Manchester Animation Festival

Baz is a working class, BAFTA-winning writer-director at One6th Animation Studio which he co-founded in 2018 with producer, Ben Jackson. Baz made his directing broadcast debut (MTV2, BBC3) as a student at The Northern Film School before starting his professional career as a runner within London’s advertising and film industries, working for Smoke & Mirrors, Outsider and Stink Films. Baz returned to the animation industry in 2013 as Studio Manager and Producer at Nearly Normal Animation Studio. As producer, his credits included stop-motion work for Disney Junior, before relocating to Manchester where he re-established his creative pursuits through writing, directing, model-making and cinematography. Since co-founding One6th in 2018, Baz has directed multiple stop-motion films and adverts, most notably winning the 2026 BAFTA for British Short Animation with Two Black Boys in Paradise, in addition to nominations at BIFA and The London Critics Circle. With over 35 international awards for his short form work, Baz is now evolving towards long-form animation, continuing his collaboration with Ben and together producing cinematic stop-motion, telling human stories, made by human hands.

Baz Sells is representing the project: Made of Sticks.