Writing: Tap Tap Tap
Nick and Shufti are concentrating on writing projects
at the moment. Theres a sitcom and two children's
books in the system.
Hopefully a new short also by Oct.

Also looking for any juicy title sequences or
commercial animation projects.

Animation World News Review of Cold Calling

http://mag.awn.com/index.php?ltype=pageone&article_no=3497

New Risky Business Titles page

October 2007

Vic Reeves' Pirates Titles in official selection for BAF 2007

http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/baf/2007/filmdetail.asp?id=7278

Cold Calling - The whole festival film - now online
at BBC Film Network.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/filmnetwork/A23448819

Vic Reeves' Pirates Titles shortlisted for Soho Shorts.

March 2007

Cold Calling officially selected for Annecy !
& Cockney Coppers in the International Panorama !
We are so happy here. Its a double whammy for us
at Annecy and the First time Shufti has ever got a
film into this wonderful festival.

Feb 2007
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Jan 2007

Animating the cgi bits for the
new & brilliant Sally Arthur Short 'A-Z'.

December

Titles delivered for Vic Reeves' Pirates and
they look great ! Watch this space.

October

Working on a new title sequence for

The series is about Pirates and features the very brilliant
Vic Reeves.


The titles are currently in production.

Flimsies has been shortlisted for this years Depict! award at
Bristols Encounters Festival, Nov 2006

Which is great as it has some strong Bristol connections.
The film is voiced by talented local Director Hazel Grian, was
made in Bristol and originally commisioned by BBC Animation Bristol.

See for yourself at the Depict! website and feel free to slip us a vote.

Sept

Working on some new projects - underwraps at the moment.

Cold Calling & Flimsies selected for Encounters Film Festival
Hoorah! Encounters website is HERE

Aug

Cold Calling - our 4.5 min festival short
has been selected for the The Raindance Film Festival,
Hoorah! The Raindance website is HERE

July

Cockney Coppers - Sneaky peek!
Come see our Copper Viral.....

July

Cold Calling - our 4.5 min festival short
has been selected for the Edinburgh Film Festival and
Soho Shorts, we are chuffed.
Its the second year running for Shufti to get into both of these great festivals.

May/June

We have been busy working on our pilot animation
'Cockney Coppers' and various pitches.

Cockney Coppers is to launch soon... but in the meantime here's some pics:

March 06
Cubby Couch BBC3 - Set those videos or stay up late because...
Monday 20th March...Midnight...BBC3's new pilot animation show goes on air.
Included are three new 1min shorts by Shufti - 'Brian, Blind and 'Flimsies'

March 06
Flowerheads goes to MipTv

Feb 06
New Project - We are on R&D at the moment on a couple of new projects....
More to tell later, watch this space.

Dec 05
Hobbies - Hobbies WON at The Royal Television Society Awards.
We are incredibly happy here and it was such a surprise to win.
Many thanks to the RTS judges.

Big thank you's go to Helen Nabarro and Jim Campbell at BBC Animation
for giving us the commission and huge thanks to BBC Talent.

Well done everyone!

Nov 05
Hobbies - Hobbies has been nominated for The Royal Television
Society Awards in the West of England for Network Animation.
We are very chuffed and happy here.

The RTS website here:

Sept 05
The Tooth Faerie selected for The Super Shorts Festival

July 05
Hobbies 'Flimsies' and Brian & Blind delivered to BBC.
Creature Comforts titles delivered to Aardman.
Yippee! everyone happy.

Four Hobbies - has been selected for Edinburgh Film Festival
McLaren Screenings.

Character Designs for NESTA Futurelab.

Developing two new film ideas, hopefully in production
later this year.

Hobbies - Model Bus Collector has been selected
for Nextoons: The Nicktoons Film Festival - (USA)

June 05

Very busy here at Shufti Towers:
1 x 1min Hobbies for BBC (New exciting female character!)
2 x 1min Brian & Blind for BBC
Re Design of Creature Comforts Titles for Aardman
Development of Flowerheads with Aardman

June 05
Four Hobbies - has been selected for The Rushes Soho Shorts Festival

May 05
Four Hobbies - has been awarded Rank 1 in the category
Professional/Animation/TV-Series at Animago 2005.

April 05
Four Hobbies
See 'Four Hobbies' at Animated Encounters, Bristol
and Commonwealth Film Festival, Manchester.

March 05
BBC Hobbies Stream
The BBC are now showing all of the new Hobbies on their animation
website...HERE.

Feb 05
New Illustration Pages....
HERE

Jan 05
Starting on a new animated short 'Cold Calling'.
This is a festival film and will probably be 5 mins.

Aug/Sept 04
Working on Pilot of Flowerheads for Aardman Animation.

Hobbies finished for BBC Bristol/BBC3/BBC Talent.
Webpages here. Launch at BAF in November.

July 04
Nick & Miki working on final 3 Hobbies for BBC3

June 04
Nick's finished directing an animated commercial for
Alka Rapid Crystals for Bayer's. The ad is being made
with Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and is produced by Jane Bolton at Picasso Pictures.

March/April/01/04
Miki Cash & Nick animating the first 3 Hobbies for BBC3

Feb 04
Nick & Pete start work on a short series of animated films based on their film Hobbies. The series is being produced by the
BBC Animation Dept in Bristol for BBC3.

12/01/04
Nick joins Picasso Pictures as a Commercials Director.
See Picasso's site here.

09/01/04
Hobbies Wins! - Blimey, Nick & Pete are very pleased to have won the BBC Talent Animator Award...many thanks to the judges and all those that voted online. See the shortlist here.

Jan 04
Shufti a new animation and film company is launched by
creative director Nick Mackie.

Oct 03
Hobbies - Model Bus Collector a short animated film by Nick Mackie and Pete Avery is shortlisted by BBC Talent

Nov 03
HTV screen The Tooth Faerie. A 5min live action/animation short starring Lou Brealey .Written and directed by Nick Mackie the film was comissioned by UK Film Council, Southwest Screen & HTV.

Nov 03
My Island Life is made for BBC3 and Brief Encounters during the short film festival. Written by Nick Mackie & Pete Avery. Pete stars as 'Hector', a strange man who inhabits a small traffic island.

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