Manchester Animation Festival

Martin Pope is joint CEO and co-founder of Magic Light Pictures where, with Michael Rose, he has produced Oscar nominated, Bafta and Int’l Emmy winning films including The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, The Snail and the Whale and others from the work of Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, as well as Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, and series including Pip & Posy. Other productions include EFA Animated Feature winner Chico & Rita as well as double Emmy winner The Velveteen Rabbit. Magic Light’s latest series Zog has recently launched on CBeebies, while The Baddies will be on BBC One this Christmas. Martin is Vice President of Europe’s leading producer training and networking organisation, ACE Producers.