Team

Director, Writer, Producer
Allison Brownmoore

Allison is a BAFTA nominated film maker with over 20 years experience working on US/UK films and episodic. She combines an eclectic background in design and animation with an unwavering passion for thoughtful storytelling. She is founder of design studio Past Curfew, specialising in design and animation for US/UK high end theatrical feature documentary and episodic. She’s been on juries for D&AD, BAFTA and animation/design panels across film festivals internationally. She has collaborated on twenty four Sundance films and Oscar, Emmy, BAFTA and Grierson award winners. She was design director for Navalny, winner of last years Oscar for Best Documentary. Her hand illustrated award winning short animated film screened at a number of BAFTA and Oscar qualifying films, and was inspired by her autistic son. Allison was most recently a recipient for a directors attachment with Screen Australia’s Enterprise program.
She is a member of BAFTA and DGA and is repped for her directing work in LA with
Alison Mann at Fourth Wall Management.

AWARDS
• Winner, SXSW Excellence in Title Design Film Jury Recognition Award
• Winner, Broadcast Tech Award, Best Title Sequence
• Winner, Best Animation, London Film Awards
• Nominated, BAFTA Craft Award, Title Design
• Nominated, SXSW Excellence in Title Design Film Award
• Winner, Broadcast Tech Award for Best Title Sequence
• Art of The Title’s top ten Women in Title Design
• Winner, SXSW Excellence in Title Design Audience Award
• Nominated, Outstanding Graphic Design and Animation, Cinema Eye Honor Awards.

INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES
• Stash Magazine feature on HBO’s Equal
• Stash Magazine feature on Netflix’s Take Your Pills
• Broadcast Magazine article on HBO’s Equal
• Broadcast Magazine article on Netflix’s Maradona in Mexico
• Broadcast Magazine article on Netflix’s Take Your Pills
• Art of the Title feature on We Are X
• Art of the Title article, Top ten Women in Title Design
• Art of the Title feature on Discovery’s Why We Hate
• 3D World article on International Women’s Day Panel at The Mill
• VFX Voice, on The Creative Imperative

GUEST SPEAKER & JURY APPEARANCES
• Jury President, D&AD Awards, VFX Category
• Juror, BAFTA Craft Awards, Titles and Graphic Identity (x 2 years)
• Juror, Irish Film and Television Awards, VFX Category (x 2 years)
• Panelist with Aesthetica Film Festival, Animated Dreams; Challenging Perspectives
• Panelist with Encounters Film Festival, “Dealing with difficult issues within short film”
• Jury, D&AD Awards, VFX category
• Session Leader, BFI/Synergy Theatre, working with ex-justice system participants in Film/TV
• Finalist Judge, Motionographer Awards (x 3 years)
• Panelist, London Metropolitan University, Film/TV students
• Panelist with Women in VFX event at The Mill
• Juror, Titles and Graphic Identity BAFTA Craft Awards
• Panelist, DOC NYC Masterclass in Design and Animation

EDUCATION & MENTORING
• Mentor, Animated Women’s E-Mentoring Scheme
• Mentor/Participant, Animated Women’s Achieve Programme
• Participant, Women in Film & TV’s Mentorship Scheme
• MA Design Studies, Central Saint Martins School of Art and Design, London
• Beijing International Artist Residency, Platform China, Beijing, China
• Artist Residency, St Norberts Art Centre, Manitoba, Canada
• BA Media and Theatre Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia

PRODUCER – Sally Aitken

Sally is a twice-Emmy nominated director, writer, producer and showrunner of multiple international feature documentaries and series, renown for visually arresting work with compassion and wit. Sally has had two feature documentaries premiere in competition at Sundance (Every Little Thing – “an alluring, hypnotic, and soothing experience that takes your breath away” and Playing with Sharks) described as “extraordinary” “visually stunning, and “enthralling” and at Cannes Film Festival (David Stratton: A Cinematic Life). Sally’s formidable directing slate includes some of the highest rating screen content around the globe including Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles (Amazon Prime, SXSw), A “must-watch” with reviewers “absolutely giddy” with the film’s “vivid and infectious joy”, “revealing insights” and “celebrating the uplifting power of friendship” “delivering surprises and tears”.The Pacific in The Wake of Cook with Sam Neill (Foxtel), Shark Beach with Chris Hemsworth (Nat Geo) and Getting Frank Gehry (BBC, ABC).

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER – George Chignell

George is an Oscar and Emmy nominated producer. She has produced a number of high profile documentaries, working regularly with directors Alex Gibney and Asif Kapadia. She was Head of Production at Passion Pictures for several years, and now runs her own company in UK.
George Chignell is a British producer who has previously served as Head of Television at Passion Pictures. Throughout her distinguished career, she has played a pivotal role in the creation of numerous award-winning films and documentaries.
In 2016, her work on ‘Listen to Me Marlon’ earned her both a Primetime Emmy nomination for Best Documentary and a BAFTA nomination, further cementing her reputation as a leading voice in documentary filmmaking. Most recently, she worked with Universal as a producer on the documentary ‘The Mountain Within Me’. She also produced ‘2073′, directed by Asif Kapadia, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2024.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER – Mark Hughes

Mark spent three seasons on the BBC and HBO series His Dark Materials and was part of the production team that won two BAFTA awards for Best Visual Effects. Since 2023, he has been working at the award-winning animation and design studio, Past Curfew, contributing to documentaries and films for Apple, Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC, Universal, and other major platforms.

COMPOSER – Freya Berkhout

Freya Berkhout is a multi-award winning composer, vocalist, writer and creative technologist based in Los Angeles. She revels in bold, celebratory intersectional feminist and queer narratives and perspectives. Her film scores have screened at festivals around the globe, including Cannes, Warsaw, Tribeca and BFI London Film Festivals. Freya is a graduate of Sydney University and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, where she won the Kenneth B. Myer Award for Exceptional Talent upon graduation. Freya completed a Masters in Computational Art at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2018, receiving the Humanitarian Scholarship.

SCRIPT EDITOR – Erica Harrison

Erica is a multi-AWGIE nominated screenwriter, script producer and script editor. She’s a writer on the comedy series Gold Diggers for the ABC / CBS Studios and is writer and co-creator of Triple Oh!, a queer comedy drama about paramedics that premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival market, won the Luna de Valencia for Best Series at the Valencia International Film Festival, and is streaming on SBS On Demand. Recently, Erica was script editor on Stan’s feature film, Windcatcher. Her comedy adventure feature film Pig Wing Pie is in development with support from Screen NSW and Screen Australia.

EDITOR – Ben Stark BFE
Ben Stark is an award-winning film editor with over two decades of experience shaping documentary features, broadcast TV and long-form storytelling with precision and emotional clarity. He has been nominated for multiple BAFTA and Royal Television Society awards and won the Sundance World Cinema Editing Award for The Summit.

ANIMATOR DIRECTOR – Sylvain Doussa

Sylvain is an exceptionally talented French 2D animator/director, who we’ve been working regularly with for the past eight years. He studied animation at Emile Cohl school in Lyon, France, and specialises in music driven projects with bands and music festivals, and works on motion design and animation for film and episodic.

ANIMATOR – Kevin Smy

With a strong background in traditional animation, Kevin graduated with a First-Class Honours Degree in animation at Norwich University of the arts. Exceptionally creative with an incredible sense of timing, Kevin’s desire to continue to learn and experiment led him to work as a freelance animator and motion graphics artist. In his down time, he is an avid musician and enjoys a little roller derby.

ANIMATOR – Lucie Colborne

Lucie recently graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a first-class honours in animation. She can usually be found sketching or painting, which she blends together to create hand-drawn characters in worlds inspired by both the fantastical and the mundane. When not animating, Lucie enjoys sci-fi films and story writing.

ANIMATIC EDITOR – Simon Phegan

Simon is a senior editor with Australia’s primary investigative program, Date Line. He brings a strong sensibility to his work, is passionate about Queer stories, and with over twenty years experience in film and television is well versed to contribute to these.