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Hannah Lau-Walker

Director
Based in London, UK
Experience

With over ten years of experience within the commercial animation industry, Hannah has worked at indie studios to huge production houses. Animating everything from a laundrette morphing into a beautiful garden to a cow on skates. Since graduating from Central St.Martins, Hannah has developed her 2D animation skills to senior roles and led large animation productions working closely with crew to deliver exceptional work and has expanded into directing short films and commercials.​​

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Hannah is deeply committed to the animation industry, developing community as a founder of She Drew That (established in 2019) collaborating with women and studios across the industry to develop mentoring, workshops and residency projects and resources. She is invested in pushing the scope of animation forward not only by utilising story as a way to connect with an audience but also as a speaker and as a host organising participative sessions in a number of international and UK festivals and outreach programmes to expose a diverse audience to the possibilities of animation.

Awards

2022 WINNER The Depict British Award @ Depict

2022 WINNER Best Mini Short August 2022 @ Short to the Point

Jury

2024 London International Animation Festival

2024 Latin American Design Awards | Animation

2024 The Art Department | Student Animation

2021|2022|2023|2024 Young Animator of the Year UK

2023 BAFTA Cymru Awards | Short Film

2023 Encounters Film Festivals | Depcit Award

2023 Brighton International Animation Festival | Best Student

2022 British Animation Awards | Cutting Edge & Best Factual

Host

2022 - 2024 She Drew That Podcast

2024 In Motion London | Main Stage

2024 In Motion Rotterdam | Main Stage

2024 The Art Department | 'The Show' Stage

2023 In Motion London | 'We just wanna have fun' Panel

2023 RCA Industry Panel | What Now?! Panel

2022 Overlap | She Drew That Panel 

Talks

2023 IMA Festival | Never work a day in your life

2023 Norwich University of the Arts Conference | Creative Evolution

2022 Brighton Animation Club | She Drew That

2022 Festival of Animation Berlin | She Drew That

Panels

2024 London Illustration Fair | Heaven and Hell in Motion

2024 Manchester Animation Festival | Getting into Animation

2024 Raindance | Representation in Animation

2024 Annecy | She Creates Change

2024 The Art Department | Collaboration: From Idea to the Screen

2023 Cardiff Animation Festival Mini: Wellbeing in Animation

Film Programming

2024 In Motion Rotterdam | London

Take Care Out There | Rainbow Shorts | Saucy Selection #2 | Next Gem

2024 The Art Department | Saucy Selection

2023 In Motion London | Made by Women

Teaching & Mentoring

2024 Fall SVA BFA Animation Board of Advisors

2021 | 2022 | 2024 Mentoring Coordinator at She Drew That

2022 | 2024 Mentor at Ravensbourne University

2021 - 2022 Sessional Lecturer at Ravensbourne University

2019 Mentor at Central Saint Martins on MA Character Animation

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