Blink Freehand is thrilled to have been awarded Most Oustanding Children’s Program for Penelope K, by the way at the 2011 ASTRA Awards. We’d like to thank the incredibly talented Amanda Bishop who bought PK and Squirm to life, Director Peter Cudlipp and all the production crew who brought their combined creativity and talent to [...]

Penenlope K, by the way has been nominated for Most Outstanding Children’s Program Award alongside Camp Orange and Go Lingo. Winners will be announced on 21st July. Here is a link to the full list of finalists http://www.astraawards.com/finalists-holding.php

Penelope K, by the way, Series 1 is now available at the iTunes store for download – $19.37 for the whole season or $1.49 for your favourite episode – Bargain! If you’re new to Penelope K she has bags of enthusiasm but can’t be completely relied on as answers have a way of floating out [...]

Blink Freehand is delighted to announce that Hugo Weaving has just completed recording the narration on the test animation for The Adventures of Mr McGee. The animation was created by the extremely clever folk at Blue Rocket productions in Tasmania and the score was done by David Chapman of Zig Zag Lane who set a [...]

Blink Freehand are thrilled to reveal that three of Australia’s most successful street artists have signed up for the pilot for Paint My Story. Anthony Lister, Brett Chan and Ben Frost are all recognised locally and internationally as exciting new talent in the highly competitive street art scene. Working with director Peter Cudlipp they will [...]

Blink Freehand and JDR Screen are pleased to announce that Screen Tasmania and the South Australian Film Corporation has awarded the producers Michael Bourchier and Julie De Roeper development money to adapt Pamela Allen’s Mr McGee books. The producers will be creating a test animation, series bible and example script for pitching at Kidscreen in [...]

Screen NSW and the ACTF have committed development funds to Blink Freehand for their new live action kids series Paint My Story. The funding will enable Blink to shoot a not for broadcast pilot and create series budgets, schedules and pitching materials in readiness for the kids market in NY Kidscreen. Paint My Story – [...]

The Foundation and Freehands “Escape From Scorpion Island” has been nominated for a Kids Bafta in the Entertainment Category. Here is the link to the full list of nominees as announced by BAFTA http://www.bafta.org/awards/childrens/awards-2009,879,BA.html. Winners will be announced on 28 November 2010. Congrats to our friends who were also nominated: the “dirtgirlworld” team and Nick Hopkins [...]

If you happen to be in Adelaide tomorrow, Michael is speaking at the TV mini lab hosted by the SAFC. He will be sharing his thoughts on Pre-school television in Australia and around the world: what are the key elements and how the business of pre-school works. He will take the participants through a case [...]

This week Libbie was fortunate enough to attend the “Format and Idea Generation” workshop presented by BAFTA award winning CBBC Producer Nick Hopkins. Held over 2 days in the stunning offices of Screen NSW (it really is one of the best views in Sydney) they discussed and debated formats and participated in a number of [...]