Learn and be inspired!
One of the many highlights of SPARK ANIMATION are the Production Sessions. Presented by some of the industry’s top talent, this is your opportunity to go behind the scenes of some of the most innovative and exciting new projects of the year.
Prepare to be wowed!
Join Wolfwalkers director Tomm Moore as he and the film's writer Will Collins discuss the process of taking their idea and developing it into the finished film.
The discussion is moderated by assistant director Mark Mullery.
SPEAKER BIOS
TOMM MOORE
Over the company’s history, Tomm has worked as Director, Art Director, Storyboarder, Animator and Illustrator on a range of projects from commercials to service work for feature films and TV series, as well as a number of short films projects. Tomm has directed 2 universally successful feature films. Both were nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Award®: The Secret of Kells in 2010 and the spiritual follow-up, Song of the Sea in 2015.
Tomm also co-directed (with Ross Stewart) the “On Love” segment for The Prophet, a feature animation produced by Salma Hayek based on one of the best-selling books of all time. He has just finished working on his latest feature film Wolfwalkers which he co-directed with Ross Stewart.
Tomm Moore received the Directors Guild of Ireland and America’s Finder’s Series Award in 2008 and European Director of the year at Cartoon Movie in 2009.
MARK MULLERY
Mark Mullery has worked in various roles in both broadcast and feature animation, including as an editor, as a supervisor of both compositing and animation, and as an episode director for broadcast. He has worked for Cartoon Saloon since 2013 when he began as an animator on Song of the Sea.
Since then he has also served as technical director and composite supervisor on Netflix’ Puffin Rock, technical director on Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner, and most recently as assistant director on Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s feature film Wolfwalkers.
WILL COLLINS
Will Collins is a screenwriter whose credits include the Oscar-nominated Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore), its acclaimed follow-up Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart), My Brothers (Paul Fraser), the Netflix special Angela's Christmas.
He has been nominated for a Daytime EMMY (Angela’s Christmas), an ANNIE AWARD (Song of the Sea), an EMILE AWARD (Angela’s Christmas), and two IFTA’s (Song of the Sea, My Brothers).
Learn and be inspired!
One of the many highlights of SPARK ANIMATION are the Production Sessions. Presented by some of the industry’s top talent, this is your opportunity to go behind the scenes of some of the most innovative and exciting new projects of the year.
Prepare to be wowed!
Join Wolfwalkers director Tomm Moore as he and the film's writer Will Collins discuss the process of taking their idea and developing it into the finished film.
The discussion is moderated by assistant director Mark Mullery.
SPEAKER BIOS
TOMM MOORE
Over the company’s history, Tomm has worked as Director, Art Director, Storyboarder, Animator and Illustrator on a range of projects from commercials to service work for feature films and TV series, as well as a number of short films projects. Tomm has directed 2 universally successful feature films. Both were nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Award®: The Secret of Kells in 2010 and the spiritual follow-up, Song of the Sea in 2015.
Tomm also co-directed (with Ross Stewart) the “On Love” segment for The Prophet, a feature animation produced by Salma Hayek based on one of the best-selling books of all time. He has just finished working on his latest feature film Wolfwalkers which he co-directed with Ross Stewart.
Tomm Moore received the Directors Guild of Ireland and America’s Finder’s Series Award in 2008 and European Director of the year at Cartoon Movie in 2009.
MARK MULLERY
Mark Mullery has worked in various roles in both broadcast and feature animation, including as an editor, as a supervisor of both compositing and animation, and as an episode director for broadcast. He has worked for Cartoon Saloon since 2013 when he began as an animator on Song of the Sea.
Since then he has also served as technical director and composite supervisor on Netflix’ Puffin Rock, technical director on Nora Twomey's The Breadwinner, and most recently as assistant director on Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart’s feature film Wolfwalkers.
WILL COLLINS
Will Collins is a screenwriter whose credits include the Oscar-nominated Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore), its acclaimed follow-up Wolfwalkers (Tomm Moore & Ross Stewart), My Brothers (Paul Fraser), the Netflix special Angela's Christmas.
He has been nominated for a Daytime EMMY (Angela’s Christmas), an ANNIE AWARD (Song of the Sea), an EMILE AWARD (Angela’s Christmas), and two IFTA’s (Song of the Sea, My Brothers).
