"Witch & the Baby" Winner at Flatpack Festival

Many congratulations to Escapee Evgenia Golubeva, whose short film The Witch & the Baby has recently won the Audience Choice Award at the Nenagh Children's Film Festival.

Evgenia studied with us on our animation short course, and has since forged a career as an independent film-maker, entering her animated films in festivals around the world and winning international prizes for her work.  Evgenia is a writer at Walt Disney Animation, where she brings her talent as an animator and storyteller to the commercial world of TV animation.

The "Witch & the Baby"
Trailer "The Witch & the Baby" from Evgenia Golubeva on Vimeo.

Evgenia Golubeva

"The Witch & the Baby" is a story about a witch who needs a baby for a spell to make her young again.  But when she brings home an infant princess, things don't go precisely to plan.

Festival Success
"The Witch & the Baby" has won a number of awards, including the Colour Box Audience Award at the Flatpack Festival.  It also won

Official site
You can see more about the film at the Official Site here. https://evgeniagolubeva.com/The-Witch-and-The-Baby

Creative Talent
Escape Studios has long been a leading source of talent for the UK's visual effects industry, and our students are now creating original animated content. Evgenia's career shows how technical skill can be combined with creativity to create memorable stories and characters.

Film-Making at Escape Studios
Our short course and undergraduate animators are creating fresh and original content, telling stories and making their own films, and winning awards in international competitions.

To see more of Evgenia's work, including a preview of her Annecy-selected film "I Want to Live in the Zoo", follow this link.

The Escape Studios Animation Blog offers a personal view on the art of animation and visual effects. To find out more about our new BA/MArt, now recruiting for September 2020, follow this link.  To apply, visit the offical page here.