The Bearded Trio

New MD For The Award Winning Animation Studio, Aardman The award winning animation studio, Aardman have a new MD.  One of my favourite studios that has brought us delights such as Morph, Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep have a new person in charge.  Aardman studios have close ties with Dreamworks and have produced some wonderful movies together over the years.  Sean Clarke will take up the role and has been with the company for over 20 years.  Here's the full press release: Aardman, the multi-award-winning, independent animation studio, has today (Thursday 19th September) announced the successor to David Sproxton, who is stepping back from the MD role after 43 years at the helm of the organisation. The role is to be taken up by Sean Clarke, who has been at the company for over 20 years and headed up the International Rights and Marketing department for over a decade. Famous worldwide for its unique and entertaining productions, Aardman is home to mu...

Director’s Note With the Army as his answer to a slew of college rejection letters, my older brother shipped off to the Middle East in 1991.  Our family huddled around the TV watching dust-clouded news feeds of U.S. forces as they drove Saddam out of Kuwait.  After a speedy victory, my brother came home with his arms and legs and sense of humor intact.  He told us war was boring and hotter than hell, but another story seemed to vibrate behind his pale eyes.  Ground combat lasted a mere 100 hours, but it had altered him.  Like my uncle who fought in Vietnam, and my grandfather who flew in WWII, my brother would never talk about it.  It became the unspoken space between us. In 2013, I was introduced to “Thank You for Your Service” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Finkel.  The book seemed to explore all that my brother had left unsaid.  It follows the Army’s 2 nd Battalion, 16 th Infantry Regiment, home from Iraq, back to Topeka, Ka...