ANIMA ENTERTAINMENT is a UK based versatile Creative Development Hub and Production Studio helping to build long-term sustainable careers in the creative industries and focused on producing commercial scripted genre projects and documentaries for global audiences.
At ANIMA we care about the future of the industry and with our Creative Development Hub we will work with various partners on a selection of initiatives to help create more sustainable careers in the UK. We are a full service studio helping from initial idea all the way through to the projects release and marketing. We specialise in talent and project development, packaging projects to find funding and go into production with our hands on producers and are there through the whole process of making and selling/marketing the projects. With a focus on commercial genre projects and documentaries for global audiences, we are dedicated to supporting and nurturing stories and talent, particularly from underrepresented communities. Whether you are a newcomer looking to break into the industry or you are looking to expand your skills/knowledge, we offer mentoring schemes, shadowing, one to one sessions and much more. We are human first and want to foster long-term relationships to maintain the highest level of quality and inclusion, empowering the creative expression of everyone we work with and creating a solid and sustainable infrastructure so we are all better placed to achieve our short and long term goals.
Originally conceived in 2021 with Grierson nominated documentary A SPACE IN TIME, ANIMA ENTERTAINMENT officially launched in 2024 with founders Riccardo Servini and Tim Willrich, under the guidance of Nick Taussig who founded and ran Salon Pictures for a decade. ANIMA was born from a real desire to bring something that is drastically different and needed to the UK independent film Industry. We embrace high concept, hard genre, weird or diverse projects while cultivating and curating open and honest collaborations / partnerships. We are also very interested in cross-media opportunities and with every project we will explore how we can expand the story or subject into another medium, widen it's scope and we very much welcome co-productionsKeep an eye out for multiple projects going into production in 2024.