Twenty years after establishing Lupus Films together, our co-founders Ruth Fielding and Camilla Deakin collected this year’s Fellowship Award at the 2022 Manchester Animation Festival for their contribution to animation.
In a special 90-minute session held at the festival on Tuesday, November 15, Ruth and Camilla received the award, reflecting on twenty years of creating high-quality entertainment for families around the globe, celebrating the extraordinary stories and people behind the making of their best-loved films and giving a sneak preview of exciting projects in the production pipeline.
Camilla Deakin and Ruth Fielding said: “We are incredibly excited to receive this prestigious honour from the Manchester Animation Festival in our 20th year. The Manchester Animation Festival is a huge supporter of the animation industry in this country and this award is a testament to the incredible talent and dedication of the people who have worked alongside us on our productions over the last 20 years”.
Founded in 2002, Lupus Films has developed an international reputation for beautifully crafted film adaptations of classic works of literature which have been seen in cinemas and on major broadcasters and SVOD channels worldwide. Their much-loved, much-watched productions include The Snowman and The Snowdog, Ethel & Ernest, We’re Going on A Bear Hunt and the International Emmy award-winning The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
Projects currently in development and production include an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s Kensuke’s Kingdom, featuring the voices of Cillian Murphy and Sally Hawkins, a trio of films based on Benji Davies’ beautiful Storm Whale books and Las Dos Fridas, a colourful feature film about the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.