An Adventure With Scientists’ and ‘Arthur Christmas’, two feature films being produced in association with Sony Pictures. He is also involved in the many TV projects the studio is producing including ‘Shaun the Sheep’ and ‘Timmy Time’.”
Read our interview with David.
Laura Marshall
In 1990 with husband Harry Marshall, Laura moved to Bristol and they founded Icon Films.
Together with managing Icon Films, Laura also Executive Produces much of Icon’s output. .
Laura was also appointed Chair of the Bristol Old Vic Theatre Trust in 2010 and sits on the Management Committee of Wildscreen, the world's largest festival of moving images from the natural world.
Jayne Chard
Producer/Director Jayne Chard was nominated for a BAFTA for her moving portrayal of women with HIV and AIDS for Channel Four and has five further awards for documentaries as well as the Royal Shakespeare Buzz Goodbody Award for theatre directing.
Jayne has produced and directed documentaries for all the major broadcasters and is also an accomplished commercials and drama director. Her drama credits include Hollyoaks, Grange Hill and Brookside.
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Dominic Weston
Dominic Weston graduated in Drama from Exeter University and ever since has been working in the television industry. Starting out as a Tape Op and progressing through the ranks to be a freelance Producer, Director and Writer with a penchant for short films.
Dominic has also been closely involved with Wildscreen, the international Wildlife Film Festival, for more than 8 years and produced the Panda Awards Ceremony for the last three festivals.
Currently working at Icon Films in Development, Dominic Series Produced three seasons of Icon Films VT shorts for BBC 1’s “The One Show”.
Read our interview with Dominic.
Peter Netley
Peter Netley has had a long and distinguished career in the world of Television Design and Photography, including working for the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
In 1980 he took up a post as head of the Graphic Design Department for the BBC in Bristol, which provided creative design and animation services to the Natural History Unit and the Television Features' department.
Peter left the BBC in 1990, and along with two other designers set up award winning Bristol-based 4:2:2 Videographics. In 2001, Peter left the world of television design, to concentrate on his other passion, photography.
In 2004, he held a three week one-man show entitled 'Signs of Life' at the prestigious OXO Gallery on London's South Bank. Since then he has regularly exhibited in the West Country, his latest exhibition at the Glass Room in Bristol's Colston Hall is entitled 'Chasing Colour' and is based on his recently published ‘Blurb’ book featuring images from Central America.
Read our interview with Peter.