My films have won several awards, including being nominated for a BAFTA (2024), was featured in the New York Times (26/12/23), won two awards from the science journal Nature (2010, 2016), two Vimeo Staff Picks (2020, 2024), the Best British Film at the London International Animation Festival (2019), The Director's Prize at Athens Video + Film Festival (2024) and nominated for three biennial British Animation Awards (2004, 2020, 2024). I am an animated documentary director whose practice has been instrumental in defining this genre in short form (Annabella Honess-Roe 2014, 2015, 2019, Nea Erlich 2015, Slava Greenberg 2020, 2023, Jez Stewart 2021). As a filmmaker my interest is in collaborative animation practice. I have worked with a variety of groups, from machinists in a knicker factory, to microbiologists in a laboratory. I encourage collaborators to claim space inside the frame, and we work together to find a way to do this. The subjects I have made work about have ranged from competitive sweet pea growing, to archaeology, neuroscience, HIV/AIDs, and my own experience of having twins. With all the communities I have worked with my process begins with conversation and connection. I am interested in hidden and overlooked stories and communities, especially those marginalised by gender, age, socio-economic status, visual accessibility, and geography. Having a sense of playfulness and humour is important to my practice, often conveyed through the materiality used in the work. I work with animation because no one ever finds it intimidating, and yet it can convey complex ideas to a wide audience in an engaging way. I love that my work straddles many different fields and yet fits neatly into none of them.