Julia Pott
London, England
Julia Pott graduated from Kingston University in July 2007 with First Class Honors in Illustration and Animation. She is currently signed as a director to Picasso Pictures in Soho.
Her graduating film, My First Crush, has been screened at the South by SouthWest Film Festival, in Harvard Square Massachusetts courtesy of Lumen Eclipse, The Pangea Day Festival in L.A., at the Roundhouse Venue in Camden, and in the May edition of the Future Shorts showreel.
Her achievements include winning the People's Choice Award at the Standing Rock International Film Festival and the Audience Award at the Amsterdam Film Experience Festival and being shortlisted for the the Short Film of the Year 2007 in the Youtube Awards, the British Animation Awards, Exposures Festival, TGNST 20 Greatest Stories Never Told, Anifest and the Maui Internation Film Festival.
She is currently working as a freelance animator from her studio in East London. Her other projects include an animated set for Trinity College in Dublin and is currently working on a music video for the band Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. She has also been commissioned for various illustration projects and has participated in exhibitions in London, the U.S. and Belgium.
Julia Pott's film: My First Crush
