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Mick
Elliott
Filmmaker / Claymation
(Sydney, NSW)
Mick Elliott completed a BA (Communications) at Australia’s
Macquarie University in 1993. He has worked variously as a car park
attendant, junk-mail deliverer, lift attendant, cinema usher, marketing
coordinator, film programmer and comic playwright.
In 2001 he joined cable TV kids channel Nickelodeon Australia
as a Writer / Producer. His first job – a promo for the cartoon
Spongebob Squarepants – won Gold Promax Awards in Australia and
Los Angeles.
In August 2003, he was awarded the Australian Promax Rocket
Award for rising talent, and in 2004 he produced, wrote and directed
a series of over 100 interstitial segments for pre-schoolers –
“Play Along With Ollie,” a co-production between the Sesame
Workshop and Nickelodeon starring the first Sesame Muppet created for
exclusively Australia.
He is currently Acting Creative Director for Nickelodeon
Australia.
His previous animated film “Das Bog” –
the claymation adventures of a man terrorised by his own poo –
screened at festivals in Australia and around the world including Switzerland,
Mexico and Sweden.
“After Dolly” is his second stop-motion animated
film, and was produced without the use of film or video tape. To date
it has screened in thirty international film festivals, and won ten
awards. It was entirely self-funded, and is in no way affiliated with
his work at Nickelodeon.
Mick Elliott is not related to Academy Award winning
Australian animator Adam Elliot (Harvey Krumpet), though he very much
admires his work.
Contact Mick Elliott
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