Gary Thomas
Director and Co-founder @Animate Projects
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WORK HISTORY
Director and Co-founder @Animate Projects
Derby, GB
Animate Projects champions experiment in animation.
EDUCATION
Polytechnic of Central London
BA Hons, Media Studies
University of the Arts London
MA, History and Theory of Contemporary Art
SKILLS
ABOUT GARY THOMAS
Cultural worker. I\'m a co-founder and director of Animate Projects, a curatorial and production agency, working at the intersection of film, animation, and the visual arts. I\'m co-Chair of the Stuart Croft Foundation.From 20••••23 I was a Film Programme Manager at the British Council, the UK\'s cultural relations organisation. Initiatives I worked on included Film + Music; Art + Technology; international touring programmes in partnership with BAFTA, Doc Society and the Grierson Awards; and Five Films for Freedom, the global LGBTQI+ campaign in partnership with BFI Flare. I programmed British Film Weeks in China and Vietnam, and screenings for Shanghai International Film Festival and Hanoi International Film Festival. I was the team lead for East Asia, China, and the UK nations and latterly, for the Americas and Wider Europe too. I ran a workshop on animation networks in Cuba, and took a UK immersive tech delegation to South Korea and an film and music heritage delegation to Vietnam.Before that, I worked for Arts Council England\'s national office as a Senior Visual Arts Officer and Head of Moving Image. And before that, I worked for a short time in the music business.I\'ve been an Artist Adviser for Jerwood Arts, an assessor for the Wellcome Trust, and a trustee of UK New Artists, LUX, and National Dance Company of Wales. I used to be a Fellow of the RSA, and helped set up the RSA Heritage Network.
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