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Jon Dunleavy
As a Norfolk based artist Jon Dunleavy has directed and produced the animate short The Technical Hitch and written and produced the short Mummy and Baddy.
The Technical Hitch was a collaboration with poet Luke Wright and sound designer Tom Simmons and is narrated by Robert Lindsay. The film went on to showcase in many festivals around the world, culminating in the Best Animation award at Creative East Awards 2007.
New film Mummy and Baddy is a collaboration with director Keith Wilson-Singer and stars Hollywood actor Jason Isaacs as the titular character Baddy, a diabolical thirty nine year old super villain who still lives at home with his mother.
Jon is currently developing both The Technical Hitch and Mummy and Baddy into television formats whilst working as a freelance director and animator with International animation production studio Tandem Films.
Jon has been selected onto the Digital Shorts Scheme with Keith Wilson-Singer and has been selected onto the Digital Shorts Scheme with the project Kapow!
Kapow! tells the story of ten-year-old Jacob. Living with his negligent father and obsessive compulsive mother who cleans the house night and day. His father’s wealth and lazy parenting has bought Jacob all the comics and toys a boy could want. During one of her never-ending cleaning sprees Roy's mother trips on one of Jacob’s many action figures. She decides his collection has got out of hand and in an act of classic villainy she proceeds to burn his beloved comic collection in the gardens.
When Jacob finds his mother destroying his prized possessions, he vows revenge in the only way he knows; he must become a super hero himself!
We then witness Jacob attempt to recreate his super-idols origin circumstances blue peter fashion, i.e. home made gamma rays, radioactive spiders and matrix programs. A series of unfortunate events send him on a hilariously slapstick, yet ultimately fatal journey
John can be contacted via email at jonorono@gmail.com