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27 February 2008

Art graduate on winning BAFTA team

The talent behind the scenes

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BAFTA-winning film The Pearce Sisters owed much of its technical success to a former MMU student.

Philip Child, technical director on the winning short animation, is a first-class graduate of MMU's acclaimed Interactive Arts degree course.

While still an undergraduate, Philip won the Lowry/Cosgrove Hall Animators @ Artworks Competition, and was short-listed for a number of prestigious awards including: Future Film Festival (2002) and Ridley Scott awards (2003).

In 2004, he was runner-up of the Dazed and Confused re-creation awards and winner of the Rome Independent film Festival for Best animated short.

After graduating in 2003, Philip joined Aardman Animation, in the CGI Department, where he develops innovative animation techniques, used in a number of adverts including Kellogg's cockerel tractor-drivers.

Hazel, Jones, a lecturer on Interactive Arts, said: "The BAFTA for The Pearce Sisters was well-deserved. Philip is highly talented and we are delighted for him."

The Pearce Sisters, directed and written by Luis cook is an amusingly bleak tale of two weather-lashed old spinsters, who live on a remote and austere strip of coast.

For more about Interactive Arts at MMU, go to www.artdes.mmu.ac.uk/courses/programme/1004