Selection

Screening: Professional Competition 10
United Kingdom 2025
Duration: 04:57
Directed: Martin Pickles
Dialogue Language: English

A hand-drawn comic documentary in which veteran British animator and Oscar-winner Bob Godfrey describes how he got started in Animation and the losses of one era ending and the excitement of a new one beginning. Bob’s narration is taken from an interview he gave in 2006 in his Acme Studio in South London. I Am A Rebel was animated entirely in Flash/Animate and is the successor to an earlier film, What Is Animation? Bob Godfrey MBE (1921-2013) was a much-loved British animator and director, best known for Roobarb (1974) the children’s television series and Henry’s Cat (1983-1993). In 1976 he became the first British recipient of the Oscar for Best Animated Short for his film Great (1975).