Indie production partnership based near Brighton, UK

Set up and run by Producer Sam McCarthy and Director Laura Seymour, Open Book has experience producing animation & live action for film, tv, games and music videos. Key to a good production of whatever scale is always good story and working with people we like and respect, plus a keen eye for a strong aesthetic using texture and colour..

Recently completed low budget music video for Brighton based unsigned singer/songwriter Victoria Darby, 'Still' is a stylised live action & animation fusion involving plenty of green screen.. Also the focus of a 'making of' documentary filmed by students from Boundstone Community College in Lancing, as a pilot project championed by the Arts Council and Creative Partnerships.

Open Book represents a whole collection of talented artists from editors to animators, and always works to put together the right person with the right job whether it means managing a team remotely on a low budget animated short or placing a single artist in a studio.

Ever keen to bring people together, Open Book also runs and manages a regular monthly animation screening event in Brighton called Paper Bag. Housed in the Joogleberry Playhouse, the night brings together animated shorts from around the globe based on a theme and live local musicians with the aim to help promote and build the animation & film community in Brighton and maybe even lead to a bigger festival down the line...