Hello!
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.
Selected Press
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