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.

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