 from "Bob's Birthday"  from a British Inland Revenue ad  from "In and Out"  from "Ricky Sprocket"  from "Bob and Margaret"  from "George and Rosemary" |
Alison and David live in Vancouver, Canada where they are currently in production with Studio B Productions on their latest TV series, Ricky Sprocket, Showbiz Boy for Nickelodeon International and Teletoon. Previously, they created 52 episodes of their award winning half hour prime time adult TV series, Bob and Margaret. The series was based on their Oscar winning short film Bob's Birthday and was broadcast in the US on the Comedy Central Network, in Canada on The Global Television Network, in the U.K. on Channel 4 and The Paramount Comedy Channel and on other networks all over the world. Alison also provided the voice of Margaret. in the short and the series. David did the voice of an incomprehensible pizza delivery guy in one episode!
Alison Snowden (British) and David Fine (Canadian) both graduated from The National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield U.K. in 1984, where they met, working in both live action and animation. Alison's short animated student film, Second Class Mail (1984), a film about mail order love, won a number of international awards including best first film at Annecy and an Oscar nomination. At film school they worked alongside other renowned animators Nick Park (Wallace and Gromit, etc) and Mark Baker (Peppa Pig).
After film school they moved to Canada where they worked at The National Film Board in Montreal. There they made George and Rosemary (1987), a short animated film about elderly romance. This film received an Oscar nomination, a Canadian Academy Award, first prize at The Zagreb Animation Festival, as well as a number of other awards.
In and Out (1989), a wry film about life beyond the womb, won awards at The Berlin Film Festival, Athens, and a Canadian Academy Award nomination.
In 1989, they decided to move back to London where they worked for fifteen years, making Bob's Birthday, Bob and Margaret and numerous TV ads and other stuff in between.
Other work includes a segment for the short erotic film Pink Komkommer, the script for the humorously macabre NFB short animation, Deadly Deposits and various commercial work including the award winning Smarties Policeman ad and the long runnig national UK campaign for the Inland Revenue featuring a tax inspector voiced by Sir Alec Guiness.
Alison has written for the animated series Peppa Pig and Alison and David developed the Aardman series Shaun the Sheep.
In 2005 they relocated back to Canada, but this time Vancouver, BC! They now happily reside there with their daughter, Lily, who starred as the original voice of Peppa Pig, back when she had a British accent.
Visit their website for more information ... http://snowdenfine.awn.com/ | ||||
 "Finding Dawn"  "From Under the Bushy Trees"  "Flipping the World"  Kosovo: Fragile Peace |
Independent filmmaking and international work is also a hallmark of Moira Simpson’s work. Whether her eye is turned to Kosovo: fragile peace, or to documenting the work From Under the Bushy Trees, a Canadian effort to establish a school in Chad, Mo Simpson’s is committed to using film to tell story and communicate diverse perspectives. Her current project is with Fearless City Mobile, using mobile phone video with marginalized residents and artists of the Downtown East Side of Vancouver. Through interactive live streaming and creating video, the residents are crossing the digital divide as they tell their own stories on film. Simpson has often combined filmmaking with teaching, giving workshops in film throughout Canada. She’s taught film both at UBC and at Emily Carr College of Art Design, and won the highest student evaluations for her work at ECCAD. Amongst her many other awards, Mo Simpson was recently Honoured with the Kodak Image of Excellence for Women in Film and Television. |
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