Hello, I’m Dann. Animator, Film Director and Artist from London.
Born twenty-something years ago in a tiny village that could easily be mistaken for a squished fruit fly on a map, I moved to Farnham, Surrey to study BA Animation at the University for the Creative Arts.
It was there in my attic that I found an oil painting of myself. “Perhaps I should nail my soul to the Devil’s altar,” I murmured and in a flash, my soul escaped my body and hurtled towards the painting.
Unfortunately, my soul ended up missing and hitting a near-by armature. And from then on I was transformed into a stop-motion animator.
I was awarded a First Class Honours for my troubles.
Then, after skulking in the shadows of the animation studios at the Royal College of Art in search of a master’s. I escaped victorious and have been released into the mortal realm, a phrase here meaning ‘South London’.
Festivals
2020
AnimSyros International Animation Festival, Greece. 23rd September
Giornate di Cinema Queer, Italy. 15th May
London Short Film Festival, London. 10th January
2019
The Lift-Off Sessions, Online. 13th October
Fringe! Queer Film Fest, London. 12th November
Beer Town Film Festival, Burton upon Trent, UK. 8th June
The Lift-Off Sessions, Online. 17th February.
LGBTQ Shorts Film Festival, Missoula, USA. 11th June
KingstOOn Animation Festival, Kingston, UK. 5th April
2018
CINEVERSATIL, International Short Film Festival LGBTIQ+ , Buenos Aires, Argentina. June
Taichung International Animation Festival, Taiwan. October
B-Movie, Underground and Trash Film Festival, Netherlands. August
Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico. July
Rio Festival de Gênero & Sexualidade no Cinema, Brazil. July
White Elephant Film Festival (Previously Camberley International Festival), UK. June
Cefalù Film Festival, Italy. 1st May
Out & Loud – Pune International Queer Film Festival, India. 6th April
BFI Flare: Revelate, London, 29th – 30th March
2017
Pride Friday Film Festival, Leeds Queer Film Festival, Leeds. 4th August
ARS Independent Festival, Katowice, Poland. 28th September
Flux Screening Series, Hammer Museum, California. 8th October
Sunday Shorts Halloween Special, London. 29th October
Palm Springs International Animation Festival, California. 9th – 11th November
Awards
2018
NOMINATED: Best Student Short Film. Taichung International Animation Festival, Taiwan. October
WINNER: Best UK Film. Camberley International Festival, UK. June
2016
Best Student Film: Nominee; Shortpole IFF, London. Summer
Best Animation: Nominee; Shortpole IFF, London. Summer
Press
2019
‘Another Sky Shares Striking New Stop Motion Visual’, Elevator Magazine
Lock Horns by Dann Parry, Skwigly Animation Showcase, September
Animator Dann Parry Talks About Short Lock Horns, Animation for Adults, 19th September
2017
Interview with The New Current about my film, Birds of a Feather
I move things that can’t move, draw things that don’t exist, and write things that can’t happen.
Please do say hello and check out my film work.