Bagging the Oscar nomination

Brown Bag Films, the animation studio that received an Oscar nomination for its short film ‘Give up yer aul sins’, is another of our award winning start-ups.  It continues to go from strength to strength, with a turnover of €9m in 2008. It now employs 55 full-time staff.  In 2009 Brown Bag Films won European Producer of the Year at the 2009 Cartoon Forum and also won an IFTA animation award for their ‘Granny O’Grimm’ alternative fairytale series.

Brown Bag Films are to produce Doc McStuffins, a new 52 episode series for Disney that will be broadcast on US cable TV channel Disney Junior in 2011.