Robert Bradbrook
Animator | Bradbrook Films
Born in 1965 in England, Robert started his professional career as a cartographer whilst making slide shows and cine films in his spare time. In 1991 he returned to college to develop his hobby and took an MA in Electronic Arts and Graphics at Coventry University. There he created his first computer animation The Sleeper.
In 1993 he was awarded an Arts Council of England Animate! grant to make End of Restriction, a five minute film created on a home-based Apple Mac that enters the world of a teenage boy living in an English village.
He completed Home Road Movies in 2001 for Channel 4 and the Arts Council of England National Lottery. Again created on a desktop computer, the film tells the true story of his father and their family car. The film went on to be nominated for a Bafta and won some of the most prestigious awards in animation including the Cartoon d’Or in 2004.
At present Robert is finishing his latest film, Dead Air which deals with the unstoppable nature of ‘change’ in our lives and in the communities where we live.
He has also collaborated with many other film-makers including Yousaf Ali Khan on his Bafta nominated live action short Talking with Angels and producing the opening animated sequence.
Between films Robert runs his own company – Bradbrook Films – and provides animation for film, television and new media.
He lives in London with his partner and two young children.