Manchester Animation Festival

Joseph Wallace is a BAFTA nominated director, writer and producer. His work has won awards, received Vimeo Staff Picks and screened at festivals around the world. His acclaimed music video for Sparks led Joseph to create sequences for Edgar Wright’s doc feature The Sparks Brothers which premiered at Sundance and Joseph’s segments were described as ‘dark wonders’ by Guardian’s Mark Kermode. His 2022 short Salvation Has No Name won the Grand Prix at Animage in Brazil and Animario in Spain, was long-listed for both BIFA and BAFTA and received the Jury Special Mention at the Unifrance Prix du Court Metrage at Cannes 2023. Recently, Joseph co-created a puppetry short financed by BFI and has made commercial work for clients such as BBC, Loewe and Adult Swim.