(London--June 6, 2008) th1ng’s executive producer Dominic Buttimore will be on the judging panel for this year’s Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival held at the Troika theatre in Wimbledon, London on the 7th June.
The festival aims to raise awareness and involvement in filmmaking stressing the personal aspect of filmmaking and cinema experience.
Dominic Buttimore has been producing animation and live action for 22 years. He moved into producing at 20 and has run a number of production companies since. After 5 years as head of the 3D CGI department at the Moving Picture Company he founded a prominent mixed media production company, th1ng.
His studio has grown a strong reputation for creating memorable commercials, idents and title sequences for film and TV. Buttimore works with A-list advertising agencies producing adverts for some of the leading blue chip brands including recently Toshiba, Flora, Kwik Fit, Kellogg and many more.
He has successfully lured some of the industry’s most recognised and talented animators, producers and creatives to join th1ng including UK’s most prolific film titles director Richard Morrison and an Oscar nominee, caricaturist Sylvain Chomet.
Among Buttimore’s recent achievements is the addition of a substantial body of film titles production to th1ng’s client base, which has extended creative output beyond the company’s core commercials origins. Buttimore was instrumental in producing title sequences to Tim Burton’s Sweeney Todd and Peter Travis’s Vantage Point earlier this year.
A well regarded figure in the London advertising landscape, Dominic Buttimore has enjoyed a regular presence on numerous film-related awards events and festivals having himself won many coveted advertising accolades including D&AD, BTAA and Creative Circle.
Buttimore has been also actively involved in nurturing young creative talent tutoring European students of arts at Pencil to Pixel, an annual film and animation conference in Prague.
Commenting on the Wimbledon Shorts festival Buttimore said: “This event is a very good opportunity for filmmakers to stand out and make an impact. It will be interesting to see how filmmakers go about putting their visions into moving images”.
Wimbledon Shorts is a filmmaking initiative open to anyone irrespective of their age, background or professional experience. The subject matter is not specified so participants have full freedom in material submission. The only exception is that a film can last no longer than 15 minutes.
Films will be judged upon their creativity, technical aptitude and the clarity of ideas or narrative.
Dominic Buttimore will be joined on the judging panel by Ashvin Kumar, director of Oscar-nominated short film Little Terrorist, film critic Derek Malcolm, filmmaker Josh Appignanesi, screenplay writer Juliet McKoen, artist Manu Luksch and art journalist Lucy Kane.
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